Fascinating insight into the mind of a Windows user
The following conversation took place a couple of days ago in my apartment. Matt's my flatmate, Doug's one of Matt's friends. I was in the room at the time.
- Matt: So, Doug, do you think you could go the way of Mac?
- Doug: I already have, really, but I'd never buy one.
- Matt: Why's that?
- Doug: Well — no offense, David — if I were to buy one I'd be getting something a retard could use, and I'm not a retard.
I found this exchange both entertaining and enlightening. Never had I considered the possibility that certain individuals use Windows because it's poorly designed and difficult to use!
There's certainly some sound reasoning behind Doug's stance: Doug is proficient in Windows; gaining proficiency in Windows requires a certain level of intelligence; Doug's proficiency in Windows is therefore indicative of his intelligence.
Why, then, does Doug say that he's switched camps? He's using one of these at school:
- 27-inch iMac
Talk about having one's cake and eating it, too.
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Comments
That is the argument James commonly uses.
Colette used to say (when we were young and the only people at our school with macs at home) that we were the smart ones, as everyone is accustom to using pcs and only intelligent people can easily switch between the two.
I am honestly so over helping out my friends who have bought macbooks to be cool and have no idea how to use them, and they are just using it for internet/ word. Fuck, what a waste of money.
Those people will never be as cool as us early adapters, plus no one looks good asking for help.
"early adapters" are clearly the smartest people around.
Shit yeah, they use terms you don't even comprehend yet.
I think what he's saying is that because OS X is such a user friendly operating system, it locks out a lot of features and settings to the user that Windows makes available. If you're used to having these extras and you switch only to find that you don't have those things anymore, it's a bit of a letdown.
That's certainly another plausible interpretation, Ben.