How I Became An Apple User

This is in response to Dan Rua’s Post on Coming Full Circle to Apple. I was originally writing this in the comments, but realized the comment was really better suited to be a blog post.

It’s funny, I grew up on Windows and PCs. My dad got me into DOS and Excel at like 5. I grew up with Bill Gates as my idol and told my teachers in grammar school that Macs were for kids and Windows is what dominates the world. I stopped handwriting any and all assignments in the 4th Grade because of MS Word. I thought Windows, MS, and PCs were unstoppable. Well, that changed. I bought the first iPod ever back in 2001. I was a digital music and MP3 aficionado. I had the Diamond RIO 16 mb player back in 97. Problem was, the first iPod was Mac only. So what did I do? I bought a mac. It was an iBook g3 probably. I barely used the thing. I couldn’t get away from Windows. 3 Years later though, I finally snapped. I couldn’t deal with the Windows experience. My 6 month old toshiba was virus ridden, heavy, breaking, and horrible. Maybe this was coincidence, but about a month before I formed my first Startup, I switched fully to a Powerbook.  Windows was out of my life.  Since then everything I’ve done is influenced by Apple. Publictivity runs on apple machines.  Publictivity was completely coded and designed on an apple.  Even the UI quirks are very apple like.  In short, I am Apple.  I’ll be even more Apple when my sprint contract ends and I grab an iphone.  I do joke about the lack of copy+paste functionality :-P.
To respond to Dan’s post a little bit more though: Yes, the ease of use of Apple, its power for pro apps (coding, design,etc.), with web based apps is the ultimate configuration.  Go for the Mac.  Use Keynote to make a presentation instead of Powerpoint, and youll be sold at the quality of what youre using.

PS- blog overhaul and full alpha materials are coming this week. I promise.
[tags]  apple, microsoft, switching, publictivity, web 2.0 [/tags]