November 29, 2004
why i prefer windows to macintosh
Why I prefer Windows to Macintosh:
I know, I know, I’m a “creative”. I’m supposed to prefer Macintosh. However:
1. I spent 15 years in advertising, surrounded by Macintoshes and Macintosh lovers. After a while they both got annoying.
2. After you reach a certain age you start resenting being told to “think different” by rich, khaki-wearing Californians. Especially when you already know how to think differently, thank you very much.
3. There is a new, annoying trend in tailoring of sewing the tailor’s label on the outside. The wearer thinks he is being cool and hip, when in fact the message he is sending out is “I know nothing of suits, tailoring or anything of substance, really. I’m a clueless nonentity who’s desperate to be taken seriously by his equally unremarkable hipster peers.”
Metaphorically, Apple wears its label on the outside. And it appeals to people who do likewise.
4. Steve Jobs really wants to be in the movie business. So do all his customers.
5. The fact that if I write anything even remotely negative about Macintosh means I’ll have these saddo no-life Mac users start sending me hate mail.
6. If Apple had a human voice, it would sound like Douglas Coupland.
7. A big part of Apple’s income comes from reinforcing the idea to impressionable, young people that it is entirely possible to make a great living without ever having to get a real job.
8. For six months this year, I had an iMac at work and a 5-year-old second hand Dell at home. I prefered using the Dell.
9. If Windows disappeared tomorrow, somebody else would come along and fill their shoes without a lot of fuss. If Macintosh disappeared tomorrow, we’d have all these mass-gathering candlelight vigils, with everybody singing “Imagine”.
10. When I was in high school, people who were overly into hipster brands were routinely taken behind the bike sheds and savagely pummeled. That is the natural order of things.
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Hugh,
I just wanted to let you know that I agree with your Apple metaphor. I like how “why I like windows” got turned into “I hate apple” by all these folks.
Wow.
I’m 24 and certainly haven’t spent as much time with mac heads as you have but some even manage to rub me the wrong way. What’s wrong with “to each their own”? Why do they feel compelled to tell me I’m wrong with the choice I’ve made?
Oh well. Keep up the good work, as an IT guy, i like getting these peeks into the head of a marketing guy who’s not satisfied with marketing as it is.
A lot of people say Macs never crash.
My Mac crashed two days ago.
I’ve just finished reinstalling everything I need to do my work.
Except for my work, which has been destroyed.
iPods also crash. Mine has crashed 4 times in the last year. I have lost a lot of music and a lot of money sending it back to be repaired.
I am bitter. Very bitter.
*Yawn*
Wow, nothing to see here. Another trolling for hits “I Hate Mac” diary entry. Enjoy your temporary fame, Hugh, I’ll go back to using my computers.
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