I stumbled in to this article via an all but dead (un-named) PC newsletter that often links to articles written by others and then takes credit for the article when the publisher puts his picture at the top of the article on his newsletter. I only clicked on the link because I thought it would go to another biased article about how Microsoft is the best, blah, blah, blah.

Then I reluctantly started reading some of the comments below this somewhat incomplete article about the history of MS vs Apple in market share and stock value. Lind has done nice work in the info graphic department, and despite all these arm chair quarter backs whining about inaccurate stock price portrayals, I did find the the information interesting.

The article or the info graphic does not seem to be biased in one way or another, and I find it amusing that so many people that left comments are so riled up over an article that isn’t coming from any kind of a stock market industry website or from anyone who is publishing information from a genius think tank or a brain trust. We are reading from a website that publishes such thought provoking articles as “Childhood Celebrity Crushes: The Olsen Twins” and an article about how to do tricks with your video game console… this is not the Algonquin Round Table website, to say the very least… so let’s put this article in the correct context, okay?

This website’s own “About” page describes how the site was conceived during a “drunken conversation with my friends about the sorry state of the world these days. Respect, honor, dignity and style all seem to be long forgotten
.”… ironic since this website seems to otherwise be perpetuating the very “sorry state of the world” for which it was meant to be a remedy.

As for the long and silly argument about “Mac vs PC”, and all the PC zealots that blindly defend an over-bloated company who’s founder originally stole the GUI concept and code from its “friend”, Apple (I think that infamous theft by Mr. B(i)G was the original inspiration for the word, “Frenemy”), it seems that more people would realize that both MS and Apple have a place in this world and both have their pluses and minuses.

Mac, being the original desktop PC that dominated the creative world of design, photography and digital pre-press, did so by being the first to create a relationship with Adobe Postscript and artistic software like QuarkXpress and Adobe Photoshop and the now all but dead Pagemaker. After all, it was created by the Steves… Woz, the coding genius, and Jobs, the idea man and marketing genius… I often ask myself, “What would Steve do?”.

And Microsoft, being the company based on taking other code writer’s ideas, selling them to giants like IBM, then finally buying the code for a grossly under-valued amount, and then calling it their “idea”… Gates was and is truly one of the greatest businessmen the world has ever seen. And there is a mega-ton of free software out there for Windows, though much of it is being written for Macs now too.

Coming from someone who uses Macs and PCs in the creative industry and who used to scoff at the one PC that was occasionally necessary for the odd file that would come through the studio that just wouldn’t open on a Mac, I now use Macs and PCs side by side and enjoy the benefits of both. There are, after all, many mutant OS types out there… imagine the Linux community that believes that their OS is the only way to go. There are many microcosms out there that most PC and Mac users have no idea about.

I recall a friendly dinner with tech friends one time that turned in to a near “gone postal” event when one member of the dinner party just couldn’t convince me how much better PC was than Mac… if that guy had a gun that night, I’d be a dead man.

Apple continues to be the innovator that others only follow (just look at all the TV and print adds for iPhone and iPad knock-offs) and Microsoft continues to dominate with a fairly decent Windows 7, the most stable Microsoft OS that has ever come about, arguably, after XP… Vista was laughable.

Yes, there are allot of viruses and attack sites that Windows is vulnerable to, and Mac continues to be mostly invulnerable to those digital pitfalls mainly because these bits of vicious code aren’t written with Apple’s OS X in mind, and OS X is somewhat invulnerable to malware by nature. If you have a PC, you just need one good, paid for anti-virus app and a secondary anti-malware app, since Windows Firewall, Defender and Malicious Software Removal Tool are worthless.

And yes, MS continues to release apps and operating systems that have allot of holes in them, but they do have that fairly well covered with updates that come every other day, which is good, as long as one has their Windoze Update system is set-up to ask before installing updates, since some driver software updates can cause infinite problems that even the best MS techs in India can’t resolve.

Mac hardware is still vastly superior since many cheapo PC Windows box manufacturers, like Dell, cut corners by putting cheap, defective RAM in their products that endlessly reeks havoc on unknowing PC buyers that just put up with endless crashes, app freezes and update failures.

So I say “be a Mac and a PC”, put a ball and chain on Justin Long and drop him in the ocean, buy a good anti-virus app for your PC, run the built-in RAM test when you first buy a PC, enjoy using your Mac and maintaining your PC, and quit whining about an article on a website that is the “Spike Channel” of the tech and stock world.