“I honestly thought there would never come a time where I would buy a Mac. Ever,” Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com and billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, reports via his blog.
“Then I upgraded my PC to Vista. What a disaster. I had grown accustomed to my PC freezing every now and then. Enter Vista and my PC was frozen more often than it was working. The biggest culprit was MicroSoft Outlook,” Cuban writes.
“I had gotten to the point where I was embarrassed to be a PC owner,” Cuban writes.
“So a few months ago I made the executive decision to buy a MacBook to replace my laptop,” Cuban writes. “I haven’t looked back.”
“Its not that there aren’t hassles with the Mac. There are two. One there isn’t a version of Outlook for the Mac. As someone who has more than 10 years and gigabytes worth of emails in multiple outlook files, the concept of exporting and importing won’t fly. So I am keeping my PC Desktop purely to download my emails into Outlook so I have a master database. But I only do so after deleting unimportant emails from the server using my Macbook,” Cuban writes.
MacDailyNews Take: Mark, meet Little Machines’ $10 Outlook to Mac (O2M). Buh-bye, so-called “hassle” number one. Please dispose of that PC in an environmentally sound manner.
Cuban continues, “The 2nd problem is the lack of the right mouse click. I know it’s a Mac thing to only have one button, but it’s a hassle. Sure there are work arounds, none of which are quick and easy for a longtime PC user.”
MacDailyNews Take: Mark, meet any USB mouse, including Apple’s Mighty Mouse, and also say “Hello” to your MacBook’s System Preferences’ Keyboard and Mouse pane where you can find the option to “Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click” under “Trackpad.” Click the box, Mark. Some “work around,” huh? What’s not “quick and easy” about that, even for a longtime PC sufferer? So, buh-bye, so-called “hassle” number two. We’re now down to zero hassles on Mark Cuban’s Mac.
Cuban continues, “I’m not an Apple fanboy, but I love me some MacBook!”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Welcome, Mark, you “Apple fanboy,” you (even if you won’t admit it)!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “RadDoc” for the heads up.]
If Cuban is such a loser, how the hell did he become a billionaire?
Did he pull a right place, right time, Bill Gates, horseshoes up the ass maneuver?
Ugh, I had that same problem with two of my friends. We were at the Apple Store, because one of them was having his iPod repaired. He was saying how even he had to admit that the new iMacs were beautiful, but he just couldn’t get over the lack of a right click. So I walk over to the iMac, which had a Mighty Mouse attached, and right-clicked. Both of them were floored. They had no idea. Morons. I mean, I love my friends and everything, but they’re those Windows sufferers with Stockholm syndrome, who are stuck 10 years in the past.
I really think we just need to get all the people like that down to the Apple Store, and show them how every single one of their idiotic preconceived notions are wrong.
@ Big Al
He did. He really did. He found a corner on the market and exploited it. Only difference is he sold it.
From Wiki, “In 1995, Cuban and fellow Indiana University alum Todd Wagner started Audionet, combining their mutual interest in college basketball and webcasting. With a single server and ISDN line,[15] Audionet became Broadcast.com in 1998. By 1999, Broadcast.com had grown to 330 employees and annual revenues near $100 million.[16] During the Dot-com boom, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo!, and Cuban received $5.9 billion in Yahoo! stock.[17]”
What happened to Todd Wagner when the buy out happened?
Cuban became a millionaire is what happened.
If my name was Mark Cuban I would call my band Missile Crisis.
Not to be confused with Bubblegum Crisis. (or the related string cheese incident)
Looking back on it, I think I prefer Crisis Missile.
And my day was interupted by Mark Cuban’s decision to switch? And this was important because…………………………..?
All that $$$$ and he can’t afford a MacBook Pro?????
Welcome to the Light Side of the Force. The Mac is easy to use. Stop thinking like a PC. And for God sake, buy Parallels and stop whinning about not being able to use Outlook. Sheeessh
Outlook is pure E V I L . My God, you have to hand it to Microsuck, they created a bear trap of an email client. Leave it and you’ll have to at least sever a leg. E V I L .
I could give a fsck what computer Mark Cuban uses. He’s an idiot.
Go Warriors!
Mark Cuban is an idiot & his putting up with Windows for so long is proof of that. Besides the points he sites as “faults with the Mac” before even looking into what the facts truly are first. Typical of most Wndows users who make up excuses why they dislike the Mac & put up with their handicapped Windows PCs.
But there’s nothing more that I can’t stand than a wealthy person with no class, like the Maloof brothers – drinking a bottle of 5 grand wine with a cheeseburger. Just a commercial or not, they probably think that’s pretty cool, more wealthy idiots with no class…
I couldn’t care less what Mark Cuban thinks or does.
Great for Mark. It does take some time to become an expert Mac user after years of Windows use (abuse). I go back and forth between OSX and Windows everyday and there are a few, very few, things that I like about Windows better.
My Contacts-to-Mac problem was solved even easier by the iPhone. I can sync to the PC at work for all my contacts and appointments and later sync at home to the Mac. Bingo.
Hello? Unless he is talking about offline folders, Apple Mail works great with Exchange servers and OMiC is a excellent way to fix the WINMAIL.DAT file issue and get calendar events into iCal!
These “problems” he mentions are ridiculous! WHY DOES THE EDITOR OF THE ARTICLE OR SOMEONE THERE NOT EVEN KNOW MACS HAVE 2 BUTTON MOUSES?” The media is such BS and can throw out lies that the public believes to know end. Drives me NUTS!
Seriously, you have to take care of your hemorrhoids.
fuck u guys im doing a report on mark cuban and your just jelous u and your mom or dad cant make there own busnisses so there u go u fucks