Respect Sakura

Seems to be a favourite topic of mine these days, but Chris Pirillo made the rounds in the intarweb e-blogging circlejerk crowd lately, over his somewhat padded (and overly sponsored) 50 Reasons to switch to OS X. This, of course, lead to the kneejerk reaction from some Windows fanboy to dispute his statements with even more misinformed crap, and the ability to denounce facts or claims by platform preference alone. Normally, noone would pay any attention to some dick who states he can debunk something purely because he says so, unless you’re in the enviable position of being plagarised by the copy and paste merchants from Neowin.

My take? I think Chris’s article is awfully shady. I mean, I like the man. I used to subscribe to Lockergnome’s mailing list back in the mid to late 90’s. The whole product placement thing, and the fact that the site is littered with ads instantly makes me distrustful of anything stated on his site, but I gotta admit - I agree with most of his good points about OS X in comparison to XP/Vista. On the flipside, I don’t pay any attention to Neowin’s “writers” in the off chance they actually produce original content, and the site’s legion of fanboys rank even lower on my couldn’t-give-a-fuck-about scale - mostly because I recall the days when Neowin first came about, said fanboys were busy hacking away at Windows XP’s skinning feature to make it look more like OS X. iRony++;

Now, I don’t give a fuck what you use, and I certainly don’t expect my preferences, needs, experiences or whatever to translate in any shape, form, or whatever to you, the reader. Furthermore, this is my blog. Because it’s my blog, I write whatever the hell I want on here, and it’s your choice as to whether you’re going to read it or not. You may also notice that because it’s my blog, there’s no advertising on here. I don’t advertise, I don’t use referrals. For example, my web host apis networks has a referral system. However, when people ask me what host I use, and if they’re any good or not, I send them a URL to apis’s front page and let them decide. I’ll be happy to say what I think is cool about them, but overall, it’s up to them to decide. The same goes for what platform you choose. It’s pointless for me to be an evangelist when I’m pretty much an antisocial prick, anyways. So I’ll just sprout my opinion, and if it falls in line with what you think - cool. If not, go somewhere else.