“I’ve been in denial for a while, but it hit me so hard yesterday that I finally have to admit it: I’m an Apple fanboy,” Mike Elgan reports for Cult of Mac. “Once you hear my story, you’ll agree that if it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.”
“During the 1990s, the only time I saw a Mac was whenever I [as managing editor] ventured into the design and production ghetto of our editorial offices. That’s right: Windows Magazine was designed and laid out on Macs,” Elgan reports. “Besides that, I was deep, deep in the world of Windows. I wrote a monthly opinion column, as well as reviews and “how-to” articles about Windows. During my time at Windows Magazine, I probably wrote maybe 1,000 “tips” for tweaking, optimizing and surviving Windows. My talks and panel participation at trade shows was all about Windows. Bill Gates even quoted me in one of his books. I was about as much of a ‘Windows guy’ as you could get.”
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Elgan reports, “Then [yesterday] it hit me: I’m not only an Apple fanboy, I’m a pathetically devoted one. I’ve got the latest iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, iMac and now I’m fricken wearing an iPod wristwatch? Wow… If Apple can turn the editor of Windows Magazine into a fanboy, no one is safe.”
Find out how Elgan finally saw the light in the full article – and don’t skip the comments – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dow C.,” “Jax44,” “Lava_Head_UK,” “Opportun,” “Guillermo Y.,” and “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Do we wear iPod nano wristwatches? Only on the rare occasions when we actually wear wristwatches. (FYI: We use the TikTok to strap our nanos to our wrists.)
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