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• Thursday, November 8, 2007 08:10 AM

  Re: "What color is the sky in the Mac Utopia?"

  "I don't have anything against Macs. You prefer Macs, that's fine, you'll get no static from me, they are good computers. But what's with this parallel fantasy land where Macheads seem to live? It's a Mac Utopia where PC's crash twice a day, are constantly jammed with viruses and spyware, and annoy their users with an interface that is terribly counterintuitive and difficult to use. This puzzles me, because I use PC's for many hours every day, and I can testify that they rarely crash, can be kept clean of malware with a few basic precautions, and that Windows is simple to use, provided you know how to look at things and click on them."

  Indeed. It is very strange but it seems to be an extension of the "Macs just work" propaganda which implies that PCs don't "just work" but, in reality, PCs "just work" fine. Of course they probably realize this so they add on the crazed nonsense like implying that one has to be smarter to use a Mac or that if you don't use one you are losing out on an opportunity for self improvement or that you haven't joined the 21st century or some other such foolishness.

  The one that really got me was the guy/gal who wrote awhile back that he/she had drifted away from a friend because the friend used a PC and that he/she had started to judge people and potential friends based on which computer they own/ue. The person admitted that he/she is a Mac Kool-aid drinker but...wow!...I mean that's Jim Jones level of Kool-aid drinking.

  —KStone Read KStone's other letters
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