[IP] Mainstream writers are biased Mac-users (so is your Editor :) djf)

[David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: John Adams <jadams01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 21, 2005 12:32:46 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: For IP? Mainstream writers are biased Mac-users
Reply-To: John Adams <jadams01@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Via my brilliant and talented wife, the crack editor in the family  
(write for rates if you happen to need a book designed):


> From http://www.macnn.com/:
>
>
> > > Microsoft is getting the short end of the stick as far as media
> coverage, because today's newspaper and magazine tech writers know
> little about computers and are all Mac users, according to John C.
> Dvorak of PC Magazine. The top columnists in the news and business
> magazines fit this model as well, while tech writers and tech
> columnists for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek,
> and Fortune are all Mac users, according to Dvorak. "This reality is
> not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology
> coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply
> cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer." Dvorak says that probably
> the best thing Microsoft could have ever done was copy as much of the
> Mac OS look-and-feel as it could, and says that "Microsoft should
> make some headway with this biased crowd once the fanciful Xbox 360
> arrives. It's got a creative GUI, is easy to use and navigate, and
> kind of has a Mac look to it. It also interfaces perfectly with the
> iPod."<<

That may be the harshest criticism I've heard of Windows in quite a  
while.


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