Charlie Brooker’s thesis is “I hate Windows, but I hate strawmen Mac evangelists more, so I’m going to marinate in my misery just to stick it to these imaginary fanboys. I’m unhappy and unproductive, and I’m going to stay unhappy and unproductive—that’ll show ‘em.”
Finishing the sentence “I’ll never buy a Mac because” with anything but “it doesn’t meet my needs” means you don’t get to accuse Apple users of making irrational purchasing decisions based on slavish adherence to an ideology.
Amen to that. I’ve pretty much given up reading anything about the Mac from most major online news sources these days because I invariably wind up reading the comments from a large number of people screaming bloody fury at any Mac users they can find. It used to be mildly amusing (the insecurities-on-view psychological side of it, at least), but now it’s just tiring. Especially when someone starts using “MAC” instead of “Mac” or even “Apple”: yeah, you obviously know what you’re talking about, mate.
