Oh, I Should Point This Out

I know that the Mac folks are desperate to believe that everyone is out to get them. They have these knee-jerk reactions if someone says something less than wonderful about any Mac product.

So of course they’re accusing me of hating the iPod because I didn’t gush about it, and, in fact, dared to question its huge market share. (If you don’t love everything from Apple unconditionally, you’re obviously a Mac hater, you see.)

But to be clear: I don’t know whether the iPod is the best MP3 player around. It may be, it may not be. [shrug] I don’t really care. All I said was that I was shocked at its market share because there are other good products out there doing the same thing.

Of course, to Mac users this is blasphemy: Daring to question to superiority of anything from Apple is unacceptable. When Steve Jobs leaves the bathroom, it smells like roses, I’m sure.