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Friday, July 19, 2002
18:51 - What he said.

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Paul Summers is fed up that I'm not being more assertive in these responses here, so he steps to the plate for me:

Brian, you worry waaaay too much about this stuff.

Apple makes great products. Their computers are the most innovative, easiest to use, highest value machines that exist. What's more, their software is developed with the philosophy that keeps me from breaking computers. More is better, and listen to the people so as to find out what we're doing wrong.

This is a philosophy some people just don't get. These people see only the bottom line. They do not appreciate innovation, nor style, nor creativity. They are perfectly happy to pay 500 bucks less up front for their computer, only to spend 2000 over the course of two or three years to keep it "up to date", at the end of which, it becomes useless. These people buy a chevy, and scoff at the shiny new Ferrari that passes them on the highway. After all, the Ferrari owner is just showing off. He's not actually enjoying his hand-crafted leather, nor his racecar handling, nor the 50 odd years of design, craftsmanship, and flat out LOVE that went into crafting his automobile.

Because, after all, all anyone has to do is get to the mall and back, right?

Apple is a great company, run by someone who cares for it more then anything. Anyone can jump around like a monkey and scream "I LOVE THIS COMPANY!" at the top of their lungs while making an eight figure salary. But how many can do so time and time again, only because they enjoy it, while paying themselves a buck a year?

Steve Jobs has his flaws, but he has broken the mold and reinvented the wheel for 20 years, and he isn't showing any signs of stopping now. Apple has a lot of money in the bank. They're selling computers. They're buying up companies like you and I buy pizza. They're obviously doing a great many things RIGHT, regardless of what anyone else has to say about them.

The windows user, much like the person in the chevy, has no idea about things like Aqua. They have no idea how much easier, or downright enjoyable using a computer can be. They don't know about clicking a button, and having the audio gain of each and every one of your mp3's normalized. They wouldn't dream of plugging in a video camera, adding effects that only a few years ago would have been possible by only film studios, and then burning it to a DVD. They don't believe that sort of thing is possible, nor that a company would give its customers such software for free.

They are the same people who see the bright red Ferrari and say: "Oh, he's just making up for a small penis." while having a good chuckle.

Well, you know what? I'm tired of being an apologist for Apple. I don't HAVE to be, because they are the most successful total-widget company on the freaking planet. They make computers THAT I LIKE TO USE. And after using basically every major system made for over ten years, it is the ONLY one that I like to use.

Be that as it may, I have sold dozens of computers for Apple by simply showing my friends and associates my own. When I brought my brand new Tibook into IBM with me, a good number of people actually cringed when they looked back at their PC laptops.

Some, however, just scoffed. "Who would ever need something like that." After all, it's just like buying a Ferrari. To someone who owns a chevy anyway.

Yaknow what? I don't care one bit anymore. I use the best, most innovative, most reliable, and most FUN computers that exist. If someone else wants to sick with their chevy, with their blue screens of death, their horrible UIs, and laughable implementations of things I had on my computer ten years ago, then they can go right ahead. It certainly won't be any skin off my nose.

And for the other people, who want to scoff and laugh at me because I use the Ferrari of computers, well to quote Two, "They can suck my fucking cock!"

I'll be sure and wave as I pass them on the freeway.



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