Vincent Ferrari
02-26-2009, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://theappleblog.com/2009/02/25/paul-thurrott-safari-is-from-apple-therefore-i-hate-it/' target='_blank'>http://theappleblog.com/2009/02/25/...fore-i-hate-it/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"I was wondering how Thurrott was going to counter the incredible speed of the browser engine. Apple's own marketing aside, others have tested it and confirmed it to be the fastest web browser available. I assumed he'd blast the test methodology, or claim that IE 8 would be better (though IE 8 was in the tests), etc. But no, he took a different tack altogether. He simply acknowledged the browser engine is good, and then blasted the UI because he's apparently a manly man who doesn't need no steenking graphics."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1235650879.usr18053.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>Reading through Thurrott's hyper-screed against Safari 4 is like seeking sanity inside an insane asylum. Thurrott is one of those people who, if you read him long enough, you start to realize is one of the dumbest and most hypocritical "journalists" out there. He writes the most vicious anti-Apple garbage you'll ever find on the web and then counters it with "I don't know why the Apple people hate me so much. I have like two Macs and an iPhone!" as if that's supposed to eradicate all his shoddy journalism, logical fallacies, and overall idiocy.</p><p>Tom Reestman at The Apple Blog gives him a major butt-whipping across the universe for his rant against Safari. In fact, Reestman so embarasses Thurrott that I fully expect Thurrott to turn on the whinging switch and start crying because some Apple guy attacked him.</p><p>It's amazing what passes for journalism these days, and all I can say is I've been accused numerous times of being a "fanboy," the favorite nasty name given to Mac fans by the intellectually devoid. As far as I'm concerned, Thurrott is one hundred times worse than any of the mythical "Mac fanboys" that supposedly pounce on him for his stupidity and had any Mac writer written this load about Internet Explorer or any of the other garbage Thurrott likes so much (he also liked Windows ME at the time; no I'm not kidding) they would immediately be dismissed as fanboys. <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2009/02/25/paul-thurrott-safari-is-from-apple-therefore-i-hate-it/" target="_blank">Go read the article now</a>. It won't take you long to realize how many logical leaps he had to make to get to his conclusions.</p>