Fanboy Fight: How One Apple/Android Argument Ended In A Stabbing
from the stop-it dept
Every one of us has already had this fight at some point: Apple or Android? The two dominant players in the mobile space carry with them very loyal fanbases who, for some reason, like to spar off with one another over whose tech-daddy could beat up the other. The companies compete with the same level of petty at times, which doesn't help. Apple screws around with text messages from Android users, Android pokes back at Apple over the controlling hand it has in its app store, and the two companies spend a great deal of time in legal battles because of course they do. C'mon, guys, can't we all just spend our time pointing and laughing at Windows Mobile?
Apparently not, considering the report that one recent Android/Apple argument concluded with both combatants stabbing the hell out of each other with broken glasses.
Tulsa’s Channel 8 reports that police were called to a local apartment complex at around 1:00am on the morning of April 17 to investigate at least one report of a bloody person wandering around the parking lot. According to the Tulsa World, police found roommates Jiro Mendez and Elias Ecevo each in some distress—Mendez was the man in the parking lot and was covered in scratches and wounds, while Ecevo, similarly wounded, apparently had stayed inside their apartment.Yeah, no kidding. I have my brand loyalty, too, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't feel so offended at a roommate's opinion of my phone that I felt I had to avenge the inanimate object by getting all stabby. Both men ended up getting arrested and were sent to the hospital to have their wounds treated. In a perfect world, they would be laid up next to each other, Instagram-selfying from their beds with comments about how awesome the pictures from their respective phones looked.
The World indicates that Mendez told police that the wounds resulted from an argument between the roommates, which started over which roommate had the better smartphone—Apple or Android—and ended with both roommates allegedly stabbing each other with broken glass bottles, and Ecevo allegedly stealing Mendez’s car (police found the car near the apartment, with blood in the interior). Perhaps unsurprisingly, alcohol appears to have been a factor in the fight.
Either way, I'm guessing there might be changes to their lease coming shortly.
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They were both wrong
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Hmmm
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The default, factory apps are better than then ad-supported crapware in the Apple Store/Google Play.
And Windows Phone users aren't stupid enough to get into knife fights.
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That's only because the Windblows store doesn't have any indie developers making apps for the platform. Mainly because of the miniscule user base.
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With broken glasses?
Though in seriousness, I thinks it's pretty stupid to get into a fight over which phone is better. (I am not a fanboy of cellphones and only really use them as originally intended: to call someone)
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That's sarcasm for anyone that missed it. Since the popular thing to do is blame the items instead of the idiots responsible that say "insert item here" made me do it
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Apple or Android?
I'm glad to say, I didn't.
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I love fanboy wars
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Why all the hate?
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It's straight up insanity, but one that is endemic to the human condition.
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The fight wasn't about whether Apple or Android is better- the fight was about someone getting their taste insulted or being called "wrong".
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Not everyone
I've never had this fight, although I've seen plenty of them. My identity has nothing to do with my choice of mobile platform, so I couldn't care less what other people use.
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Siri told him to do it
with Siri delivering instructions... to KILL!
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No crapware. (Very little ware of any kind, to be honest.)
No camera, so no need to worry about who takes the better pictures.
And little danger -- even with alcohol -- of a phone-related discussion escalating to assault.
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Sure.. uintil somebody makes fun of you for carrying a flipphone.
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But do *their* phones have an awesome Chewbacca ringtone? I think not.
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Who started it?
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Most Apple fans like getting stabbed....
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There's your Windows Phone user.
But seriously I'm not buying the fanboy angle as a majority cause.
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Flip phones RULE!
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STUPID!
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