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The most well-known Apple evangelist is ex-Apple-employee page, which gives numerous reasons why, in Apple's opinion, PC users should switch to Macs. Several third-parties still host and maintain Apple evangelism websites. In his book ''Tog on Interface'' (Addison Wesley, 1991), Bruce Tognazzini ("Apple Employee #66") is referred to as ''Human Interface Evangelist'', both on the cover, and in this telling quote from the Preface, which gives the sense of the term:
ZEALOTRY Mac zealots are those advocates whose zeal for the platform can be considered extreme. Of course, depending on the standards of a community any level of zeal can be viewed as extreme, and the term is frequently used interchangingly with " Fanboy " as a derogative description of any Mac advocate by proponents of other computer Platform s. This occurs during agitated operating system advocacy discussions on message boards or some community sites (e.g. Digg.com ), implying that this person's views are to be taken less seriously due to his/her irrational conviction. The term stems from religious Zealots , implying negative aspects of religion such as Dogmatism and irrationality. Zealous mac advocates have been known to verbally abuse computer users who do not embrace the Macintosh platform, which has contributed to this reputation. It should be noted that there is no organized group of Mac zealots that collectively agrees on all Apple topics or the decisions of CEO Steve Jobs . For instance, there is currently somewhat of a schism over the Apple Intel Transition . Intel has long been seen as an enemy of Apple's because the processor manufacturing company has been making its processors for Windows based machines. SEE ALSO
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