'The Mac Faithful'
A phrase I'm sick and tired of: "The Mac Faithful."
You see it a lot particularly in the mainstream tech press when referring to Mac users.
It implies religious zealotry, or some kind of cultish enslavement, and God knows Mac users have earned that moniker over the years.
But 2006 is very different from 1996 or 1986, for that matter, and many of the people using Macs aren't "Mac faithful," they're just regular people who happened to buy Macs because they wanted a machine that wasn't going to be plagued by viruses, malware and spyware; or they wanted a computer that looked fun and easy to use; or they wanted something that they might be able to use for making music, movies and editing photos on.
Calling us all "The Mac Faithful" is demeaning and derogatory.