September 24, 2008 (vol. 119, iss. 17) • Page Image 15
…0 e 0 e 0 0 0 6B The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 QUOTES OF THE WEEK i:. X Showdown in the Fishbowl The "Mac V. PC" culture war As Apple would have it, your choice of laptop…
…," she said. While the actual numb computers (132) does o the count of its operating counterpart (91), Fishbov puter consultant Sakif Im the aesthetic appeal of Ma more students in. "I think people nowa…
… draws days go e of the bigger," ple going the new d at the said that rs go for will .look o a large c, which he Macs eir deci- sions on whichever computer is available. Mohit Mehan, LSA junior and Mac…
… try to get what you can get, because it's a mad rush," he said. But this struggle extends beyond the glass walls of Angell Hall's computing site. Dumas, the Wired editor, said that while Microsoft…
… dominates the market, Apple's small yet engaged consumer base is a very big asset. "Microsoft has a lot of peo- ple who use their product so in terms of sheer numbers, PCs are definitely winning," he said…
…. "But Macs are slowly gaining market share and they have a very, sort of small, niche group of people who are very, very dedicated to Apple and Macs." The clearest example of this cul- tural schism…
…, according to Dumas, is Apple's ad campaign starring actor Justin Long as the hipster incarnation of a Mac and humor- ist John Hodgeman as the uncool and absentminded personification of a PC. In the U.S., this…
…, Bill Gates, and comedian Jerry Sein- feld, as an attempt "to make them- selves look and feel sort of cooler, to tap into (Apple's) market." But for Mehan, the cultural implications of choosing an oper…
…'s going to work." Dumas said the Mac operating system is actually "more stable" than Microsoft's Vista operat- ing system. This is because Apple builds the latest version of its operating software onto the…
