This is a nice little tirade from the folks at MacDailyNews that my uncle turned me on to this morning:
"If HP notebooks had any style, we wouldn't have much of a problem with them, either. The problem is the operating system. Microsoft inflicted garbage on the world and years later still does little to try to improve the situation. The operating system is not supposed to be worked on constantly by users. The operating system is supposed to serve its users invisibly. The operating system is not supposed to feel like it's designed by some dyslexic engineer with a nasty habit of poorly copying Apple. The operating system shouldn't require a manual for its users to accomplish the basics. The operating system is not supposed to exist in order to support a vast economy of technicians, anti-malware software houses, support staff, etc. The operating system is not supposed to waste time and energy, it's supposed to aid its users to be as productive as they can be. It's so nice to have an elegant, intuitive, powerful, secure, and fun - yes, fun - operating system. We want to use our computers, not fight them. With Apple's Mac OS X, we're lovers, not fighters."
I think it very neatly encapsulates the basic switcher argument. Of course, we're fighting against something that is culturally entrenched - that working with computers should be PAINFUL - but I believe we may have reached the tipping point when we see conservative Wall Street types using MacBooks. (The tirade follows on an article for some industry analysts attending an HP briefing and carrying MacBook Pros.)
Posted by artandscience at December 13, 2006 07:43 AM