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Feel like dating those people who proudly slap Apple’s bumper stickers on their windshield? Well, now you can, thanks to an exclusive new service dedicated to connecting Apple fans searching for a little bit of love. Dubbed Cupidtino.com, the service has been in closed beta over a month, but it has finally moved into open beta yesterday.

Stalkers, hold your horses right there – this site is exclusive so if you’re not member of the club (read: run one of Apple’s platforms), you won’t be allowed past the homepage. Designed and created in California, as the creators put it, the site is “attractive, minimal, and cool,” they say and add it requires “no Flash.” Unlike other dating sites, your profile on Cupidtino includes the geeky stuff like your list of gadgets, how you switched to a Mac, your favorite apps, music, and movies, and more.

If you fancy someone, you can “Mac” her or him (that’s their poke replacement), or have the site find the nearest Apple store between both of you – your perfect dating venue. You can also search Cupidtino’s user base which was fairly miniscule at press time. Something tells me this is about to change pretty soon as Mac-minded people flock to the site to search for their match. Needless to say, the majority of the profiles look awesome. What, you didn’t know that Apple fans are beautiful people?

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Christian’s Opinion

Despite the popular notion, Mac people are generaly pretty easy-going, open-minded, and nice-to-talk-to individuals. In fact, of all the Mac fans I know, the die-hards that you might call fanboys (or fangirls) are in minority. It’s also commonly accepted that Apple users are the creative types who think outside the box, although that’s not to say that PC fellows aren’t. Various marketing studies also paint the Apple nation as an above-the-average middle-class spanning wide age ranges, with an emphasis on the younger folks and first-time workers. Heck, who wouldn’t like to date young and hype dudes and chicks, even if they have the Apple logo tattooed on their lower back?

Joking aside, this service should take off in an instant, especially if they keep perfecting it and adding new social capabilities like the community-building tools. Considering there’s been no such thing as the social network for Apple users, I’m glad someone has filled the void with a dating site. Nevertheless, I’m still waiting for my Facebook for Apple folks, a site that would gather Mac people’s profiles on one place, with news, tips, forums, reviews, community-driven advice, and more.