Macintosh Flamewar in a Nutshell
Grumpy points me to a glowing, happy Salon article, Hallelujah, the Mac is back. This is an interesting article that raises a number of interesting points. More entertaining, however, are the reactions to that article, as selected by Salon.
These letters read like a summary of every Mac vs. PC flamewar ever, distilled down to the essence, and without the profanity. I love it. You can tell if you are a Mac lover or a hater just by reading the two pages (so far, anyway) of letters.
This article does repeat the Mac-is-inherently-safer meme, which one of the haters takes issue with. I like to think that he missed the point.
grumpy:
Well, those certainly are amusing. Mostly the ones defending Windows because those people have obviously not used a Mac for some time now. And therefore, they enforce the argument from the article that I quoted regarding American’s buying junk from Detroit in the 70’s because they had not experienced anything better.
2 February 2005, 11:41 am