The Apple product addiction never started for me, because I when I joined my secondary school in 1993 (full of shiny Mac Classics), they tried to impress on us all just how good they were compared to Windows machines.
Unfortunately, I had just come straight from a primary school that had Acorn 5000 machines, running RiscOS. The Macs were just not as good. Finally, I've found most of Apple's reasons unconvincing (having quite happily used 3 mouse buttons some years previously, I found their reasons for a 1 buttoned mouse seriously backwards), and I spent my uni far too skint to afford anything other than a small upgrade for my crappy PC every few years.
I think I'm currently in the throes of three of these; weirdly, my longterm stable dependence on real ale isn't reflected in the alcohol line.
I *adore* Steve Jobs' keynotes; but last week's was the first for five years that we've been able to watch live. Normally we have to rely on liveblogging, and catch up on the actual keynote later.
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Unfortunately, I had just come straight from a primary school that had Acorn 5000 machines, running RiscOS. The Macs were just not as good. Finally, I've found most of Apple's reasons unconvincing (having quite happily used 3 mouse buttons some years previously, I found their reasons for a 1 buttoned mouse seriously backwards), and I spent my uni far too skint to afford anything other than a small upgrade for my crappy PC every few years.
Hence why I've never been addicted to Apple.
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I *adore* Steve Jobs' keynotes; but last week's was the first for five years that we've been able to watch live. Normally we have to rely on liveblogging, and catch up on the actual keynote later.