"This has Bill Hobbs rethinking his computer purchases. He's looking at a Dell Inspiron 700m in place of an Apple. I have one of those, and as I noted earlier, I've been quite happy with it. But now when people ask me why I don't own a Mac, I can blame Apple's heavy-handed tactics," writes Glenn Reynolds:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said yesterday it would defend bloggers' right to protect anonymous sources who disclosed that Apple would release a product code-named "Asteroid." A lawyer for the group said it's one of the first cases nationwide, if not the first case, that would address whether Web loggers, or bloggers, can protect confidential sources. Apple filed the suit last week in California.
"I think that bloggers should have the same rights (no more, no less) that other journalists possess under applicable law," writes InstaPundit. "But I'm pretty sure that Apple wouldn't have subpoenaed bigshot journalists at all.
We're still here in Precision 420 territory. Probably five years old by now. We started with NT and moved on to XP . . . went with PCs instead of Macs for two reasons way back when: 1) At the Design School -- THE Design School, dontcha know -- in the "late nineties" the Macs were a joke, always crashing. 2) Our MIT man in the know, Mark, advised us that all the software would be designed for PCs. But now, as The Professor says, "when people ask me why I don't own a Mac, I can blame Apple's heavy-handed tactics."
The number one reason I have PCs rather than Macs is the linear upgrade path. The machine I'm posting this on is the same one I built seven years ago, except that the case, power supply, mother board, drives, video card, sound card and modem have each been replaced more than once, independently, usually with scavenged components.
The other reason is that back when the Mac might have been an option, Mac users self identified as "addicts" and I want no part of that.
Posted by: triticale | January 13, 2005 at 10:30 PM
If we were to buy computers based solely on the legal beagle "heavy-handedness" of their manufacturers or OS providers the whole world would be using Mac OS. Bill Gates & Microsoft et.al. redefined the term "heavy-handed". So the heck with that excuse.
As for the lawsuit, Apple has gotten a lot of press right at the time they are releasing new products. What a shame, eh?
Posted by: The Proprietor | January 14, 2005 at 09:44 AM