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In Reply to: RE: Steve Jobs with a Gyrodec? posted by hella356 on November 05, 2009 at 10:46:34
I've used both kinds of operating systems, and Apple is much easier. When the stuff was new, a lot of people "took sides" primarily because experience with the products was limited and a lot of people wanted a good one and were asking around about what to buy.
Kind of like when the Panasonic turntables were discovered here. No one is going to spend hundreds or thousands on a product and then say it is not, "the best".
When you think about it, what you are really buying with a computer purchase is the operating system. Most people now understand where they shake out in performance, so not too much debate about any questions of what to buy.
I'm an architect but in our small firm I also function as the IT dept. We use both Windows and Mac. Personally, I find Windows easier to use but it's a personal preference whichever someone likes better, I think. What I was getting at is the smug, "I'm special because I use a Mac" attitude I get from almost every Mac user I meet, and their insistance that Macs are essentially infalible and that Apple invented every electronic device while everyone else copied them. I do think Apple makes good products but their customers can be insufferable. Really, either platform can do pretty much anything anyone would want a computer to do.
However, I'm always glad to see anyone digging quality audio gear and thumbs-up to Jobs on that account. But, I'd get the same amount of enjoyment from seeing Bill Gates with that system. Or anyone else.
Bill Gates does not strike me as the kind of guy that would buy a HiFi anything...
off topic reply, but whatever.
Happiness is a clean record, and warm tubes!
Sounds like you are running into a bunch of drag people. Engineers perhaps? They sound like how people say Yankee fans act, another fairly unpopular group outside of the believers.
probably I don't hang enough of the computer world to say much about the situation. I do know a little about the Apple corporation and they certainly treat their employees well. (Brother in law works there, meetings at the Olympics, Paris, Hawaii. I get a memo for Christmas at my job. )
I never met anyone that liked PC better. I suppose they have gotten past all that backslash stuff by now. Is it also now all point and click like the Apple product, or have they gone in a different direction? ? PC used to be a pain to start and close, compared to the Apple operating systems where it was just click to off or on.
"What I was getting at is the smug, "I'm special because I use a Mac" attitude I get from almost every Mac user I meet..."It seems you are painting with a pretty broad brush there. How do you know if someone is a Mac user when you meet them? Do they have stars on their bellies like Star Belly Sneetches?
I would suggest the smug users you meet (and I know what you are talking about) happen to be the ones who want to get in your face and talk about all things Apple. I'm a relatively happy Mac user, but I don't feel the need to prosthelytize to people who are happy with Windows anymore than I feel the need to prosthelytize about LPs to folks who are happy with CD or MP3.
Edits: 11/06/09
Apple products in a nutshell (hmm, that's a bad metaphor).
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