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10/19/2005, 5:25pm, EDT
Wednesday, October 19th
Most mainstream writers are bias Mac-users?
Microsoft is getting the short end of the stick as far as media coverage, because today's newspaper and magazine tech writers know little about computers and are all Mac users, according to John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine. The top columnists in the news and business magazines fit this model as well, while tech writers and tech columnists for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Fortune are all Mac users, according to Dvorak. "This reality is not going to change. In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer." Dvorak says that probably the best thing Microsoft could have ever done was copy as much of the Mac OS look-and-feel as it could, and says that "Microsoft should make some headway with this biased crowd once the fanciful Xbox 360 arrives. It's got a creative GUI, is easy to use and navigate, and kind of has a Mac look to it. It also interfaces perfectly with the iPod."
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Apple gets press because Apple takes chances, Apple innovates, Apple breaks new ground for others to follow. What Apple does and where Apple goes is where the industry will follow... eventually. THAT'S why Apple gets so much press.
Microsoft blatantly copies Apple innovations, then implements them poorly and we're supposed to care?
Dell changes the color of a generic PC case or adds a plastic panel with some slots and curves and this is innovation?
And Dvorak wonders why tech writers write about Apple?
Can't believe PCMag still employ that guy!