Comments on: Google Fanboys At G1 Launch http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/09/24/google-fanboys-at-g1-launch/ Reporting the effects of Technology on the Media and Communications. Sun, 16 May 2010 10:04:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Mike Slocombe http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/09/24/google-fanboys-at-g1-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-70838 Mike Slocombe Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:15:20 +0000 http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/09/24/google-fanboys-at-g1-launch/#comment-70838 To be honest, I don't think they were fanboys at all - just a bunch of journos scrambling to get the all-important big press photos of the launch. If Id been there I probably would have (reluctantly) jumped off my seat because I would have realised that this was one of the photos rival media outlets would be using. If you want to see real fanboy conduct - high fiving, endless over-enthusiastic applause for the most microscopic of improvements and ridiculous reverence of the speaker - then get yourself down to the next Apple launch. Those people scare me. To be honest, I don’t think they were fanboys at all – just a bunch of journos scrambling to get the all-important big press photos of the launch.

If Id been there I probably would have (reluctantly) jumped off my seat because I would have realised that this was one of the photos rival media outlets would be using.

If you want to see real fanboy conduct – high fiving, endless over-enthusiastic applause for the most microscopic of improvements and ridiculous reverence of the speaker – then get yourself down to the next Apple launch.

Those people scare me.

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