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Is this worth reading? Whenever I see marco.org I think to myself: "Apple love, Google hate as usual" and move on.

Yes, it's true his fanboism shows through when you see him call Google+, a service with 400 million active users, a "failure." If that's failure, then please let me fail.

It wouldn't be a failure for you or me. Google started out with far more active users than that, so they have to be judged on a different basis. They shut off other services to force those users into G+, and significant numbers of those users posted a couple of times and then never looked at G+ again. Something about Google's actions turned them from regular G-Reader users into regular users of non-Google services. That smells like failure.

If you think Marco is a particularly rabid fanboi, congratulations on your sheltered and privileged life. Apple fanbois get much worse than that.

>> If you think Marco is a particularly rabid fanboi, congratulations on your sheltered and privileged life. Apple fanbois get much worse than that.

I'm not a fan of Marco, but you're right. If Marco really was a rabid fanboi, more than half of his blog would be pointless claim chowder posts.

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