[Jason Dunn]

Wow. That's quite a response Janak! I don't have the time to do a point by point rebuttal, so I'll just say a couple of brief things:

1) You said several times "That's YOUR opinion" - well of course it is. I don't pretend to speak for anyone else other than me. I acknowledge that some of my points were simply triggered by his points, so they were mostly about what I thought about my Mac experience and less about his.

2) I appreciate the correction on the things that I was clearly wrong about. I wrote that I may have been wrong about some of them, but I really didn't have time to test his every assertion.

3) In retrospect, I agree that this piece wasn't 50/50 legitimate...it was probably more like 90 crap/10 legit.

[QUOTE=Janak Parekh;730830]Are people really that clueless? Especially an investigative journalist who does writing for a full-time living? I don't buy it.

Well, here's the thing: I looked at his other articles, and basically none of them are about tech. So he's a journalist, yes, but he's not a tech journalist. I really do think he's that clueless - the words he uses ("booted up my bank account") are the kind of things you hear from people who really don't know what they're doing. So, yeah, I believe that he believes what he's saying makes sense.

You can dismiss him entirely, or you can admit that there are some things Apple can do - with their software, with their hardware, with their in-store experience - to make switching easier...even for the truly clueless people like this guy who don't like learning new computing platforms.

[Jason Dunn]

Wow. That's quite a response Janak! I don't have the time to do a point by point rebuttal, so I'll just say a couple of brief things:

1) You said several times "That's YOUR opinion" - well of course it is. I don't pretend to speak for anyone else other than me. I acknowledge that some of my points were simply triggered by his points, so they were mostly about what I thought about my Mac experience and less about his.

2) I appreciate the correction on the things that I was clearly wrong about. I wrote that I may have been wrong about some of them, but I really didn't have time to test his every assertion.

3) In retrospect, I agree that this piece wasn't 50/50 legitimate...it was probably more like 90 crap/10 legit.

[QUOTE=Janak Parekh;730830]Are people really that clueless? Especially an investigative journalist who does writing for a full-time living? I don't buy it.

Well, here's the thing: I looked at his other articles, and basically none of them are about tech. So he's a journalist, yes, but he's not a tech journalist. I really do think he's that clueless - the words he uses ("booted up my bank account") are the kind of things you hear from people who really don't know what they're doing. So, yeah, I believe that he believes what he's saying makes sense.

You can dismiss him entirely, or you can admit that there are some things Apple can do - with their software, with their hardware, with their in-store experience - to make switching easier...even for the truly clueless people like this guy who don't like learning new computing platforms.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

Wow. That's quite a response Janak! I don't have the time to do a point by point rebuttal, so I'll just say a couple of brief things:

Ugh, sorry. I got entirely too worked up about it, and wish I had a blush emoticon right now.

You can dismiss him entirely, or you can admit that there are some things Apple can do - with their software, with their hardware, with their in-store experience - to make switching easier...even for the truly clueless people like this guy who don't like learning new computing platforms.

Why can't I do both?

On a more serious note, I feel like articles like his weaken the case for "the troubles with switching." People are (somewhat rightfully) dismissive and overlook the fact that OS X does have some difficult aspects to it because his article makes invalid points. I guess I would not be so dismissive of him if he was a casual person conversing to me as opposed to a writer putting a pen to paper. Perhaps I expect too much of journalists nowadays (not meaning you, of course).

--janak

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

I guess I would not be so dismissive of him if he was a casual person conversing to me as opposed to a writer putting a pen to paper. Perhaps I expect too much of journalists nowadays (not meaning you, of course).

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'd guess though that when he submitted this to the editors at the Huffington Post, they clapped their hands together with GLEE and cackled "PRECIOUSSS PAGEVIEWS....PREEEEEEEECIOUS!!!" They knew this was link-bait and would blaze like a supernova across the Apple-focused sites.

But, FWIW, I really do think he was 100% serious. I deal with people this clueless fairly often.

[Tim Williamson]

His piece was a satire: http://www.joshuakors.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua..._b_797091.html

He has some valid points though.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Tim Williamson

His piece was a satire:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua..._b_797091.html

He has some valid points though.

Heh heh. Interesting stuff! I didn't think it was a satire - I've heard/seen people say things just as crazy/ignorant - but I guess that explains how it got published. The Huffington Post got what they wanted though...lots and lots of page views!