Sunday, May 23, 2004 |
12:53 - I never metaphor I didn't like
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/23/CMG8S5TM1B1.DTL
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Wow. First it was the "car" metaphor for Macs in the Windows world (you know, the whole "BMW has a small market share, but nobody maligns BMWs!" thing—'scuse me, plenty of people malign BMWs). And now, to add to the "strained Mac metaphors" shelf, here's an SFGate article by Asma Gull Hasan about how the Mac is just like Islam.
The Mac operating system was created from scratch with the goal of being simple. When you turn a Mac on, the desktop is not an artificial environment created to navigate through DOS but is, in fact, the actual environment. Muslims are encouraged by the Koran to look at the world with curiosity and wonder, not to be afraid of scientific discovery. God's creations are "signs" to us of his design, which God wants us to explore and theorize about. The Koran liberates us to ask, "Why?" This accessibility to God is a major attraction for many Muslim converts. Being Muslim, and also being a Mac user, is empowering because both put me in control.
You know, something tells me that as long as there are majorities and minorities of anything in this world, there will always be topics for high school term papers. And SFGate articles.
Via Mark O.
UPDATE: Mike Silverman offers perspective. Also, Marcus notes that Islam's innovations ended about 800 years ago, whereas Apple's last innovation was only 800 years ago in Internet time or something...
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