Not that I’m being flooded with real comments, but if you post one, and don’t see it after a day or so, email me. I’ve been getting boatloads of spam in the comments (you won’t see it because I have moderation turned on), but it was getting to be too much for me so I turned on the askimet spam filtering plugin. We’ll see what the results are.
I know this has been posted all over the place, but this guy is funny. I ‘spect John and Luke will get this more than anyone.
or actually PC vs. Mac rants on Digg:
Check out this Digg thread. I posted somewhere towards the bottom (although the ways these go it’s somewhere towards the middle now).
Here’s my comment and it sums up a trend I’ve seen elsewhere on this whole stupid debate.
So let me see if I can sum this up nicely.
The statement does come off as people who use macs at work aren’t real/average and don’t have real/average jobs. Average would certainly have been a safer term and may even be what the original author was driving at, but for a second forget that you hate Apple fan boys and that you hate Apple’s advertising. Pretend that you use a tool that helps you be efficient at your job (whatever tool, whatever job). There are alternate tools available. In fact your tool is not really a popular one in the category of tools it falls into, but for you it works really well and most of the time you don’t even have to think about it, you just use it. Now imagine someone who uses the most popular tool decides to give your preferred tool a try to see if it works for “real people with real jobs”. How would you feel?
I’ll admit that a lot of the vitriol on this thread from both sides is upsetting. I wouldn’t have posted squat on merits of the original post if not for the raging idiocy on both sides of this comment thread.
Look it’s a silly statement that comes across–most likely by accident–as offensive to Mac users. Who respond by shouting at the top of their lungs that they’re real people with real jobs and f. this guy and come off looking a bit psycho.
PC users respond that Mac users are blowing this all out of proportion and are so touchy for no good reason–which up to that point I’d agree–and then blow their own argument out of the water by saying the equivalent of “besides you’re not real people with real jobs anyway.”
The whole stupid argument makes my blood boil because it’s so stupid. Use tools that rely on open standards to communicate information and let people use whatever tools they want at either end of that communication.
End of rant.