This article has been on the street for about a week, and I had heard that a lot of Mac users were up in arms about it. Tonight I was catching up on some blogs and read the article. What I read about blew my socks off. No wonder the Mac crowd went a little wacko on the comments that were written.
I have had my Mac now about 7 or 8 months it sits on my desk but I hardly use it. I did go one week straight as part of a commitment I made to my show listeners. I’ll be honest it’s a computer and just like the Windows machine sitting in front of me it’s also just a computer.
The 100 or so Mac programs I have downloaded installed and tried have not been that compelling at least not compelling enough to switch permanently. Everyone says macs are the great enablers allowing you to do thing easier than a PC I’m not drinking the koolaid!
Hate to say this but I think some of the Mac users ought to sit down and work for a week straight on a PC and they might realize that the operating system are not that different. The only thing that took me a day or so to figure out was how to install programs on the mac in a way that they would clean up after themselves when removed. Otherwise no real stretch.
I don’t need to switch because I use whatever is convenient at the time, and until something really wows me I will be plugging away on my Windows based PC to get work done including graphics and video which I have superior tools to edit and create with already. [russellbeattie.com]
Mac products are definitely less convient, as design and look pass before the ease of use.
Typically, with my Mighty Mouse that is made of one plastic part and able to left, right and middle click, once out of twice, I left click instead of rightclicking, because that stupid device could not determine what click I wanted to perform.
Plus, the scroll is so sensible it rolls everytime I want to open a link in a new tab or close a tab by middleclicking on it.
Apple is also anti open source, super propietary oriented and anti ecologic.
Fuck Mac, long live PC!
I use my ibook, and also am a MCSA. I work on a pc network and have a pc at home but am on my ibook most of the time at home. It’s not a matter of what I like better, to be honest, neither. I can never get over this argument, what is better, what isn’t and who has the right to decide. It’s boils down to what you are comfortable with, and what is more productive. There are things that I can only do on a pc, I do them there, there are things that I can only do on a mac, or that work better, I do them there. Why does it have to be either or? I like both, both have ups and downs. Remember those horrible mac commercials, that girl who was working on her term paper and the pc kept beeping at her, and she was a total airhead. I totally submitted my story “I’m a MCSA and I use a mac” but Apple didn’t buy it…I should write a article and do my +’s and -‘s. Hmmm :)
I like both!!
After running several blogs for about 4 years now I can tell you that I’d take a huge spike intrafic ANYTIME!!!
I have numbers to prove that if I have an extra 5000 visitors above the normal, a certain percent of the visitors that agee with you or read other articles you’ve written will stay with you.
Anyone that knows anything about blogs with tell you, any PR is good PR, get traffic to the site no matter how and you will keep a certain percent EVERYTIME.
I tease Todd all the time about how he mentions Scoble every other day on his blog, or Winer, or any of the other big bloggers. If any of them mention the article on their weblogs, the traffic Todd gets is huge and some will always stay here. Never underestimate the power of traffic, it’s the Holy Grail of blogs.
Why would someone post something on a little nothing blog for traffic? Honestly? I don’t understand what the reasoning behind a one time spike in traffic would do other than test the server for a good /.’ing. It’s obvious that the google ads were mostlyl about M$, and nothing for the macheads would ever click on, so extra ad revenue couldn’t have been the motive.
I’m with Todd on this one. Use the tools that you need and are more productive with.
Todd,
There was only one reason why that article was written, for blog traffic. It had some of the stupidest arguments ever in it. Even your buddy Scoble mentioned it missed a few concepts. He got his day in the sun and then cut off comments and enjoys the hits on his website.
You could do the same thing Todd, just write an article that you’ve created the first verifiable and self-reproducing Mac virus, you’d have more traffic here then your server could bear.
Thats that bad part about blogs, the most outragous BS gets the traffic and the links.