Oh, you are so in denial.
I mean, super duper denial.
You talk to any Mac fan and they just love every single product that Apple throws at them.
It’s not that the Mac is any better than Windows, it’s just that people like it better. Windows users don’t have any problem seeing the faults of their platform, which I respect. One of the reasons that I wrote this book is the book helps fix the problems.
Mr. Karp, if you read any Mac related sites, particularly the blogs, you will realize that Mac users aren’t blind to the ills of Apple’s products. Sure, we do love most of the products that Apple “throws” at us. But we don’t pretend that those products are perfect. We’ve just used the other guys products (Microsoft, I’m looking at you), and quite frankly, find that the Mac is better.
Windows users constantly gripe about how Mac users/zealots are “smug” in their assessment that the Mac is better than Windows. They seem to completely gloss over the possibility that the Mac actually is better than Windows, and a particular group of people gladly pay more money to use it.
Look at it this way. With Windows being so ubiquitous, it’s fairly safe to say that nearly every Mac user has tried, or used Windows at some point in time. And they still find the Mac a better option.
Can the reverse be said of Windows users? Most of the Windows users I have met are completely ignorant of what the Mac has to offer.
I don’t mind if someone has tried both options and declared that they are equally good/bad. But 95% of the the time when a Windows user claims that Windows is as good as the Mac, you can bet that they have never touched a (modern) Mac.
As they say, once you go Mac, you never go back.
Posted: December 13, 2007 / Category: News