Mac Ad a little too accurate?

I am not computer illiterate but that doesnt mean I want to spend every day on a stupid operating system where you press start to shutdown and delete to (force) quit.
 
burnsy2023 said:
Maybe it's for computer illiterate people or maybe it just has a very inituiative interface?

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If you can't understand how to use a PC then there's no hope. People are just morons when it comes to computers. I've dealt with users and the lack of intelligence/common sense is just mind boggling, and these people are supposed to be straight A students with degrees and there job is designing things which rely on peoples lives (aircraft) One example is a user force fed 5.25" floppies into the drive until it jammed shut. She thought it swallows the disks and stores them in the computer. Another was the typical "it's switched off why doesn't it work" problem.
 
My flatmate purposely left this article out for me on the kitchen table, naturally I ritually burned it.

But besides that another flatmate tried to one up me with this article....now I just want to hurt him. :mad:
 
squiffy said:
Just because I'm modertly bad at spelling doesn't mean I'm a idiot in front of a computer. :)
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Preeching to the choir, mate: OCUK Forums are living proof of this statement.
 
squiffy said:
If you can't understand how to use a PC then there's no hope. People are just morons when it comes to computers. I've dealt with users and the lack of intelligence/common sense is just mind boggling, and these people are supposed to be straight A students with degrees and there job is designing things which rely on peoples lives (aircraft) One example is a user force fed 5.25" floppies into the drive until it jammed shut. She thought it swallows the disks and stores them in the computer. Another was the typical "it's switched off why doesn't it work" problem.
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Yet they let these people drive several tonnes of metal at 70 miles per hour.

Scary.
 
burnsy2023 said:
Indeed, the question is, would Windows users defend their OS as passionatly as Mac users?

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No because Windows users have nothing to prove.

Mac and Linux users are always very offensive to slate other operating systems IMO.
 
I don't know why Macintoshians take offense in the Fisher Price quote.

We all know there are marvels you can do with OSX, but let's not be naive - people choose Macs for years not because it has BSD under pretty skin but because it's nice to look at, point and click OS which to some point in indistant past had a single button pointer just so the temp office clerk in some Nowhere Town, Upper Rednecks, Arizona don't have to call support and ask "what's right click" after he tried clicking left button with both hands and nothing significant happened.
You know it's true. You know that's why macs are so popular in US for example and we don't have to pretend that a large marketing share isn't de-facto image concious, eclectic desk keeping feng shui huggers and people who need linear ATM machine gui to go around their daily work tasks.

Computer literate people love Macs for completely different reasons than everyone else. For some of you it's shell with proper desktop on top, for others it's the ultimate mail and browser home utility, for millions though, and this is done on purpose, let's not kid ourselves about it - it is Fisher Price workstation for people that can't figure out how to program their tivo on remote with more than 5 buttons.

Apple is great at creating those kind of interfaces, digital media and mp3 players were known for years but it took ipod's "you can't go wrong" and "it's soooo pretty" design for it to be purchased by people who couldn't figure out how to use audiophile devices, mini disks, DCCs, portable players beyond their childhood 3 button walkmen. Suddenly it's a device for retiring gentleman with Sinatra collection and as much as cheerleader than can't even spell her function in job application. Devices for geeks and chicks. For those that convert subnets to factual computers per floor in head and those that can't find "D" on 5 speed manual gearbox after 20 years of driving....

And isn't that what just what about any unix user wrote about Windows 10 years ago...
 
burnsy2023 said:
Indeed, the question is, would Windows users defend their OS as passionatly as Mac users?

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Isn't this article proof that they would?

Altho the main thing which is annoying is the way the article is written, the content and also the fact he is not attacking the OS, he is attacking the users, putting them into a stereotype.

If he said he disliked the mac adverts, then fair enough. But he seems very passionate about attacking mac users. Maybe because he cannot attack the OS :confused:

The article starts by saying about the mac adverts, which is quite funny. I don't see people saying they hate windows users because of all the vista adverts. I'm pretty sure there are a lot more vista adverts scattered around the internet, in subways and on tv than mac adverts.

At the end of the day mac's and pc's are just tools, it doesn't matter which one you use.

They both run windows now aswell
 
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