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Originally Posted by psicodude
I think that some of it can be blamed on flame wars from the past and the need to say "I told you so".
For years, Microsoft has had the stereotype of the huge, faceless, money grubbing monopoly that killed creativity for fun. The mac guys would always throw this in the face of the PC lover. Now that Apple is growing and making some questionable decisions, the PC dudes are all over it. Both sides are as guilty as the other though.
It would actually be really interesting to go back 5 or 10 years and compare the debates to today.
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Apple themselves have always made their marketing about "Apple vs. PC", even back in their darker days. It's natural that people would organize along those lines. This is their doing when the choice really should and could be "why not both?" (like FanIn80 is doing). The one or the other zero sum game feeds this too.
Why not have a cool utility truck and also a slick little miata? :P Some tough guys would never be caught in public driving the miata but it's a fun awesome car.