The Digital Ghetto

I love my Apple computer products. My I-mac, MacBook and I-pod.

I started out with Mac in grade school, my father is an early adopter and he was one of the first home users of the Mac. I took one to college (my roommate had an electric typewriter). Its only recently that Apple products have gained close to their rightful place in technology users hands and homes. Thank goodness for the I-pod. I have a 1st generation i-pod, and based on my desire to have one I came back to the Mac.

Unfortunately, other than in the creative fields, corporate America runs on the PC. As a long time Apple fan, I cant understand why. Macs are so much easier, more elegant and more intuitive to use. But the PC and Microsoft dominance remains. I am fine with people having to deal with viruses, and programing issues, but what I am not fine with is the fact that doing things on the world wide web are either not available to me as an Appleite (I just made this word up) or are much harder for me to do.

Take blogging for example. I am having problems uploading photos, widgets, and the java applications are murder. Why? Because I use a Mac. I also can not take advantage of Netfliks view now option, unless I steal Sweetie's computer. Fortunately for you dear reader, blog spot has recently improved its Mac friendliness and I can now check my spelling using the built in spell checkers instead of copying pasting and doing all sorts of other gymnastics.

Maybe one day. Until then I am going to continue with my love affair with Mr. Jobs and his products.