05-17-2011, 08:51 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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I hate Ed Bott for two reasons...
1. He's an unabashed Microsoft fanboy who won't admit he's an unabashed Microsoft fanboy. At least folks like Dilger and Gruber wear their biases on their sleeves.
2. He, like most tech pundits, thinks "what would I do with this? Oh, nothing? Then it's useless!" If I gave a Chromebook to my father, he would never need anything else. In some ways it's even more computer than he needs. Same goes for my in-laws. Same for my nephew. Hell, 9 times out of 10, same for me! Google is trying something new and I really wish people wouldn't take a dump on it before it's in people's hands.
Also, as to his track record of predictions, I just have to wonder: how many times can you be wrong before people say "wait, this guy has no idea what he's talking about," or, more appropriately for Bott, "Is this a bad product? Or is it a bad product because it wasn't churned out of a back office in Redmond?"
Bott, Dilger, Gruber, and Thurrott are all in that camp just on different sides and that's why I can't stand any of them.
And I have no problems with Michael Mace. Just sayin.
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