| Topic: Apple.
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I'm talking, of course, about sacrificing your deep commitment to Apple's Macs and turning toward Windows computers.
I was enthralled, you see, by the experience of a diehard Apple user who was suddenly enticed to the forbidden lands.
Mark Frauenfelder has been using Mac computers for a long time.
He started with Windows PCs, but that happened to a lot of people in olden times.
His abandonment of Windows in favor of a Mac in 2002 was so absolute that he appeared in an Apple ad.
In it, he described the "clunky world" of Windows.
"It's like being stuck in a bad relationship," he said in the ad.
He explained in Boing Boing how thoroughly embedded he became in Apple's superior sense of design and basic humanity.
Surely such a committed Mac user couldn't stoop to such a déclassé life.
Ignore something for 18 years and perhaps it does finally manage to get better.
And not in the negative ways it's surprised those who have used Windows for many years?
He solved this, however, by using a wireless mouse.
And then there was his preference for Mac's Finder over Windows' File Explorer.
"Because I suspect that I need to get used to Windows," he said.
On behalf of Apple fanpersons, you understand.
Yet Microsoft has clearly watched Apple's success, wondered about all this human-friendly stuff that Cupertino has peddled since its inception, and decided there must be something to it.
Hark at Freuenfelder's tortured conclusion: "I think I'm going to keep using Windows from now on." The italics are his, as is his angst.
"I do feel weird about it," he said of his struggle.
"It feels like switching political parties?
I've been a loyal Mac user for almost 20 years.".
One of the great differences -- so little understood for so long -- between Mac and Windows users was the contrast between emotional involvement and mere utilitarian necessity.
Apple enchanted you with humor, empathy, and sheer humane simplicity.
The gap has unquestionably closed, yet I couldn't help but chuckle at Frauenfelder's beautifully rational attempt to persuade himself that it's time to leave his true love behind.
He said: "Windows has evolved into an excellent operating system.
This, and the fact that Windows computers are much less expensive than Apple computers, is enough to put me in the Windows camp.".
My wife has been a Windows user for all her days and has few complaints about Windows 10, except for the painfully heavy Dell laptop she's forced to use.
I, like Frauenfelder, have been using Macs for a long, long time.
Would price and a more human Windows persuade me to switch.
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