“Well, for me it is a big deal,” Foley reports. “I’m a PC. I am not an early adopter or someone who rushes out to buy the latest/greatest gadget.”
MacDailyNews Take: Luddite soccer mom. Oops, sorry, she’s praising Apple for a change (funny, once she buys an Apple product and uses it, even she gets it, too).
Foley continues, “This is the first Apple product I’ve ever owned. I never saw the need for an iPod (I bought a Sony Walkman MP3 player, and later a Zune HD). I never lusted after an iPhone (especially because I use my phone to make phone calls). And I never wanted or needed an iMac or a MacBook, as I had so many PCs from which to choose.”
MacDailyNews Take: Listen any time is too early for this. We’re going to vomit if we read further. Read the full article if you want.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: People who claim to “choose” Microsoft products, but who’ve never used an Apple product, have absolutely no credibility. Until now, Foley’s lived a life denying herself the best because it had an Apple logo on it and/or because she’s cheap or at least unable to calculate simple things like Total Cost of Ownership. For years, she’s been just plain ignorant. She gets no praise from us for finally waking up and doing what she should have been doing before attempting to write anything that even remotely mentionied Apple for all of these years.
We purposely torture ourselves with the latest Windows OS, so that we can confidently describe it as the crap that it is. We’ve actually tried to use Microsoft Zunes and more than one Windows phone. Yawn and yuck, respectively. For years, Foley has maligning Apple products as “expensive” and much worse without ever even trying them. She’s been describing Apple product users as snobs and much worse, without ever trying the products so she could understand why discerning people would choose a MacBook Pro over whatever POS Dell that Costco has in the bargain bin today. She just doesn’t get it and it’s totally her own fault.
In the full article today, she admits, “If I had felt there was a compelling Windows slate that would ship this year, I’d have refrained happily from buying an iPad.” So, whatever she writes today is notable only for her finally using an Apple product, not for her opinion, pro or con, because it’s utterly uninformed and therefore biased and of no use to anyone.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “GetMeOnTop!” for the heads up.]
The Microsoft Myth of Choice™ – Buy any hardware you want… just be shackled to our insecure sub par knock-off operating system.
Hell freezes over again.
I never lusted after an iPhone (especially because I use my phone to make phone calls)
Har Har… Mary Jo makes a funny.
My god, I just read her blog post.
STFU you stupid __tch!
Good take MDN. She wrote and bashed Apple for many years. Now she admits that she hasn’t even tried using them. What a stupid moron for writing about Apple and how their products impact productivity. How can you write about something that you don’t even have first hand use? Hilariously stupid!!!!
No Mary, it’s not a big deal. Nobody cares about you any more.
Why do you say soccer mom? Nobody plays soccer in the US?
Why don’t you say American Football Mom??
One Guy From Finland,
Stick to Finland, you know nothing about the U.S.
“Association football, or soccer, has long been a mainstream sport in the United States. It is the most popular recreational sport for both boys and girls and has been so for more than 30 years.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_in_the_United_States
What’s funny is all the comments. Nobody sees the idiocy of being a Windows advocate for all these years yet refusing to touch an Apple device. She’s not very credible, and certainly not someone to take seriously.
Yet another idiot. There’s no shortage.
Let me translate this for you all…
“I’ve been whoring for Microsoft for so many years that my name is strongly associated with loving MS and discounting Apple, but as Apple moves into the number one position in technology and MS continues to take more of a back seat, I’d like to continue working. So I’ve chosen the iPad as the most graceful attempt at bridging the gap of ignorance I’ve perpetuated for decades. Now that I have done so, I can start writing about the company that will actually matter for the next couple of decades.”
Comments on her blog I mean.
I think it’s the dawn for Marry Jo to enlightenment. Which is good, because it’s going to be harder to find a decent PC this decade. iPad is a good start, Mom.
But Zune Tang still listens to his Europa and Jefferson Airplane on his Dell Ditty…….all encrypted with the PlaysForSure encryption…..
He vomits when he come within 20 feet of an Apple Product…..
“Until now, Foley’s lived a life denying herself the best because it had an Apple logo on it and/or because she’s cheap or at least unable to calculate simple things like Total Cost of Ownership.”
I think she lived the life of a Woman trapped in the body of a Man, but don’t let that get in the way of a good rant.
You go girl,
“Association football, or soccer, has long been a mainstream sport in the United States. It is the most popular recreational sport for both boys and girls and has been so for more than 30 years.”
Really? And you still haven’t learned to call it what it is? ie Football
Wow o_o
Mary buys an iPad- blogs about it, still takes shots at Apple and then wants “her” Microsoft shit to be ported to the iPad. It’s like going on a vacation to an exotic place, staying in a first class hotel and then eating at MacDonalds.
These PC people can’t just admit they go it wrong from the beginning. I myself WAS a PC, I fully switched when Jaguar came out- I admit I was wrong and I’m not going back.
She’s an idiot. Her readers are idiots too, given some of the comments. I mean really, her column is useless – why read it?
Chrissy’s translation just about covers it.
@ChrissyOne
Well take! You’ve nailed it 😀
Bravo, Chrissy!
I was thinking along the same lines as Chrissy, but not with so many of them big words.
@deepdish:
I’m sorry you couldn’t have meant Witch! that would imply magic and there is definitely no magic at Microsoft
Mary Jo doesn’t have permission to think for herself. I’m wondering what’s behind this.
Quote: (I’m still torn as to whether I like reading better on the Kindle or using the Kindle app on the iPad)
Isn’t there a different option? Did Apple cancel iBooks?
Sheesh.
Quote: (I’m still torn as to whether I like reading better on the Kindle or using the Kindle app on the iPad)
Isn’t there a different option? Did Apple cancel iBooks?
Sheesh.