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David Ker Outs The Apple Owner’s Lie

March 18, 2008

And he does it with panache. Apple Owners…. we know what you’re really all about now.

UPDATE: I find the following sentences from the essay quoted by Crossley in comments to be so true and resonate so well with my own sentiments that I am compelled to restate them here:

I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui. PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension.

Amen and Amen! [Emphasis mine]

UPDATE II: Doug ‘The Mac Man’s Mantoy’ Chaplin has stepped to the aid of poor benighted besotted Apple to defend them against the truth of their snobberynessishness. Doug’s defense is ill founded though and proves the rightness of Ker’s evaluation. His shriek bubbles up from the pits of MacHell where MacPhiles all repose in MacWretchedness and MacDespair and for that very reason must protest MacBadness with claims of MacGoodness. But, alas, MacDoug- no one believes it except those who are members of MacCult.

15 comments to “David Ker Outs The Apple Owner’s Lie”

  1. Jim, you too might like what Charlie Brooker says on this. Of course, I couldn’t possibly comment being surrounded by Mac users in Sheffield.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html

         by James Crossley March 18, 2008 at 9:44 am

  2. Charlie’s article is hilarious. I haven’t laughed so hard since I read my article this morning.

         by Lingamish March 18, 2008 at 12:01 pm

  3. Yup. Wonder what Brady and the other Mac-ites think… ;-)

         by Jim March 18, 2008 at 12:04 pm

  4. I don’t know Jim. I’ve used both and owned both over the years. If I had the money I’d buy a Mac simply because Macs work. Yeah, I know you can geek out on a PC, and I had a whole career based on just that skill set. But end of the day don’t want to be swearing at my computer because the latest automatic updates require me to once again tweak my (&%&#^ computer into submission. I never had that problem with my Macs.

         by Frank Emanuel March 18, 2008 at 3:16 pm

  5. Suuuurreeeee…. Frank, but how do we know you’re not just toeing the party line and saying you’ve never had problems when you have! ;-)

         by Jim March 18, 2008 at 3:21 pm

  6. Jim, I hate to toss an actual fact into your hallucinatory rant with it’s disturbing sexual overtones (Mantoy ???!!!) but I own two Windows PCs and no Macs.

         by Doug Chaplin March 18, 2008 at 6:54 pm

  7. Oh sure Doug. Sure. Sure you don’t…. Feeling guilty huh? ;-)

         by Jim March 18, 2008 at 6:57 pm

  8. Nope, no guilt whatsoever! Then again, I haven’t got a dead Swiss mantoy lusting over my shoulder!

         by Doug Chaplin March 18, 2008 at 9:09 pm

  9. Me either… but I bet Tilling does!
    ;-p

         by Jim March 18, 2008 at 9:31 pm

  10. I haven’t said much because I honestly find all of this disturbing. As Doug said, it is just a computer. It seems to me that there is far more energy being spent on vitriol, and frankly un-Christian behavior, from the “anti-Mac” camp than anything coming from the “Apple Fanbois.” The sorts of comments that

    David’s comments are particularly disconcerting since they are broad attacks on anyone who uses a Mac. Yes, I realize it is intended to be humor and I hope everyone here knows that I have a pretty easy going attitude and appreciate farce, but David misses the mark. “Apple owners are middle-schoolers that never grew up”? Am I? Really?

         by Chris March 18, 2008 at 10:24 pm

  11. It’s interesting to see notebook that ran Windows Vista the fastest according to the “PC Magazine”!
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html or http://tinyurl.com/24a2cg.
    (Hint: It’s a Mac!)

    One of the best things I like about the Mac is Accordance. But I suppose that argument doesn’t work since Accordance will run quickly on PCs with a free Mac emulator. :(
    http://accordancebible.com/resources/support/emulator.php
    or http://tinyurl.com/2bxk77

         by learnfrenchwiththebible March 18, 2008 at 11:13 pm

  12. [...] 2: Jim sings along. Doug feels the power of the dark [...]

         by Apple users are cool and you’re not « Lingamish March 19, 2008 at 12:09 am

  13. You’ll have to knock off Machappy Sheffield on your header :) Perhaps replace it with Nottingham (Hugh Goddard, Richard Bell, not to mention the Great Prof Em Maurice Casey). Apples are for eating.

         by steph March 19, 2008 at 3:04 am

  14. No Chris, you alone of all Apple users are the sensible one and we love you.

         by Jim March 19, 2008 at 10:27 am

  15. [...] Jim West described me as a “mantoy”. Today he says he’d pay $500 for a nude photo. But James Crossley [...]

         by MetaCatholic » Be afraid, be very very afraid (of Jim West) March 19, 2008 at 3:00 pm

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