ralphsears's Profile

I work in broadcasting at the production level, and back in the early 90's a co-worker and I were discussing the fact that, at that time, there were so many more computer based production tools for the Mac than for wintel. It was an amiable discussion, but at the very end he said,"...the bottom line is, I don't have to use a Mac." As this little sentiment has stuck with me over the years I have adopted it as one of my own, and the net result is that, I don't use wintel products because I don't have to. Its plain, its simple, and I believe for me, its honest. Of course the part of this sentiment that is flawed for a Macintosh user is, "...because I don't have to", the reality is that most employers don't and won't give you a choice, and therein lies the only real dig, as far as I'm concerned. When my technical, philosophical, and personal choices are dogmatically taken away from me, I tend to get a bit edgy. And here's the proverbial straw on the camel's back: Because I want, and yes, even demand a product/platform choice, I'm somehow being arrogant? Self-deluded? Closed minded? Please. As a final thought, when it comes to personal computing, I see the world as a pretty surreal place - two choices, I mean two actual/real choices. (As opposed to Dell vs. Gateway vs. HP vs. etc.) For desktop computing the whole planet lives in self delusion. I believe, without a doubt, that if we had more product choices, operating systems, hardware and os's, the world would already be a much better place than it is with regard to personal computing. At this moment in technical history we are nothing but pawns in a very biased and unbalanced economic and philosophical battle between two companies. submitted to applematters.com on May 13, 2005.