If that's how you see it, then yes, I guess I do. (obvious troll is obvious?)
The thing I've learned is that people often value things differently to how I do, and for reasons I don't often understand.
Personally, I find Windows to be a hugely annoying OS to use, and very limiting, but I understand that for almost everybody else it suits their needs fine and they like it. I'm a big fan of Linux, but I realise that may not suit everyone.
Same with music; you wouldn't believe what I listen to, and I don't imagine for a second you'd like it (hint: if an album doesn't have at least a few tracks that go for over 10 minutes, I'm not interested), and the reverse is possibly true as well.
What am I getting at here? Thankfully, we're not all clones of each other, and often personal tastes are very different. Expecting some stranger to justify their choices to you kind of indicates you haven't figured this yet.
Thank you for having one of the few reasoned statements of why you like a mac I've seen in this post! It's a breath of fresh air!
You like it simply because you like it. You recognize some people may not like it, and may like other things. And that's ok. You think your Mac is fine for you, and does what you want to do the way you want to do them and it may or may not be the case for other people and find that to be and alright way for the world to be.
Except macs cost less and are better in every way. It is kinda funny that you guys have been telling this lie for 20 years and you think people don't all know you're full of it. Pathetic, but funny.
I used to work in the building next to the 2checkout guys and I've attended a couple of Perl user groups at their offices. I also know a few people whom work there and they are all good guys.
In short I'm biased - but I will tell you that over at 2checkout their customer support is very nice, and they are all very helpful.
As someone who dislikes all the facebook posts and apple and whatnots that aren't really hacking, this is an amazingly awesome post and I wish there were more of these things on HN.
You can say the site is going downhill or that it is in a slump but this kind of post is exactly the opposite of the posts that I think are non-hacker news. I would much rather see 100 how to tie special knots, how to quickly repair an engine or something along those line posts over another facebook privacy post (though those are indeed almost non-existent now).
Denial and hesitation seems to be Apple's modus operandi (they aren't the only ones).
As a software developer the bit about their algorithm for determining signal strength is absolutely ridiculous. IMO they probably released an update that actually faked your signal strength in order to cover up the crap antenna. That sounds more reasonable to me.
Does anyone remember how long it took apple to solve that problem? It was despicable and completely disrespectful.
IF Microsoft had the same issue with Windows they would have patched it overnight; not waiting to fix things with the same time table that BP uses to stop an oil leak.
I'm a linux user (#!) and I also own a mac. I use windows professionally for my job. Things do not "just work" on a mac. If you think so then IMHO you're not using much of your OS.
In the end I would choose Linux, Windows , then OSX. I used to claim that Apple's hardware was superior, but never again.
Never again? Despicable and completely disrespectful denial and hesitation?
My counterpoint, not to dismiss legitimate concerns that the huge number of customers affected by crappy AT&T coverage have, is twofold:
Denial is spin, PR. Hesitation is having less R&D resources to do anything about it. It's well known Apple has a smaller headcount than Microsoft, and values certain things more than others.
Mr. Winer and you are totally entitled to your opinions, but mentioning the axes you have to grind in your criticism of Apple aren't great ways to be persuasive.
In order: OSX and Apple's hardware, because its worth owning, and nothing else. ChromeOS(via Hexxeh, at this point) can't adjust screen brightness. Ubuntu can't support 'proprietary wireless chipsets' on first boot - like it should matter. Vista was difficult to use for everything, it was disrespectful anyone got stuck with any of the 7 flavors of that turd. I looked at the font on a blackberry yesterday and could barely make out numbers; it's just so crappy.
Embrace the black plastic of all these windows-bundled laptops, I'll enjoy a machine I need to use for hours on end that feels designed and extruded instead of matte and injection moulded.
