Mac Users Froth…
Yep, all those letters were real. My USA Today editor took out the details of the writers. Here is the relevant section with the names of the writers intact:
(Dr. Jeffrey Reese Zavaleta (drzavaleta@mac.com), an M.D. in Irving, Tex., asked, “What do you mean by ‘little people’? I’m 6′0.” He then suggested that I “Go back to your winblows software and be happy.”)
[snip]
Mac Daily something
What kind of people read Mac Daily News? Although I got some polite letters “correcting” me (my information was already correct), most were along the lines of what Mac user “gabeharville” wrote. His note had a subject of “you suck, you f—-n little b—-f–” and read simply, “F–K YOU, F–K YOUF–K YOUF–K YOUF–K…” And so on, for several more lines. I’ve added the dashes here; he didn’t.
AnotherMac user, one “rp” (finalcutpro78@yahoo.com) had this to say: “Wake up an [sic] smell the roses a–hole. PC’s [sic] are far behind Macs. Get you [sic] f–king s–t straight you f–king geek.”
In a later note “rp” pointed me to a pro-Mac article with a note, “This guy is up for the next Pulitzer you f–king fat pig faced gay b–tch c–t bag pole smoking mofo. Take notes you a–hole.”
And points for brevity go to Mac user “Nick” from Albany, N.Y. (macattack15@spymac.com), who wrote, simply, “douche.” Yep, that was the entirely of his note.
You can almost picture these folks, sitting in their bedrooms in their Moms’ basements, candles burning in front of the Steve Jobs poster, scouring the Net for anyone who doesn’t speak highly enough about the Mac.
Michael says:
Andrew, when you can write like this…
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments_opinion/4367/
…we’ll bother listening to your opinions.