PRESS RELEASE: TUAW writer bucks trend, sticks with Mac OS X

Wow, Bryan was absolutely right. Eerie.

Hmmm, there I am thinking TUAW is a great international weblog.....then I find out that one of the writers lives in the small sleepy Kentish town as i do!!!!!! Way hey! And we have no Apple store!

Ok, this post is the straw that broke the camels back. You're no longer a daily-read site, TUAW.

What happened? Nobody cares about new Apple Stores in the middle of nowhere. The quantity and quality of posts has decreased. Get over yourself, and go back to providing insightful, topical news on the toys we all love.

"Since when did a person's computing platform of choice become a matter that must be announced to the public?"

Yeah, say this and then announce you will keep using Mac OS...

From what I am gathering, most of these people who are "leaving" are developers of Mac Apps. While this concerns me, I also think that nobody I have ever purchased from is on this list. So that tells me that the "free market" works; supply and demand in its simplist form.

Good luck in the Linux/OSS world. I am not being snide; you may need to wonder if you app/opinion is relevent.

I guess I came off a bit pompous, but my point was that file formats, protocols and whatnot should be open and standardized. I think it's an educational problem because this isn't obvious to the average computer user.
You might like Flash, MS Office, Skype, or some other proprietary product, but only as long as the company behind them make a client for your computer platform of choice.

Ubuntu doesn't really shine on the PowerPC since a) ATI and Nvidia only provide drivers for x86, b) there is no Flash Player for PPC, and c) Airport Extreme uses a Broadcom chipset that requires a bit of tinkering to get running.

Kinda a pathetic statement, considering that if a major Windows developer announced they were switching to the Mac, we'd get to read all about it here pretty quickly.

"Amusing post, although the fact that this site exists pretty much for the sole purpose of evangelising the Mac platform makes your parody pretty hollow. The hypocrisy would be sad were it not so funny..."

Care to point out where the hypocrisy is in this situation? He likes the Mac. He's staying with the Mac. That's it.

What mature responses of people bashing Linux & Windows at the exact same time. These people switched, its annoying to keep seeing stories abou it, but don't hate on them for their choice. There are things you can do in windows that you can't do on any other OS, there are things you can do in linux that you can't do on any other OS, there are things you can do on OS X that you can't do on any other OS, and there are things you can do in UNIX that you can't do on any other OS. They all have their place, their own intricacies, pros and cons. And its dependent on the person which one is the best choice.

This is a religious war which used to just be between Linux & Windows users, but now that Macs are becoming more popular they're entering the fray. So please stop letting this degenerate into OS bashing. Its sad.

"Sure, try loading Ubuntu or Xandros or anyother linux on your wireless laptop.

When your wireless card no longer works because of spotty to non existent driver support, you won't even have to worry about the internets any more, let alone corrupted iTunes data."

Funny... I'm running 6.06LTS on a Dell with built in wireless to post this comment. And it worked on first boot. Linux bashers need to learn a new tune.

Amusing post, although the fact that this site exists pretty much for the sole purpose of evangelising the Mac platform makes your parody pretty hollow. The hypocrisy would be sad were it not so funny...