“For a long time, David Alison was a Mac hater,” Beth Snyder Bulik reports for Advertising Age. “In fact, one of the avatars he used was the face of actor John Hodgman, the PC guy in Apple’s ‘Get a Mac’ ads. As a software developer, he was heavily invested in and committed to Windows. While he had been a longtime iPod fan, it hadn’t been enough to get him to switch.”
Snyder Bulik reports, “But then last year his friends started buying iPhones and making the switch — ‘guys like me, who didn’t really care for Macs.’ And when the latest Windows operating system, Vista, came out, ‘It didn’t do anything for me,’ Mr. Alison said. ‘The very initial version was really a mess.'”
“So he went to an Apple store,” Snyder Bulik reports. “The clean, simple and friendly experience convinced him it was time to consider a Mac, and now, six months after his first MacBook purchase, he has added a desktop Mac Pro and another MacBook Pro.”
“Mr. Alison’s experience is not unusual. Blog after blog chronicles the move from Windows to Mac operating systems,” Snyder Bulik reports.
Full article here.
So what’s new?? People are getting smarter
I know this is the wrong article for this question, but is anyone else receiving a “invalid username/password” on the MobileMe website? I do, even though my mac and iphone are syncing with the same username and pw.
Once you’ve tried MAC, you won’t go back…
Who could have thought 11th of July 2008 would be such a slow Apple news day that you need to fill it with “Me too bought a Mac” story from yesterday’s Advertising Age.
But it’s good to see such an article in a non-tech magazine like Advertising Age. Opens up the minds of still a few more people.
Free publicity. Can’t beat it.
@Toljaso, I’ve always liked Media Access Control. And Macs, too!
To Maconymous: I did too. But it worked when I re-entered it.
Please note: MobileMe works fine for me in FireFox 3.
But it will not work in Safari 4 Developer Preview.
What I find amazing is that a software developer, of all people would, hate the Mac and OS X. It is hands down the best development environment there is.
Personally I think that it is silly for anyone to limit their OS experience to just one operating system and judge the others as deficient.
apple could do with a positive spin today
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David Alison’s blog, http://www.davidalison.com/ is a good read.
As he is new to the Mac, he is still looking for programs that either 1) replace something he used on Windows, or 2) make the Mac experience better in general.
I’ve been using Macs since ’84, and I still learn things from his blog.
Highly recommended!
In the end, operating system loyalty and religions are the same. When people finally wise up, they have invested so much time and energy into it that they decide it’s just too much hassle to switch.
But once you let go, you are finally free!
I use both PCs and Macs on a regular basis and neither one of them really stands out to me. But since I can get the same performance for half the cost on a PC, and with a much wider range of software options, I really don’t see why anybody would buy a mac instead of a PC. Although I have noticed that most of the mac users I know are entirely ignorant of how to use a computer… but that’s just anecdotal evidence.
Lol wut… You sound like you fit nicely into a beige, nondescript world. Do you have MS Office certification?
I chuckle…
I used to be a Mac-hater too, but now I can’t stand computing on anything other than a Mac. I had never used a mac before in my life until I went to a highschool that used Macs. As soon as I used them, I loved them. I then switched all the computers in my house over to macs, and we aren’t going back!!!
@Lol wut:
Astroturf much?
@say wut: I that is totally not true, and its a complete stereotype. I know how to do pretty much anything on a PC, it just takes twice as long… and its just dumb the way the menus are laid out… not to bash the *cough* windows GUI. *cough*
*lol wut, not say wut, sorry…
Lol Wut,
If you actually used a Mac on a regular basis you wouldn’t be making a moronic statement like that. I would have to say that you are a lying sack of crap. Anybody second that motion?
sure bill, I’ll second that…
@ lol wut: does your “wide range of software options” include viruses?
@MacLovin
I am curious. How can you hate a platform that you have never used? Then when you finally try it, you become a convert. I see so many comments by people who seem to think that the WinTel environment is the only viable one and for Apple to put forth something different is something to be hated for its difference. Maybe you can explain this?
Thanks,
@lol wut
I disagree. My Mac runs both OSs and there is no way XP can keep up with OS X.
XP cannot boot from an external hard drive and it can only address 4GB of RAM, a third of which is sucked up by XP.
Vista quickly compromises weenie PCs and forget about ANY pleasure from 64-bit computing.
You say half the cost, I say liar!
Time to make another batch of kool aid.
Those “get a Mac” ads are really clever. They basically annoy the Mac haters enough over time so that they eventually have to consider getting a Mac. This particular guy even adopted PC’s face as a self-imposed reminder. And once they actually consider and try a Mac, they make the switch.
One of the embedded ads on MacDailyNews has been infected with spyware. I was reading this article (on Leopard, of course), when the Safari window suddenly closed, a new window popped up saying that my Vista computer was infected and I needed to download their software. No Microsoft operating systems are running here at all.