I would disagree that the problem is the cultists - unless you mean the other cults and the self appointed cult-busters.
Interesting about the blog we are talking about. I thought it was a discussion about the reception tragedy that iPhone had - and that fact wasn’t disputed. His extrapolations, however, did appear suspect.
Anyway...I appreciate swordmakers work. He keeps me up to date on Mac news, and let’s me know when to do software upgrades and such. It is too bad that his threads cause so many such angst.
“Cult busters” are just members of other cults. There are clearly identifiable Mac, MS, and ‘Nix cults on FR; and they turn tech threads into flame wars attacking each other and anybody they think might be in one of the other cults.
I think he’s funny. He’s very addicted to a world view where Apple is a victim of evil pressers spreading “FUD” when reality is Apple is a company like any other, and they do good things and bad things like any other, and people can point out the things Apple has screwed up without it being FUD. His threads cause angst because that’s what he wants, he constantly throws insults, and then whines that it’s the other cults. It’s all part of that persecution complex.