Take a look at this pile of conceit and condescension:
Scoble has a piece today on Apple’s brand promise that nails it precisely, never seen him hit the mark so well. Congrats. The other day at lunch I was telling the Uncov guys that despite what they may think, Scoble really is brilliant. Read this piece, I feel completely vindicated (though sometimes I read his stuff and shake my head in disbelief at how he could be so wrong).
Dave never ceases to amaze me with things like this. How could any normal person write a paragraph like that, and about someone they call a friend? If Scoble wrote that about Dave, he’d have hell to pay.
They will break us, I’m sure of it. If I told you how, they’d unleash a storm of hate at me very much like what you get when you criticize Apple.
Irony, thy name is Dave Winer. First of all… Dave has been “sliming” Google for as long as I can remember. He’s the Commander-in-Chief of Google FUD. To say nothing of the hate-storm that he himself directs at anyone who disagrees with him or questions him in a way in which he doesn’t approve.
Later he criticizes Apple for hypocrisy and lack of humility. If you submitted Dave as a character in a pilot of a TV show, he’d be tossed as being too unbelievable.
This is something of a cheap-shot, but I laughed when I read it:
The error messages say something isn’t operational, which isn’t really a word in the English language.
As for the main point of his post, I agree with it. I use both Macs and PCs. My PCs work better. My Macs work pretty well, too, but they’re a long way from “just working.” That said, Dave is not a credible source for this, since he’s demonstrated, time and again, his complete inability to figure out easy pieces of tech that weren’t designed specifically for him.
“As for the main point of his post, I agree with it. I use both Macs and PCs. My PCs work better.”
I use both macs and pcs also. My macs work far better. And If I had the choice (I don’t) I’d work strictly with macs. That doesn’t mean they’re better, or that you’re wrong. I simply prefer them. In other words, since a thousand opinions would be all over the board with that argument the best one can say is “macs/ pcs work best for me”.
The rest of your opinion is spot on, however. Winer’s opinion should be ignored for two reasons.
1. He will play with new technology for 2 minutes, not get it, and say “it sucks”.
2. He has the same relationship wth technology that he has with people. If he likes it he’ll build it up until he’s bored, or just wants to use his influence, and then he tears them down. It matters not if apple is doing the right thing or not, nor google. Winer will eventually tear them down. The same will happen with twitter. Luckily, the legions that take him as entertainment over reality is growing larger.
I should’ve been more clear…
I LIKE my Mac better, but it crashes (has ever since I bought it) multiple times a day and it’s far slower than an inferiorly outfitted PC.
So as much as I’d love to make a full switch, it’s just not in the cards.
That said, I believe that my PC is as stable as it is because I built it from raw materials instead of just getting a Dell, or something, that comes with a ton of pre-loaded crapware.