We love our machines. I’ve found that Mac users can’t wait to use their machines (when they get home from work for example) whereas Windows users can’t wait to get away from their computers because they associate them with work. Obvious generalities here I know, but I think that many would agree that it’s true. [Read]
I mean, who can blame us? 🙂 With icons like these in Apple’s ‘Think Different’ campaign …
Seriously now, though Mac users insist on having their Kool Aid and drinking it, the smug mentality of these users are slowly becoming saturated by the way Apple had introduced Windows compatibility and made Macs cheaper.
Hypothesis: Linux is the new Mac. 🙂
Lately though I’ve been playing a mental game whenever I watch an Apple keynote or attend an Apple press release. The game is really simple. I try to keep level headed through the presentation and figure out what Apple isn’t telling us. Aaron Brazell writes about how the Apple store is the place where intelligent people die:
However, Apple products incite a certain stupidity in people that encourages them… no, forces them… no, not even that – compels them to go to the Apple Store and buy the newest product on the day of launch or soon thereafter. [Read]
Apple knows how to feed on the ego. And now their market share is inflating, who’s to stop their heads from doing the same?
4 replies on “Are Mac users really smug and arrogant?”
“(T)hough Mac users insist on having their cake and eating it…”
Uh, shouldn’t it be the other way around? Have one’s cake and eat it, too.
But I digress. Although I’m a Linux fanboy, I don’t think it’s the new Mac — not yet, at least.
Linux is the new Mac. Mac is the new PC (gasp!). PC is the new… Family Computer? Haha!
I use Mac, by the way. I felt like an airhead saying that out loud.
Looks like im gona be a mac convert anytime soon. woohoo.
I’ve used up my tech budget for 2007. Perhaps… Aluminum Macbook for 2008!