Charlie Brooker has written a nice little piece in the Guardian about the rage that generally builds up when being confronted by smug Mac-owning gimps in their marketing-inspired realm of delusion. Macs have always annoyed me for the simple reason that they’re stubbornly proprietary (I realise Microsoft has the same problem, but as they own 90% of the market it doesn’t actually matter so much). Same reason I hate iPods (I just want to be able to plug and play them, and copy files like they’re just an external drive. Why would you not do that?).
I used to have an Apple back in the old, old days (the 80s) and it was always stubbornly different. It didn’t have a hard drive (everything was on floppy), you couldn’t do anything on it (other than word process badly) and then of course there’s the stupid bloody one-button mouse. I’m all in favour of Thinking Different ™. But Different isn’t always right and if you stubbornly refuse to accept something as a standard just because someone else (who you don’t like) came up with it, then you’re as close-minded as the people you claim to be Different to.
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20070519 at 22:48
Bully McBully
Bully!
20070521 at 21:35
erikcurtis
I use a PC for my computing needs. I also have an iPod. I tend to agree with what you are saying, but I don’t think using hardware you used 20= years ago to back it up.
20070521 at 22:32
laggleton
To be honest, I’m not that much in hatred with Macs, my housemate uses one and it appears Tiger’s a pretty good-looking operating system. The 20 year old IIgs reference was meant to show that Apple’s stubbornness when it comes to proprietary things is nothing new, it’s been an intrinsic streak through the company for it’s whole lifespan. And they still, more than not, persist with annoyances like single-button mice.
Thanks for your comment.