“Well, that was interesting. I just thought I’d try to bask a little longer in the afterglow of yesterday’s firestorm over my simple declaration that my wife and I had a hard time getting an Apple product up and running with anywhere near the simplicity that lore would have them possess,” Steve Johnson writes for The Chicago Tribune. “I managed to post more than 180 comments and there were another 80 or so that were either too obscene, too repetitive or just plain too many to put up before I turned off the ‘comments’ feature. I’ll attempt to summarize and respond to the main threads of the, um, conversation.”
Full article here.
A weak response from an “Internet critic” who still doesn’t understand the reason why he had an issue and who would do better in the future by sticking to critiquing the Internet and leaving the product criticisms to those who possess at least basic tech knowledge.
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Columnist blames Apple because his Windows PCs failed to work with iTunes – February 08, 2006
O.K. so the fool got a bunch of clicks.
Next topic, please.
It’s a shame though the guy now thinks all Mac users are a-holes. Nevermind the fact that it’s not a Mac he is getting fired up about, it still goes as a black eye against mac users.
Nice pub stunt wack job.
This guy is an idiot.
http://musobs.blogspot.com/
I’m sorry, but that guy asked for it with the whole “cultist” thing. I hope their screen gets scratched.
No – he’s not an idiot. He’s an excellent fisherman. Threw out some tasty bait and got a whole barrel of fish.
Suckers.
Just another newspaper stunt to see if anyones tuned in to their useless drivel.
I hope the response from the Mac Universe took their email server out.
Mac users are not A-holes. We’re sensitive folks who don’t like our favorite toys bashed by some numb-nut idiot. Perhaps he’ll think twice before inciting another email riot by publicly admitting he’s a dumb f@%K with a lousey PC and somehow that makes it ok to low crawl Apple software.
He ought to know the PC drill by now, erase your hard disk, do a clean install of Windows, then do all your service pack updates, then install iTunes.
Damn, still didn’t work, driver conflict with the Creative Soundblaster Card.
I believe and have written it many times, columnists write articles like this, offending Apple users, cultist or whatever, just so they get people to come to the site and read their articles.
Simple premise I think. His article site gets outrageous amount of hits, as does the main site. He gets to tell his editor look how well my column is doing, “I get so many hits” etc..
I really feel Apple users should not read the columns, or at least not email the writer or post comments. We’re only helping these people in the long run.
They only write these articles to get the response they have. And Apple people fall for it every tiime.
And by the way I read his response to the comments, and this guy is a very weak writer IMO. It’s truly amazing how a “tech” writer can purchase an iPod fully aware it doesn’t have a radio, and then write a column critical of the company. That’s what makes this particular writer so weak in his profession.
Write about Apple just to get attention to a columnist who most likely has a tiny, tiny readership. No he feels like a big shot.And Apple users helped him.
Ignore these “writers” folks.
Mac user is passionate. A lot of third class hungry writers know that. It is a tried and true phish tactic they employ to get hits. This stupid moron not only insult his wife’s intelligent his own, his chief editor’s and degraded the standard of “journalism”. DO NOT GIVE HIM ANY RESPONSE!!!!
As predicted all the Apple fanatics gave him all the firepower he needed to make good points AGAINST Apple. But, people are idiots, and fanatics will always hurt the cause they hold onto so dearly, wether it’s Apple, or crazy Liberals, die hard Conservatives, Muslim extremists, or Fundamentalist stamp collectors.
I actually enjoyed it. It was pretty funny and spot on about people being maniacs unnecessarily. Honey or vinegar, guys and gals. Try insulting someone on a first date and see how far that gets you. I’ll do like to vent on these threads usually in sarcasm but that’s entirely different than some of the bizarre and sinister lashes on that guy’s talkback. I agree with Macromancer.
G Spank: I’ve notified the Holy Order of Worldwide Philatelists of your blasphemy. Expect the glue on the stamps of all the bills you just mailed to mysteriously evaporate. You have been warned.
Macromancer wrote: “It’s a shame though the guy now thinks all Mac users are a-holes.”
He fscking thought we were “cultists” from the get go, so who cares what the moron thinks of us now? He got what he deserved. Let the stupid fsck keep banging away on his Gateway, getting crippled by malware, having zero concept of iLife or Mac OS X, and passing viruses onto his retarded wife and dull friends.
Since he brought it up, the Ask Marilyn column is somewhat devious, as Parade magazine bills her as being listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the world’s highest IQ, and failing to mention as a teenager. Her answers suggest a significant loss of intelligence since then, presumably from having children. Just sayin’…
Plan implemented.
Plan concluded.
Results achieved.
MWA-, MWA- MWAAAAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The prick is a friggin jagoff and I told him to go ‘eff himself.
Cultist, phaaah.
Apple is my job, my hobby, and my enjoyment.
MDN might as well just start issuing fatwas.
I, uh, actually think he has a point. Out of all of the Windows installations onto which a PC user attempts to install iTunes, there have always been a small-but-sizable number of reports of problems. So he had a problem too. So? You think no Mac user has ever had a problem installing iTunes? Get real, cultists.
Let’s all ‘fess up and come clean. The guy wasn’t trolling for hits, he was relating an experience. Stop screaming conspiracy with every other breath.
Evil_MS_User: he was relating an experience.
Then the jagoff didn’t need to start off with “cultists”, he should have said, “I was was of the unfortunate but tiny number of people who had difficulty.”
OMG, I’m agreeing with the Evil_MS_User. It’s armageddon. We’re talking real fire and brimstone here! Dogs and cats sleeping together! End of the world stuff! Next thing you know Apple’s gonna ditch the PowerPC for Intel. Oh wait. Never mind.
What he got were hits. Those 180 should never have taken the bait. As passionate as we are with Apple products, we should always stop and think before we fire off our 2 cents. I’m starting to see more and more of ‘writers’ like this guy who type out incendiary columns just to attract Mac ‘cultists.’ Pathetic as it may be, it’s working and because we allow ourselves to get all worked up because of their ignorance and stupidity.
Amper you #$%^&* liberal freaking hippie, get off this site!!!!
My favorite attempt at a slam by a Windows PC user was “Smackintush”.
Can we all get along?
I HATE THE STAMPS YOU DON’T HAVE TO LICK ANY MORE!
HUNGER STRIKE!!!!!!!
At least I’m not trolling for ad clicks like the newspaper guy is. He always hated Apple (he’s jealous and insecure) and he PLANNED to make a crisis out of the iPod even before it arrived. Imagine his glee when his Windows machine actually had a problem just as he hoped! And then the response of his wet dreams, a bunch of Mac user emails so he could select mostly crazy ones to print! Life is good.
Leave him to rot in his little world. He deserves our pity, not our clicks.