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Not So Special Anymore...

When I bought a Mac I was already late to the game. My first machine, a PowerBook G4, had Panther installed. I had always wanted a Mac as it was a little different from the PC's I was used to using; I remember wandering around PC World and seeing one, lone yet brightly coloured Mac sitting at the end of an aisle. I remember reading instruction booklets of how to set things up and install them on my PC and there being a separate set of instructions for Mac users and I remember thinking "Why are they so different? 15 pages for me and 3 for them?". I also remember reading that things don't work on Macs and they are a waste of money, purely because you can't play your favourite games and run the best software.

Since the iPod took off some years ago, suddenly it's been cool to own a Mac. The year above me doing my course at University all own Macs, bar one or two. Where there used to be a lone Mac in an aisle of crap computers in PC World, there are now 3 aisles dedicated to the MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, MacMini and Mac Pro. The MP3 player aisle is full of iPods in all their colourful glory; the shuffle and its flavours, the same with the nano and of course the iPod. It's so commonplace to own an iPod that you expect other people to own one. When Chris Moyles (from BBC Radio 1) refers to MP3 devices, he says "iPo... generic iPod mp3 players". It's so common that the majority of people on campus at University or around town will generally have the tell-tale white headphones attached to a clip-on shuffle or pocketed iPod (either they are playing with the click-wheel, or enjoying themselves in some bizarre way).

Wandering past an Apple Store in itself is odd to me, as a couple of years ago they were basically non-existent, but to see crowds of people hovering around and almost drooling over the products it seems... almost wrong. I think it comes down to wanting to be different. I liked sitting in a lecture theatre with me and my roommate the only ones with Macs. Is it wrong to yearn for the days when less people owned an Apple product and for PC gamers to look down on me because I can't run Counter Strike? Is it wrong for me to want the days back where I preached that a Mac was a better, more reliable system that does everything you need easily and looks good while doing it?

Is it wrong to want the days when thinking Apple was thinking different?

June 20th @ 2:58 AM | 165 Comments | Tags: | Trackback

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