Well, you are the “maytag repairman” 😉 Your job and to a large extent life revolves around these machines, but for the average user, that is pretty much what a computer is now, an appliance.

The thing I find funny is that I come across people that are rabid about Macs, hardly ever have used a PC, and talk about it’s “better user interface”, and these people would have perhaps been 5, if that, when the Mac came out.

Back then, there was a world of difference between Mac and Dos … it wasn’t for a full 6 years that something comparable in the shape of windows 3.1 came out.

But these folks have never seen that… it’s sort of like saying Ford is the best because the model T was better than the competition 100 years ago.

I think it really is motivated by a fear of being a “nerd”. “Macs are hip, so if I use one I’m still cool.” And the backlash is probably the same antipathy that the geeks have always felt for the “in crowd” that shunned them.

Hardly any of it has anything to do with the actual machines or user experience.