“Well, for me it is a big deal,” Foley reports. “I’m a PC. I am not an early adopter or someone who rushes out to buy the latest/greatest gadget.”
MacDailyNews Take: Luddite soccer mom. Oops, sorry, she’s praising Apple for a change (funny, once she buys an Apple product and uses it, even she gets it, too).
Foley continues, “This is the first Apple product I’ve ever owned. I never saw the need for an iPod (I bought a Sony Walkman MP3 player, and later a Zune HD). I never lusted after an iPhone (especially because I use my phone to make phone calls). And I never wanted or needed an iMac or a MacBook, as I had so many PCs from which to choose.”
MacDailyNews Take: Listen any time is too early for this. We’re going to vomit if we read further. Read the full article if you want.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: People who claim to “choose” Microsoft products, but who’ve never used an Apple product, have absolutely no credibility. Until now, Foley’s lived a life denying herself the best because it had an Apple logo on it and/or because she’s cheap or at least unable to calculate simple things like Total Cost of Ownership. For years, she’s been just plain ignorant. She gets no praise from us for finally waking up and doing what she should have been doing before attempting to write anything that even remotely mentionied Apple for all of these years.
We purposely torture ourselves with the latest Windows OS, so that we can confidently describe it as the crap that it is. We’ve actually tried to use Microsoft Zunes and more than one Windows phone. Yawn and yuck, respectively. For years, Foley has maligning Apple products as “expensive” and much worse without ever even trying them. She’s been describing Apple product users as snobs and much worse, without ever trying the products so she could understand why discerning people would choose a MacBook Pro over whatever POS Dell that Costco has in the bargain bin today. She just doesn’t get it and it’s totally her own fault.
In the full article today, she admits, “If I had felt there was a compelling Windows slate that would ship this year, I’d have refrained happily from buying an iPad.” So, whatever she writes today is notable only for her finally using an Apple product, not for her opinion, pro or con, because it’s utterly uninformed and therefore biased and of no use to anyone.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “GetMeOnTop!” for the heads up.]
@ Mary Jo
If you read this, please try to understand where I’m coming from.
Once in a while, to see clearly, you need to blink, and maybe stop staring at Windows all day long.
So MJ wishes that Apple apps were more “Windows friendly”. You mean as in hit “Start” when you want to stop, and “ShutDown” when you want to log out? That kind of friendly?
When my wife converted me to Macs the hardest part of it all was forgetting how to do things the hard way, e.g. “No, dear, you don’t need to edit the registry. Just drag that app to the trash can icon.” Or, “No, you don’t need to load camera drivers, just say ‘yes’ when it says it sees a camera and asks if you want to download the pictures.”
MJ’s remaining angst is simply that iOS is not Windows. I have a secret for her: iOS is really a stripped down version of OS X. The little OOS you’re so in love with is exactly what you’d find on a Mac with OS X, just in case you want to lock yourself in the bathroom and try a Mac someday.
The Apple application that is most friendly with Windows is called OS X. It runs on hardware that allows you to run a full session of Windows concurrently. I run it fullscreen on a second monitor attached to my elegant, space-saving iMac.
Try it.
Correct. You can run Bootcamp or the virtual machine Parallels.
Can run Windows on your Mac. I have been using Virtual PC
for years on my old PPC, Sawtooth, G4, and it still runs Windows
95, XP and Red Hat Linux. Also run Mac OS 9.2. Fabulous Machine
that I still ran turbo tax on until last year. Runs OS X Tiger. Also
have original IPad and new IPad mini with retina. Waited until
they came down in price. Bought an IPhone 4s with IOS 7 on it
for $150.00 and put a wrap around steel case on it with double
glass screen case for protection, price of 15 dollars. Looks like new.
@ macslut
“That’s not so simple. Football wasn’t coined as a term because of the use of the foot and the ball, but rather it was a game with a ball played “on foot” as opposed to on a horse. The original basis for both football and soccer was the same game. “
Made me laugh anyway…
Football: the Scotch Professor’s game was invented long before anyone thought to put on 300 pounds, protect themselves with uniforms stitched together from old kitchen sponges and run at one another whilst not using their feet.
so this technology expert has never bought… or used…an apple product before?
dear lord……..
*facepalm
My first Mac was a Mac Iici built in 1988. I learned how to use
my first Mac on it. Owned every beige Mac between that and
the first Mac G4. All of these machines are still working and run
all of the original software and games from the early days. Mary
Joe really missed out on a lot of great stuff.
She bought a Zune instead of a iPod Touch??? LOL WTF?
Maybe she thought that the ‘Ballmer discount’ on the Zune was too good to pass up on.
But really, she must really hate Apple.
I bought a Zune for my wife because she wanted a cheap
music player. We lost it and I could care less. Caveat. I have
never lost anything in my life that I thought had good utility.
Missed the most revealing phrase…
Thanks for your assessment of Mary Jo’s article but you missed the best phrase-“iPad for Windows Dummies”
If this lady makes her living writing about M$ products she should seriously start looking for another job. It won’t be long now.
> I’m a PC.
How embarrassing… Almost no one who is a Mac user says, “I’m a Mac.” Mac users generally consider themselves to be unique beings. “I’m a Mac” is what that actor says in those commercials. On the other hand, Windows PC users seem happy to be part of the “herd” mentality and say things like “I’m a PC,” just because Microsoft told them it’s cool.
(Actually, I’m sure most Windows PC users don’t go around saying “I’m a PC” either. Only the most misguided and pathetic…)
> This is the first Apple product I’ve ever owned.
Really? I would have never guessed. Now watch as you buy another and then another, until “I’m a PC” becomes a distant memory. But then, you’d probably have to find a new job, so maybe not…
Mary Jo Foley speaking positively about an Apple product seems to be a bit like hearing Judas say, “I believe in Jesus now.”
wtf???
That wench has been whoring herself for MS for so long that it’s amazingly difficult to wrap my mind around possibility of her being even remotely serious about her newfound iPad love.
Perhaps she has had an epiphany and realized she’s been on the wrong side of the tech world for far too long.
Either way, because of her previous life of shilling for MS, I’ll never be able to take her seriously so, no big loss.
“”Association football, or soccer, has long been a mainstream sport in the United States. It is the most popular recreational sport for both boys and girls and has been so for more than 30 years.”
I suppose………..if you count the 75% of the players on the field who run around a bit while 2 or 3 players actually do anything directly involving the ball.
I have tried dozens of times to watch it………………can hang in for a full game if girl friends kids are involved…….otherwise………. yawn
@ kenh
OMG… like Baseball is exciting to watch. ><
How about the seventh-inning-hang-my-fucking-self-off-the-skybox.
Some people actually go out and… you know… DO sports. I love mounting biking but it’s dull as sin to sit on my ass and watch.
Did someone drop an anvil on this TechTard journalist’s head?
Or did Microsoft forget to slip her the graft this week?
Or did she finally start taking her Lithium?
FTA: “I’m not planning to dump my Windows machine for the iPad. I am using the iPad as a consumption device, not a creation device (at least for now).”
When has she ever created anything except abject misery?
So she chose an iPad because no PC vendor could copy it fast enough… Definitely not praise worthy. The only thing that saved her from suffering from her ignorance and idiocy is the even greater incompetence of the Windows PC industry.
Wow… you people are assholes.
@ Bad Ole Dog:
I got that too.
I have to admit also that every time I’m in the book store and see “Windows for Dummies” I laugh SO HARD that milk comes out of my nose. Even when I haven’t been drinking milk that day.
Wow… Like a group of piranhas, attack ’til there’s no flesh left on the bone. You guys really are insane. Never visited a “Mac” site before, now I know why.
Is this what “thinking different” does to you? Seriously, 90% of you need to seek professional help.
*reads the incendiary and vindictive posts* Wow, they were right. You guys ARE zealots. Guys. It’s just a computer. Not the Ark of the Covenant.
Mary Jo is entitled to her opinion just as you are.
You guys all fuckin suck, why don’t you crawl out of your mom’s basement and stop acting like a bunch of elitist assholes. Get a fuckin clue you shit eating cock mongers, your brand sucks huge balls and the only reason why it has taken off is because Stevie knows how to market to a bunch of fuckin morons. Yeah that’s all of you.
and BTW when kids are younger they play a lot of soccer prolly b/c it’s less dangerous.
fuckin morons
What no Linux fan boys here to rub Apple’s nose in the fact they FINALLY gave up their POS MacOS and adopted a real OS like Linux and put their pretty GUI on top of it??
yup sounds like elitist hypocrites to me…
I really appreciate the tone of this blog and these responses. Thank you for confirming for me why I’m uninterested in Apple products. If you are a representative sample of users, you characterize yourselves as smug, condescending zealots, evangelical if not fundamentalist about your OS and your hardware. Now that you’ve reached enlightenment, best wishes.
All of you people (the arrogant asses and the author of this article) are sub-human douche-bags. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. I have only Mac products, but I certainly don’t want to be associated with a bunch of elitist jerks, who are constantly measuring themselves against others by a fucking computer product. You are a discrace to humanity. I’m sure S. Jobs would echo the same thing to all of you. Why don’t you show some self constraint, politeness, and diplomacy?
They pay trolls like they used to. Give someone minimum wage and they give you minimum wage performance.
Case in point: You can track the postings of today’s TardTroll by merely searching for the word:
“wow”
lazy lazy lazy
Microsoft: Pay more, get better troll posts.
Repair: “They don’t pay trolls like they used to.”
Time for more coffee