Evangelizing the Mac

Yes; yes I do that. And you’ve had a problem with it since you switched, right? Got frustrated, because you were trying to export your Pages document as PDF because you read that it did that, and you couldn’t find it, right? (Under the “Share” command in the menu bar; makes sense, but didn’t look there, right?)

Hey, I’ve been frustrated too. Look: it’s still a computer. It’s still prone to failure. They’re complex machines that do very complex tasks, and – unfortunately, perhaps – they’re still made by humans, whom err. Guys, girls… c’mon.

Yes, I sometimes evangelize them. And you know what, my Mac has crashed before on me, too once or twice (in like 5 years). And occasionally a program goes south. And I still will continue to sell them to friends and family. Because, let’s be honest: your old Windows box crashed multiple times a day. It crashed on a regular-enough basis that you knew when it was about to take down everything, on schedule. “Southbound crash with return-service to Blue-Screen-of-Death leaving @ 6:15; shuttle 2.”

So when you get frustrated because you couldn’t find “print” under “File” where it is all the time in every program, or when you forgot how to get to the system preferences, or maybe – GASP! – it crashed that one time on you when you were trying to open iTunes and copy that CD while you were importing pictures into iPhoto and looking up my cool-as-hell website, please stop to consider the alternative before you call/IM/email me and bitch, alright?

You could be on the 6:15 shuttle to Crash-ville.

Now get back to your illegal music files & porn, alright?