It's just people, innit? You get exactly the same stuff from windows users if you want to switch to mac. He's right, it's nothing to do with computers at all, it's just group mentality that's at play here. And you only get to hear the noisy ones - all the folk that are happy with their own choice of computer/OS and are happy with whatever anyone else wants to use will never get heard, because they're too busy getting on with it to bother saying anything.
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#479843 - 11/29/0907:58 AMRe: "I'm not a Mac!" -Mike Doyle
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While there's always going to be fringe elements responding to blogs like his -- which basically slams Apple and Steve Jobs at the outset, so why wouldn't you be expecting posts that disagree with you? -- I actually had to read through part 3 of his "controversial journey" to get to a reply I thought was disrespectful ...
Most of them were cogent and fairly well-reasoned -- I think he just has a problem with people disagreeing with him in general ...
#479861 - 11/29/0911:36 AMRe: "I'm not a Mac!" -Mike Doyle
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I didn't think many people hate the "other side" like this any more. I don't hate Windows users. I just hate using Windows. My dad still chooses to use Windows. I don't hate him because of it. My take on it is, 90% of the people still don't know what they are missing with Macs. Most buy Windows OS computers because they can't afford a Mac.
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#479891 - 11/29/0901:21 PMRe: "I'm not a Mac!" -Mike Doyle
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six_of_one
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Everything he's done software-wise on his Mac basically disproves that such onerous control exists ... if it did, how does all that non-Apple software even run on his Mac?
I get the impression he's mainly pissed that Apple updates don't support his jailbroken iPhone ...
#479899 - 11/29/0901:47 PMRe: "I'm not a Mac!" -Mike Doyle
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Carp, Apple does have control of our computing life. We have to press the power button to turn it on. That's something we must do and that's control that we just must not put up with.
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#479901 - 11/29/0901:53 PMRe: "I'm not a Mac!" -Mike Doyle
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There is some truth to the idea that Apple controls the hardware we use. If you're running Windows or Linux you can buy hardware from a slew of computer manufacturers, but if you want to run OS X, you have to use an Apple product--peace be unto the hackintoshers. On the other hand, no one needs a web site to reveal that fact.
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