Apples, PCs, and a Girl in between

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Truth to tell, one of the ongoing discussions that gives me the laughs is the Apples vs PCs’war’.:)

Now, that in itself has a bit of a history, and like a few of my other stories here, there was a girl in it! I was an active participant of the online forums in NTU 16 years ago, and in my final year, there was a bit of a online fight between a Mac-fan and myself.

Here’s the thing; I’m neither a Mac or a Windows fan. My first computer in 1984 was an Apple, and I wrote my first game in BASIC 3 months later. For me, it’s always about the most appropriate tool for the job. And appropriate for me isn’t merely about functionality and looks, but encompasses a host of other factors including affordability, accessibility, support (especially), amount of published and user-generated literature in it, and quality of content.

In any case, there was this fellow who was in a different faculty heaping scorn on PC users. So I took up on him, and before long things got a little too hot. And only got worse when he got his girlfriend who was in the same faculty into the thread too. So there I was facing off this (very) rude fellow and his girlfriend in a Apple vs PC debate.

How did it end? Well, a certain Associate Professor who knew me in person—at that juncture in 1994 I was a semi-well-known debater—stepped in and broke up the fight, saying, as I recall it, it was regrettable that persons such as myself were arguing over something like this.

Now after things cooled off, one thing led to another, and the girl in this story and I became friends. No it didn’t get anywhere—how was it to—and it was a pretty sad story on how it ended: my heart got broken, and I wrote my most cherished song in memory of our friendship. And here’s the funniest part: whenever I see another Apples vs PC/Windows debate, this is the story I remember.:)

Anyway, just to make sure this entry’s still somewhat On Topic, Microsoft is coming up with its own stylistically clever advertisments to fend off years of Apple bashing on Windows. It’s cute, sort of.:)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oshj4zEZlaU