Saturday, October 15, 2005
Another reason to love Mac's
I was wandering around a computer shop today & went over to the Mac section, they were showing off the new OS X and all the machines were running some kind of news ticker screensaver that faded in and out headlines with “look at our graphics” effects. The problem was the headlines they were showing: “Rains compound the misery of millions of homeless victims a week after Pakistan’s worst earthquake” which fades in and various translucent shapes float by in the background. It then gracefully spins out to be replaced by “Building collapses killing 5 people” It’s all so casual and trendy and brain dead. How stupid are they? I love the way they push how they’re cooler than Windows but if this is how they show it they should “think different” themselves and stop putting style over substance.