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An Apple evangelist, also known as Mac(intosh) evangelist, Mac advocate or Apple fanboy aka a idiot for spending £2,000 on a pointless device that doesnt do anything that a standered windows pc cant do for more than half the price yay. is a promoter of Apple products such as the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.

The term "software evangelist" was coined by Mike Murray of the Macintosh division.^[1] Apple's first evangelist was Mike Boich, a member of the original Macintosh development team.^[2] Alain Rossmann succeeded him. Boich and Rossman later took part in the founding of Radius together.

The most well-known Apple evangelist is ex-Apple-employee Guy Kawasaki. Kawasaki is credited as being one of the first to use evangelistic methods to promote a computer brand through a blog. Apple formerly had a "Why Mac?" evangelist site [1]. The page no longer exists, but the company ran Get a Mac, which gave numerous reasons why "PC users" should switch to Macs. Several third-parties still host and maintain Apple evangelism websites.

Many Apple evangelists are employees of Apple whose job is to promote Apple products primarily by working with third-party developers.^{[citation needed]}

In the early days of the Macintosh computer, the primary function of an evangelist was to convince software developers to write software products for the Macintosh. When software developers need help from within Apple, evangelists will often act as go-betweens, helping the developers to find the right people at Apple to talk to.

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Mac|Life Magazine – Mac|Life, formerly MacAddict, which at one time hosted a Mac advocacy page
MacKiDo – Now defunct Apple advocacy site
iGeek – The new MacKiDo
CultofMac.com – One of the original Mac evangelistic sites
MacZealot.com – Mac evangelist site, focusing on users migrating from Windows
The Unofficial Apple Weblog – One of the leading 'all things Apple' technology evangelist sites.
iKnow Club – Student's Apple evangelist organization, operates in European countries

[1] Guy Kawasaki, The Macintosh Way, p2.

[2] ttp://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Signing_Party.txt&characters=Mike%20Boich&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium

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-An '''Apple evangelist''', also known as '''Mac(intosh) evangelist''', '''Mac advocate''' or '''Apple fanboy''' aka a idiot for spending £2,000 on a pointless device that doesnt do anything that a standered pc cant do for more than half the price yay. is a promoter of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] products such as the [[Macintosh]], the [[iPod]], the [[iPhone]] and the [[iPad]].
+An '''Apple evangelist''', also known as '''Mac(intosh) evangelist''', '''Mac advocate''' or '''Apple fanboy''' aka a idiot for spending £2,000 on a pointless device that doesnt do anything that a standered windows pc cant do for more than half the price yay. is a promoter of [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] products such as the [[Macintosh]], the [[iPod]], the [[iPhone]] and the [[iPad]].
 The term "software evangelist" was coined by Mike Murray of the Macintosh division.<ref>[[Guy Kawasaki]], ''[[The Macintosh Way]]'', p2.</ref> Apple's first evangelist was [[Mike Boich]], a member of the [[:Template:Original Macintosh Design Team|original Macintosh development team]].<ref>http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Signing_Party.txt&characters=Mike%20Boich&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium</ref> [[Alain Rossmann]] succeeded him. Boich and Rossman later took part in the founding of [[Radius (computer)|Radius]] together.

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