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October 17, 2006
super collider
the question
from an e-mail thread at ITP:
"alright, macolytes and other apple users... i'm in a bit of a conundrum and i need some insight from those of you with the glowing fruit.
see, i will most likely be going into a media production education field straight out of ITP... which led me to feel that i need a mac, since the school where i would be teaching does all of their work on iMacs, and it makes sense for me to be on the same platform.
however, when i read things steve jobs says, or i see the continuation of those ridiculous "i'm a mac and i'm a pc" commercials, i want to throw my iPod into a super collider.
so tell me, for the sake of my career, how do you deal with buying into an incredibly self-satisfied culture without throwing up everytime you turn on your laptop?
i'm serious. this is not an attack on apple users, but a genuine question as to how you do it. i feel like supporting an industry which is built on a brand identity best defined as "a smug little shit" has to be hard to do, even if it is to your benefit for a particular purpose."
- a student
49 replies in less than 7 hrs.
I decided to reply myself:
Posted by andrew schneider at October 17, 2006 09:29 PM