Boy, do I wish that were true. Windows users have more idiots based on sheer numbers alone (it's to be expected), but we do have our share spectacularly stupid people...
Stalin, asking a question like that in a place like this is like setting a truck full of matches in the middle of a crowd of pyromaniacs.
Originally posted by GenghisK
I'd rather say the former Amiga vs Atari, which would be fairer for that past and glorious age
Originally posted by ejday
Tribalism. Man, this is sad on so many levels, yet it's the way the world works. Let me preface this by saying I use both. I've used 95 and 98, and now 2000 and NT at work. This is why I've bothered to invest in a Mac at home...
That attitude from WinTel victims is what actually drove a lot of Mac users into evangelizing the platform. Way, way back in DOS, when C: prompts made every sipdhit think he was a programmer, Mac users were bombarded with "Mac, huh? Well I use a real computer..." Meanwhile, the WinTel victims were wrapping themselves around the machine instead of using an interface that conformed to the personality using it.
Face it, you platform nerds, a computer is a machine -- and a Mac is, in fact, a PC. It just doesn't use the WinTel platform.
If we were all going to base our decisions on what's the most efficient tool for the sake of the task, we'd all be using the exact same thing. Take cars, for instance. We'd all be driving the same model Honda Civic hatchback (in primer gray) because it gets great milage, it can haul groceries, parts are everywhere, and nobody would be bothered by headlights in their rear-view. But lo and behold, one jerk decides to paint his Civic red and put covers over the seats because he spends so much time in his car that he's tired of looking at the same thing every day. Whoa.
Individuality.
That's basically where the Mac started. With an interface that conformed to the user instead of the other way around. Once the Mac had a following, it wasn't going anywhere. Was it a niche? Sure. Will it replace windows? Nope. And thank goodness. Keep the disgruntled virus writers in the WinTel world. Who cares if it has 10,000 games when 9,990 of them suck? I'm willing to shell out the extra $10 for the few that don't to be ported to my quaint, lil' platform.
You work for Microsoft, right? Propaganda? Ethically compromised Monopoly? Fraud? How about:
* Stung by Apple's switch campaign, they hired and faked the other way around.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-961994.html?tag=fd_top_6
* In 1998, The Los Angeles Times reported that during its antitrust trials, Microsoft hired PR firms to flood newspapers with fake letters of support, bearing ordinary individuals' names but actually written by Microsoft PR staff. Payments were funneled through Microsoft's main PR agency so that the checks couldn't be traced.
* During the antitrust trial, Microsoft attempted to prove the inseparability of Windows and Internet Explorer by showing the judge a video. There was only one problem: The government's lawyer noticed that as the tape rolled on, the number of icons on the desktop kept changing. Microsoft sheepishly admitted to having spliced together footage from different computers to make its point.
Windows. Gosh, the word just makes your skin crawl, doesn't it? Especially the arrogant, conceited, elitist Windows users that support this backward platform.
...Oh well, I guess there are a whole lotta cockroaches per human, aren't there? Guess we should just hand the planet over to the cockroaches.
Think about it.
Point? You had a point in that anti-Mac diatribe? A valid point? A complete quote tagged with this anemic attempt at an ironic defense somehow proves your point? I don't know what you're smoking but it isn't healthy.
Ohhhh! Sorry, sorry, my bad. I get it now: the Mac is okay, but the user sucks. Oh, and the marketing of that "decent" machine sucks, too (it's all lies, as you authoritatively instructed, right?). If only the Mac could exist in vacuum...Originally posted by Akka
Well, my post did not contained ANY anti-Mac diatribe. It contained anti-Mac users diatribe, saying that what make them tiresome is their propension to arrogantly estimate themselve the elite, while the rest of people (read : PC users) are just a poor herd of misinformed sheeps slave to the Wintel cartel.
The fact that you answered with such zeal while completely missing the point, just rushing in the battle to protect the Holy Apple machine, is a good example of this behavior.
And when I protest this prejudice, it proves your point...? When you make hearsay references to "our" distortions... but I can point to specific examples of Microsoft misleading people, I'm being unreasonable. Your lack of logic is... bringing a smile to my face.
Originally posted by ejday
Ohhhh! Sorry, sorry, my bad. I get it now: the Mac is okay, but the user sucks. Oh, and the marketing of that "decent" machine sucks, too (it's all lies, as you authoritatively instructed, right?). If only the Mac could exist in vacuum...
So, to reiterate your statement: I, as Mac user, suck...
"rushing in the battle to protect the Holy Apple machine"? Obviously, you didn't read the post all the way through. It was about tribalism, prejudice and perspective. Go back and re-read it, rain man.
It is now apparent that you are a pathological passive-aggressive zealot, fundamentally blinded by your own platform allegiance. It is textbook transference, less ironic than it is sad.
If you were the average WinTel user, I'd say it's no wonder the "switch" campaign seems to be doing so well. Fortunately, I know better. There's plenty of smart, decent PC users that know a computer is a computer, a user is a user. Unfortunately, you're not among them. Next time, bolt your feet to the floor before opening your mouth.
