Before I start out on this little adventure, it should be made public that I despise Apple and all things fruit. This profound hatred developed during my high school years. Back in those days I owned a Performa 6200, and let me assure you, this thing was the top of the line! But for some strange reason I just wasn’t happy.
I would always get frustrated when reading Magazines like Game Informer. Seeing all these crazy ads every other page for the latest and greatest video games and couldn’t play them. Why couldn’t I play them? Well, short answer: they all said “PC only.” To add insult to injury, the graphics card in my Apple Performa sucked! So my solution was to simply get a PC. And I haven’t looked back since.
During my college years, I’d find myself arguing with the other geeks as to why Microsoft didn’t suck. It soon turned into some sort of obsession. Seeking out the Linux and Apple fans in the room and picking fights. I couldn’t explain and I still can’t! And even in 2010, I will still hunt down and provoke the “not cool” crowd in the room.
With the introduction of the iPhone, things only got worse. I wasn’t fighting with know it all nerds any more (does that mean I’d be fighting myself?) Now I was fighting with every Tom, Dick and Harry in the street. As it turned out, the average village idiot now owned an iPhone, and they all defended this thing as furiously as I attacked it! I found myself poking fun at people who had no idea they were being made fun of. Hearing things like, “Oh, it can’t do that? Oh well, it does what I want it to do!” was the norm. I constantly found myself beating a dead horse.
