Lessley Anderson takes a look at the culture of the phone fans. "That is, the kind of crazily obsessed tech enthusiast who appears to have become unhinged somewhere between peeling off his smartphone's screen protector and making his 457th comment on Android Central. He seems to love - as in, romantically love - his phone. He explodes with rage when somebody says anything less than glowingly positive about it," she writes.
Phone fans seem like any other fan-subculture, but they are different because the objects of their adoration are not niche. Phones are so much a part of modern-day living that it is not surprising that some of us form deep attachments that go to the levels of fixation with them.
Another aspect of this fandom is that it's more than the device itself, it's about the companies that make them. Anderson looks at fanboys across brands: an IT manager at a non-profit who is a Microsoft phone fanatic; an ex-Flash developer whose hatred for Apple turned into a near-religious obsession with Google and the Android OS; and several others.
And where there is obsession, violence is just round the corner. Aaron Baker, a phone enthusiast who reviews smartphones on a Youtube channel, received death threats because he had not mentioned the fact that an LG phone did not have a cable that connected it to the TV, while a Samsung phone did.
TheVerge.org
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