I has a confession. [rant]

[annikk.exe]

I've been holding my tongue because I didn't want to go off-topic, but the vitriol is building and I thought I'd try to expel it in a controlled way, in a thread all of its own.
I hope I do not offend anyone.. :S

But anyway. Here goes.


I hate macs. Hate them.

I hate the very idea of them. I hate Steve Jobs with the pure, burning rage of ages. I hate Apple's products, their marketing strategy, their little catch phrases and the mac fanboys who rave about how amazing their computers are and that they "never crash" and "can't get viruses".

I hate the fact that Apple refuse to adopt many of the global standards that allow different components to work with other components like all other personal computer manufacturers do - paving the way for the manufacturers of dedicated aftermarket components to flourish. I hate the Mac mouse and the ridiculously contrived user interface. I HATE the propensity to put "i" before every single product, as if this somehow makes it more Advanced. iPod, iPhone, iMac, iHate.

I hate their logo and I hate the vomituous "cutesy appeal" Apple tried to use to sell more machines. I hate the stupidity of claiming "it just works" when sites like macfixit.com exist. Most of all, I HATE that several leading effects manufacturers like Lexicon only really support Macs and write drivers for the PC as an afterthought, skimping on features and preventing the use of their product in full to anyone with the audicity to choose PC.

Hate. Hate. HATE.


Ok, I'm done.



-Annikk

[logo80]

Originally Posted by annikk.exe

I've been holding my tongue because I didn't want to go off-topic, but the vitriol is building and I thought I'd try to expel it in a controlled way, in a thread all of its own.
I hope I do not offend anyone.. :S

But anyway. Here goes.


I hate macs. Hate them.

I hate the very idea of them. I hate Steve Jobs with the pure, burning rage of ages. I hate Apple's products, their marketing strategy, their little catch phrases and the mac fanboys who rave about how amazing their computers are and that they "never crash" and "can't get viruses".

I hate the fact that Apple refuse to adopt many of the global standards that allow different components to work with other components like all other personal computer manufacturers do - paving the way for the manufacturers of dedicated aftermarket components to flourish. I hate the Mac mouse and the ridiculously contrived user interface. I HATE the propensity to put "i" before every single product, as if this somehow makes it more Advanced. iPod, iPhone, iMac, iHate.

I hate their logo and I hate the vomituous "cutesy appeal" Apple tried to use to sell more machines. I hate the stupidity of claiming "it just works" when sites like macfixit.com exist. Most of all, I HATE that several leading effects manufacturers like Lexicon only really support Macs and write drivers for the PC as an afterthought, skimping on features and preventing the use of their product in full to anyone with the audicity to choose PC.

Hate. Hate. HATE.


Ok, I'm done.



-Annikk

the difference between a mac user and a pc user is: a pc user HATE mac users, a mac user can understand the frustration of a pc user so he can't hate him... eheheh I agree that the marketing is awful, but as an ex pc user I simply I won't go back to MS world until they product will work.

[annikk.exe]

What aspect of PCs did you find didn't work?


-Annikk

[LivePsy]

Please hate Mac's if you wish. There's plenty to hate about Macs as well as Windows. There's plenty of hate for everyone to share. And let's hate Linux while we are at it.

Try reading appleinsider.com's review of Windows 7. Perhaps Apple is more standards than you think, and perhaps the OS is better too. I don't know because I'm not you, but there's plenty of hate for everything.

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[annikk.exe]

Heh. I do realise I am being somewhat irrational. There are worse things to have an irrational hatred of though, I guess. It feels good, oddly attractive, to lay verbal waste to stuff.

On Windows 7, I've seen demos of it but I remain unconvinced. So far it looks just like Vista, but optimised for touch-screens and stealing all the UI ideas from the iphone.



-Annikk

[LivePsy]

Windows 7 appears to be a service pack update of Vista with a new look and name to distance it from the bad reactions to Vista. Read up on appleinsider, there's some thought provoking comments on it. I have both macs and pc's because I would rather install updates than have a life.

Please keep up the irrationality though, I didn't mean to squash creativity with a superior-than-thou post (which mine seems to be on second read)

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[JordanNaumov]

Originally Posted by logo80

the difference between a mac user and a pc user is: a pc user HATE mac users, a mac user can understand the frustration of a pc user so he can't hate him... eheheh I agree that the marketing is awful, but as an ex pc user I simply I won't go back to MS world until they product will work.

Couldn't of said it better......