“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.]
Quote: (I’m still torn as to whether I like reading better on the Kindle or using the Kindle app on the iPad)
Isn’t there a different option? Did Apple cancel iBooks?
Sheesh.
Quote: (I’m still torn as to whether I like reading better on the Kindle or using the Kindle app on the iPad)
Isn’t there a different option? Did Apple cancel iBooks?
Sheesh.
Quote: (I’m still torn as to whether I like reading better on the Kindle or using the Kindle app on the iPad)
Isn’t there a different option? Did Apple cancel iBooks?
Sheesh.
Quote: (I’m still torn as to whether I like reading better on the Kindle or using the Kindle app on the iPad)
Isn’t there a different option? Did Apple cancel iBooks?
Sheesh.
Quote: (I’m still torn as to whether I like reading better on the Kindle or using the Kindle app on the iPad)
Isn’t there a different option? Did Apple cancel iBooks?
Sheesh.
Zune for iPad?
Stupidest thing I ever read, ever!
HAHAHA!!
@One Guy From Finland,
Yep, soccer is very popular for both boys and girls in the US. More popular than other sports here that can be more dangerous or are less team oriented. You can see toddlers out on the field here. And it’s a huge family thing…mom drives a mini-van full of kids and either hangs out with other moms, or goes shopping, or swigs some vodka and hits on younger guys at the mall.
Soccer isn’t catching on beyond that because there really isn’t much room for it as a pro sport with all the other pro sports we have. If we were to do well in the World Cup, it might make a difference, but for now those who are into soccer and care about the World Cup are a totally different demographic from those who are into pro basketball, baseball, football, hockey, etc…
As far as the soccer versus football…
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. However, the sport evolved differently in the US and England. In the US as the sport evolved it was named football…this came first. In England, they copied the US when they formed the Association of Football.
In other words, the US used the term football first, and used it to describe a sport that evolved into what we know today, while England copied the name of the sport, but applied it to the set of rules that (in the US) we know as soccer.
The etymology of soccer starts with “association” -> socca -> soccer.
In any case, the US isn’t likely to change the name of *two* sports…and even if we did, it may result in the same issue happening all over again. Suppose we change soccer to football…we’d need to prefix that with something to know it was new football (soccer), so we’d do something like call it World Cup Football…but eventually that may end up being shortened to “worldcup” or “cupball” or whatever.
Typical MS whore (and not because you’re female, Mary) – hasn’t used Apple products but trashes them anyway and drools over MS products, whereas 99% of Mac users have had way more experience with Windohs than they wanted to have.
I welcome all from the Dark Side Mary Jo Foley. So, now that you stuck your head out into the day light, will you run back into your cave or see why Apple products and services are embraced by users that will not go into the dark again of their own will?
HAVE YOU REALLY SEEN THE LIGHT OR HAVE YOU ALREADY PULL BACK INTO THE CAVE?
@ChrissyOne
Nailed it.
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@ONe guy from finland.
“Why do you say soccer mom? Nobody plays soccer in the US?
Why don’t you say American Football Mom??”
In America, a ‘soccer mom” is a mom who spends her time ferrying her kids to and from soccer matches. She does not play.
Just a thought,
en
Foley is one of the biggest idiots on the web. There should be laws to prevent people like her from blogging.
@One Guy From Finland
> Really? And you still haven’t learned to call it what it is? ie Football
In Australia it’s also soccer, and in Italy it’s Calcio. Who cares what it’s called, as long as it’s played, and getting stronger here. (It is.)
PS…
My friend is a long time MS user. She even coded in DOS. Loves the pc.
Recently she bought a first gen iPhone. Loved it. played with it.
Recently she decided she is going to buy a MacBook Pro. OF course she plans to load it with MS software….. for now…… maybe… LOL
Some convert easier than others. Me….. I hate pain and suffering. LOL
Just a thought,
en
So, Mary Jo Foley was the person that bought the Zune HD. I have never seen a Zune on the street any where at any time. However, I did see Zune accessory stuff once or twice on a shelf.
Did anyone other than Mary buy a Zune? If so, Steve ballmer thanks you very much. He also would love to know what you were thinking and how can he duplicate your mistake!
If Mary Jo truly wanted a “compelling Windows slate” all she has to do is wait…
and wait…
and wait…
Anyone who read another word from this woman after she predicted that Ballmer would attend WWDC to announce Silverlight for the iPhone deserves the searing pain in their eyeballs that this tripe no doubt causes.
http://themacadvocate.com/2010/05/27/dear-google-thanks-for-the-absurdity/
Mary Ho..er…Jo,
This is your first step toward actual credibility by finally actually using a product you have been paid to poop for years.
I’d bet that at least secretly you’ll soon buy another Apple product.
Clark Howards wife bought a Mac and now all you can hear are Apple praises after he has pooped them for years and years.
Foley ranks up there with Enderle. They both praise their taskmaster, Steve Ballmer. At least they know which side their bread is buttered.
“I am not an early adopter or someone who rushes out to buy the latest/greatest gadget.”
Ya, I really want to listen to a tech blogger who avoids new technology. Guess it’s appropriate she blogs about the Microsoft, she’s ahead of the curve there. Glad you are starting to see the light biotch. First ipad, then full conversion. Just don’t blog about it.
“But I never wanted to be part of the Apple community because I have had so many negative, hostile and condescending interactions with not just Apple fanboys, but regular Apple users. If that’s what “thinking different” was, I wanted no parts.”
That`s where I stopped reading. Listen Blo Job Mary when you spend years talking shit about something or someone and the reaction you get is generally negative.
Kapeesh?
The fact that MJ bought an iPad makes no difference at all. She’s been biased for so long that I doubt she’ll enjoy it…
Apparently MDN has failed to notice that a) Apple products ARE expensive and b) you can (maybe) save money by going the PC route.
DUH ! ! !
So … why do my wife and I own THREE Macs? Because, for what we want to do, they are less expensive! For WoW, email and non-p0rn surfing, a <$500 PC is just fine thanks. And there IS NO <$500 Mac. You want GarageBand or any of a dozen other possibilities, you need to spend more. Suddenly the price tilts in the Mac’s favor. But … only if you need “more”. Like … “security”.
Wrong. I purchased a Mac Mini and put 8 gigs of RAM in it.
Bought it at Best Buy new for $454.00. It has an I5 processor
and runs Mac OSX Mavericks. Waiting for Yosemite. Already
had the mouse, KB and 24 inch HD display.
ChrissyOne needs to write MDN takes.
@ DLMeyer
The point that you missed today was that Mary Jo oversimplifies the cost issue. Rather than go into detail about why Macs are better for you, she simply writes “Macs are expensive” in the most simple-minded and literal sense. No thoughts on cost of ownership, time spent fixing WIndows problems, general angst and pissed-offedness, etc.
Macs aren’t expensive if you know what to buy. I bought a refurbished MacBook white and put a black shell on it
with a black rubberized keyboard key cover. It looks like
new and came with a new battery. Has a 2.16 Ghz processor and
3 gigs of RAM. Doesn’t have alot of video RAM but I don’t use
it for graphic design. With Rosetta, it runs all legacy apps on
Snow Leopard which I tweaked to look like Mavericks. With Mac
Google Chrome Apps and Docs, it does everything. Has Pages
and MS full version Office and all of the other bells and whistles.
It cost me $199.00 and replaces my PPC, IBook, which still looks
like new and runs great. That IBook only cost me $244.00.