Some iPod Fans Dump PCs For Macs

dereklam writes "The popularity of the iPod could be boosting Macs' popularity as well. News.com reports that 6 percent of iPod users have made the switch from PCs to Macs. An additional 7 percent said they are planning to dump their old PC for an Apple machine, according to the survey." I wish the linked story had more details; it's not clear from the results mentioned whether there's a strong causal relationship here.

Comments

Fuck off with the appleturfing

[stratjakt]

seriously.

Some article claims some guy asked some iPod owners if they might want a Mac.. Whoopty fucking do

Seriously, this isn't "news for nerds", this isn't "stuff that matters". This is "yay for Apple hoooray for iPods".

I'm impressed any of you have an iPod that works, considering you masturbate furiously every time its near you, I'd think it would be gummed up with dried zealot spooge.

I don't hate Apple, I just dont particularly see any reason to raise Apple above any other computer vendor. Whoopty do, they have their own incompatible architecture.

Apple is just Dell or Gateway that sell a different architecture. BFD. Where are all the Dell, Gateway and eMachines press releases?

THIS JUST IN!! PEOPLE WHO BUY A DELL TEND TO BUY ANOTHER DELL BECAUSE OF THE AWARD WINNING 24 HOUR TECH SUPPORT!

Re:I hate the Mac price argument.

[presearch]

Sun sucks, they need to understand that their products are too expensive.

Re:Not for techs

[Refrag]

Apple's LCD monitors are superior to almost all others, and they're fucking cheap in comparison to Sony's.

Macintoshes aren't expensive, Apple just doesn't build cheap pieces of crap like other PC vendors.

Re:Not for techs

[aldoman]

Steve Jobs reguallaly bashes Linux for no good reason. He often does this on his Keynote's. However, I don't think people realize how little of OSX is actually Apple's:

Kernel.. nope, thats FreeBSD derived.
Safari.. nope, that's KHTML derived.
Printing.. nope, that's CUPS derived.
Shell.. nope, that's bash/tcsh derived.
Compiler.. nope, that's GCC.
Windows Networking nope, that's Samba.

What does it leave?

You're kidding right?

[kuzb]

An ipod has to be the dumbest reason to switch from anything to anything else.

I won't try iTunes

[michaelmalak]

From what I understand iTunes has DRM, and I won't use DRM, no matter how flexible. I, and many others, bought into CDs when they came out in the 1980's in a big way, because it was perfect quality sound on a medium that would (supposedly) last forever -- certainly lacking the degradation of vinyl. I have 500 CD's, with the legal ability to rip them to any player I want. When a Nokia phone comes out with 20GB storage, will you be able to load your iTunes onto that?

Songs are memories. I refuse to let a corporation control my memories. It's a shame that the corporations are still forcing us to buy environmentally harmful atoms just to listen to DRM-free music.

Mouse buttons

[zaphod_es]

I have the money and I am ready to buy a Power Mac - but first Apple will have to give me at least one more mouse button. And don't tell me to plug an external mouse into a laptop!