This is getting to be funny. On my little chat box (the thing on the right side of my home page), a Mac user called “Bishop” offered the following suggestion:
Andrew, to see a REAL piece of REAL JOURNALISIM, please follow this address: http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20041209.html
“Here,” he says, “you will find an article written in a fair and balanced perspective…”
He’s pointing to a column in today’s (12/9) Wall Street Journal, in which Walter Mossberg essentially bashes Microsoft for being behind the curve in anti-virus and anti-other stuff technology, while singing the praises of the Mac: “The company’s new iMac G5 model is the single best desktop computer I have ever reviewed.”
(Mossberg does toss a bone to Microsoft: “To be fair, Microsoft has made some contributions to ease of use in the past couple of years.”)
This is a Mac-user’s idea of “real journalism.” Why? Because it’s pro-Mac. Simple as that. Anti-Mac = bad journalism, Anti-Microsoft = good journalism.
Amazing stuff.
This comes on the heels of other Mac-user logic, namely that the iPod has a huge market share because it’s obviously best in class, but Windows has huge market share for, um, other reasons.
You can’t make this stuff up.
1. The Mac is a great machine. I never said otherwise. It’s beautiful and stable and pretty much virus-immune. But it’s not the machine for me or, it seems, for a lot of other people. (But I don’t spend every column singing its praises, which makes me a Bad Person.)
2. The iPod is also a great product — no doubt about it. There are also other great products that do similar things. I never said otherwise. (But because I’m surprised by its huge market share, I’m a Bad Person.)
I just finished “The Cult of Mac.” It makes a lot of sense.
