>I hear this all the time, and agreed, most of us really don't care or even notice the issues they always seem to be talking about.

A fan simply prefers one phone more than the other. A fanboy decrees that the phone they prefer is objectively better than other types of phones. The fanboy, faced with the fact that millions of people seem to prefer a phone he claims is objectively worse, is thus forced to explain this disconnect. And what they typically resort to is, "You know your phone is bad and you just ignore because you view it as a status symbol."