Windows does indeed look bad
Tim Bray is saying what I have been saying for years. And he notices that people are happier to move away from Windows, which I, too, haven noticed.
Gina has a friend that is really into photography and has taken note on how much Gina loves our Mac. So she’s sold — but her husband wasn’t. Not until he walked into our local Apple Store and messed around a little. His response was then: “Why would anyone get a PC?”
When I was visiting my parents this past weekend, they said their PC (now running Vista) no longer recognized the DVD drive. I looked at it, did a quick google, and hacked the registry like they said. And it worked! But my parents shouldn’t be hacking the registry just to get stuff to work! Vista, overall, hasn’t been easy for them — lots of apps quit working or don’t work well. Before we left, they said their next computer will be a Mac. It fits their needs anyway, and is less work.
Apple does have a bit of a marketing problem — there are a lot of people that still sneer at the mention of Macs and Apple. “But I can’t run Office?” Uh, yes you can! “Uh, there is no software for it!” Yes there is (unless you play games . . .) “It’s more expensive!” Not really, unless you don’t count the costs of having an antivirus, a firewall, and the amount of time you will spend updating and babysitting your Windows box.
That said, Apple doesn’t use FUD with their marketing — they want the “experience” to speak for itself. I love my Mac, but I think that I could almost work as efficiently on a Ubuntu machine. But Gina couldn’t — so Mac it is!
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