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* [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap]]: the Objective-C programming language was seen as a strange little beast (as well as an also-ran to the much more popular C++) by most programmers and got almost no traction at all outside the [[Next]] or Mac world... until the iPhone came along.
* [[Sacred Cow]]: The Mac has gotten this treatment (and arguably still does) back in the day in that any sort of criticism of the Mac (or simply preferring Windows over Mac) is bound to get you burned to a crisp. This is less frequent today due to the resurgence of Apple as well as some of the controversies Apple has been involved in as a new-found [[Mega Corp]] and all, but you can still find some very [[Defensive Fans]] in some areas.
* [[Viewers Areare Morons]]: Apple is often accused of designing products with this mentality. Justified in that [http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Do_It.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=do%20it some of their testers are actually of the moronic type].
** And yet their targeting the "Moron" demographic was what allowed them to get so big in the first place...make that of what you will.