Comment Re:Nerd Rage is the Funniest Rage (Score 0, Troll) 1217
I've seen your website and appreciate the high quality and creativity of your graphics. Your site is concise and nicely designed.
Besides web design, I've produced 3D animation and post production for architectural renderings and music videos for 15 years, all on PC-based software. Most Mac users insist my work can't be done on a PC, then become very defensive and insulting when I confront them about the shear irrationality of their attitudes.
I'm not interested in banning your platform or telling you what you should be allowed to use for production, but most Mac users I've run across feel the need to ban all PCs and rob everyone else of their choices. Maybe it's more about a smug arrogance and neurosis of control, but that's a pretty big contradiction coming from an outfit that hails itself as being on the forefront of creativity.
Allow me to point out major problems with your "real world" analysis.
Macs are non-existent in the world of server applications; Apple has little if any software addressing those needs.
Despite all the propaganda, most people are using PCs to produce music, and many graphic artists are also PC-based.
Macs need little maintenance because their applications offer so few options, unlike Windows and Linux. It's also ironic you sight UNIX being accessible on Apple's OS. Mac users have been notorious for having a coronary whenever they see a DOS prompt or have to do any command-line typing. UNIX is a superior but vastly more complex OS than DOS.
As to kids being unable to play games, that's because very few game developers have ever been Mac-based, which is further proof of Apple's tiny niche market.
Your claim about Macs getting very few viruses omits the main reason why: so few Apple users exist on the world market that no one can be bothered to write viruses for Macs. In 2008, Mac surpassed Amiga and Otari users on the world market. PCs are over 90%. Also, as soon as anything becomes popular enough, virus writers will hit it. This has already happened with the browser FireFox gaining against Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
I've also never heard of applications "being destroyed" on a PC, other than hard drive failures or other random problems that, in spite of all the propaganda, Macs are just as vulnerable to. I've had just as many crashing problems and other unexplainable wierdnesses occur on Macs as I have on PCs.
Mac users have a tunnel-visioned and distorted view of the web because of Apple's archaic restrictions against media file sharing. Quicktime's play-only format won't allow legally free downloads. Stuff It Expander supposedly gets around this but doesn't address Apple's proprietary file type schemes, which are another built-in impediment that further hedge it's users.
It's also no surprise public school boards are forcing everyone onto Macs. Besides the vast corruption and criminal misuse of taxpayer funds, these outfits are run by radical ideologues who are more interested in indoctrination than education. Apple is perfect for an extremist mindset that encourages control, censorship and a one-side view.
China now welcoming Apple in its country is really a condemnation of both, considering the totalitarian Butchers of Tiananmen Square want a totally restrictive OS to continue controlling its population.
Not all Mac users are bad people, but many share a collective fanaticism and tacitly approve the underhanded tactics of power-hungry Apple operatives, who seem determined to control all computer users and eliminate other platforms. Windows and Linux users I've known would never do that to Mac users if the situation were reversed. A large backlash of hatred for Apple is forming, and many innocent Mac users will find themselves suffering the same discrimination they've used against PC users.