Al Jazeera International chooses Apple Technology

AME Info ^ | 11/20/2006

[ccmay]

There are plenty of Macs in Fox News and on the desks of conservative bloggers too. Technology is politically neutral.

-ccm

[Question_Assumptions]

Why should anyone cry? If Al Jazeera were using Windows machines, would the Windows fanboys be crying?

[Tribune7]

Glad no one on our side uses Apple tech < /sar>

[rlmorel]

OOhhh.

I bow down before a high priest of technoweenie!

[BlazingArizona]

Nothing gives a beheading video that special zig like Final Cut Pro.

[SmoothTalker]

Shows they have some sense about something there.

[SlowBoat407]

They also use the internet. Let's all dump that while we're at

[RoadTest]

"Focusing on bringing the truth to the masses"


BWWWWHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!

[Scutter]

I bow down before a high priest of technoweenie!

I love how defensive you Apple Fanboys get. Are you trying to compensate for something? It's just a computer -- says nothing about the size of your Johnson.

[Scutter]

Glad no one on our side uses Apple tech

Did you hear him give away a Macbook Pro to that kid last week? I thought that kid was going to freak. I love stuff like that.

[Tribune7]

I missed it but Rush rocks.

[rlmorel]

Well, why did you somehow feel the need to denigrate something or someone unless you feel threatened by it? Remember, you were the one who actually STARTED a derogatory thread without prompting from anyone else. It seems to me that you are the person who has an issue.

Are you that way by nature, or is there some other issue deeper that you "compensate" for, which I bring up since you are the one who is into psycho-babble (which is telling).

People often say things online they would not say to someone's face, but somehow I get the impression that poor manners are not a problem with you.

[af_vet_rr]

They also use the internet. Let's all dump that while we're at

I've heard rumors that they breath oxygen as well. Maybe we should stop doing both of those? Otherwise, people might mistake us for terrorists.

[Scutter]

Well, why did you somehow feel the need to denigrate something or someone unless you feel threatened by it?

I just posted a thread about Al Jazeera (with a little joke at the end). Please lighten up, as I really didn't mean to start a flame war. The comment was triggered by another thread here that I had just finished reading and that had a healthy share of Windows bashing. I think it's about as rational (irrational) as the Windows bashing comments I read here and elsewhere.

While we're on this topic, though. Why do so many Apple users feel the need to constantly bash Windows and Windows users? Why does Apple feel the need to create ads showcasing a trendy Mac guy and a nerdy, clueless Windows guy? Apple has now pulled these ads due to the negative backlash.

Did you know that the liberals that frequent techy sites like digg.com and slashdot.org also bash Microsoft? Do you know these people (I call them "open source communists") are almost always Democrats? Why do the metrosexuals all seem to be attracted to Macs (come on, you know you've seen them hanging around the Apple store)?

I think the Mac is a great platform, and now that I do the Windows software development that I do within a virtual machine, I'll probably be switching to a new Mac Pro as my primary platform (around March of next year when a native Photoshop comes out). However, Microsoft makes a lot of really good software too. The platform snobbery is a real turn-off, and it's a little too close to the sort of thing that liberals do when they argue with conservatives (resort to personal insults).