Hello From Seattle!

Doug has posted a very unexpected missive around his relationship with Apple products.

Maybe I'm delusional, but I could swear the reason I bonded with the Mac in 1985 was that it was better, not that it was counter-culture (I didn't see the Ridley Scott ad until years after I owned a Mac).

I left the Mac world in 1992 when it was obvious that Mac OS was languishing (damn near corroding)  and that Windows NT might be an exciting (and more reliable) place to be. Again, NT felt better.

Last Christmas when I bought MP3 devices for my wife and kids, I bought Zunes, primarily because circa 2006 iTunes wouldn’t scale to our 14K song library - it choked pretty bad.

This year, I’m doing the analysis again. iTunes is sooo much better a year later – if the new Zune client software hasn’t leapfrogged it, I can see an iPod classic in my future. Again, my money is going to the better product.

Finally, I recently bought a 20” aluminum iMac as my family PC. Why? Easy – great form factor plus it’s one of the best Windows machines I’ve ever owned.  The bootcamp driver experience is damn near flawless - far better than the experience I had at work with my desktop that came from a top PC vendor. 

And finally, I'm still carrying a Samsung blackjack, not an iPhone. Why? Because it's better at integrating with my email and calendar.