Newsflash: Mac Users Love Apple, Hate Microsoft

An anonymous reader writes "An article on wired.com talks about how Mac users helped Apple through the dark years of the 90s." It goes on to discuss how a psychologist was hired to figure out how to woo Mac users away from Apple, with some (to him) surprising results.

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SPORKS

[Anonymous Coward]

Xander Kwiatek is a stoner! LOLOLOLOL!

Re:Mac Users Love Apple, Hate Microsoft

[red_dragon]

I wish I could tag articles based on content. If this were Fark, it'd have been tagged "Obvious" yesterday.

.mac was actually a real steal, seriously

[kraksmoka]

i had my .mac account for two years and i was very upset at the prospect of paying for it . . . .

if you are a first timer, or had a free account before they switched to a pay format, they offered it for 50 bucks.

then at the end they sweetened the deal by offering 100 4x6 prints from kodak for Free! those cost 50 bucks anyway.

in fact, they did that for all .mac users. they also give u alot of software for joining, Virex (well that's useless, we don't really have those, but. . .), the great Backup util that saved my bookmarks and some other stuff.

don't forget, u can make all the functionality of .mac on your own server if you want. its all open source.

all in all, it looked bad at the start, but they really did a good thing with it, worth it for the few bucks extra.

mind u, i was vehemently opposed at the beginning

man...

[newsdee]

Please check the timestamp before modding to redundant. Losing mod points because people surf in "Newest Post Mode" is not very nice.

Anyway, a redudant comment is still on topic, given the title of the news. :-)

Re:Is this really true?

[TellarHK]

It's usually not a "switch", but an addition. IIRC, Taco bought a Powerbook. I have several platforms that I use, ranging from BSD and Linux all the way to the dreaded XP. But more and more, I've moved to my new Powerbook (faster than Taco's, hah!) for just about everything I do at work or home except gaming.

And yes, I know it was foolish to brag about my Powerbook being faster. He can probably -afford- a new one, where I'm still gonna be in debt for a while on mine. :)

Re:Better Poll

[limekiller4]

How on earth did I get modded down as a 'troll' asking this this question in response to this kind of story? I realize that OS-baiting is the canonical troll, but the post is about cross-OS perception.

It's funny -- I'd like to take some comfort in the response to my posts this week:

Sunday December 01, @06:52PM (Replies:3; Score:5, Insightful)
Saturday November 30, @03:25PM (Replies:5; Score:5, Informative)
Thursday November 28, @01:38PM (Replies:2; Score:4, Insightful)
Thursday November 28, @01:01PM (Replies:1; Score:4, Interesting)
Thursday November 28, @12:01PM (Replies:3; Score:5, Insightful)
Wednesday November 27, @10:09PM (Score:5, Funny)
Wednesday November 27, @08:00PM (Replies:2; Score:5, Funny)

...but how can I take any sort of pride in these when it is clear that the moderators are gits? I have to assume that my positively-moderated posts are just as cluelessly viewed as the negatively-moderated ones if I'm going to be consistent, don't I?

Oh, foo. And I was all stoked, too.

Note to world: Stop worrying about your fucking karma score. Just write. Think I'm disingenous?

HEY MODERATORS! GOATSE.CX. Please mod this post down.

You are not your fucking karma score. This perception is why Slashdot is largely viewed as a bunch of self-important blowhards. Maybe I can get a "-1, Flame" for that line alone.

Predictable

[Reziac]

Now that was predictable... within two minutes, along comes a Mac zealot and mods "-1, Troll". That's what you get for speaking your mind around Mac zealots. The same thing happens in face-to-face conversations.

Sorry, kids, I *never* troll. In fact, my above post is comprised of 100% realworld examples.

Re:Better Poll

[limekiller4]

PDHoss writes:
"Damn, if only there was a way to, I don't know, rate the moderators' moderations."

I know what you mean (metamoderation). I guess I'm more lamenting the fact that the moderation schema, as it exists on slashdot, leads to Death By Disagreement and a general theme of dismissal than real conversation. You don't need to argue your point, you just -1 the person. Not a lot of neurons involved in that one.

How often do you see really good, long threads on Slashdot? Why not? Because as your message becomes more and more narrow and drawn out, it is much more likely to be modded down and much less likely to be modded up because of the decreased focus and the lack of people reading the thread that far down.

I don't really give a rat's ass about the karma hit. That isn't the point. The point is that Slashdot has a bright pool of readers and I think the moderation scheme squanders it.

Re:Macs

[Anonymous Coward]

Honey, I'm gorgeous.

Re:Mac Users Love Apple, Hate Microsoft

[richie2000]

Astroturfers, astroturfers, astroturfers!!! *fat psycho does mad monkey dance and drools a bit*

You're right, No floppy

[EEgopher]

Regardless of what MS is or does, is no one appalled that the newer macs have no 3.5" floppy drive?
I still use this incredible technology each and every week. And thus I cannot own a mac. Cannot.