A rough apple day...I'm switching back to microsoft

It's a sad day. I'm switching back to PCs and Microsoft products.  Yesterday, I took the leap and purchased a iPhone!  First impressions were awesome. The packaging was great. The product was sleek. And then came sign up. I fought through the sign up and got everything working. It took longer than I'd like largely because  I'm not familiar with apple's basic software packages. I'm sure they're a better user experience than Microsoft's but I just got fed up with my own lack of knowledge and expertise. By lunch today, I admitted defeat. I admitted that I have better and more important tasks on my hands than to fighting through the transition curve back to apple products.  My decision was influenced by the fact that I am running an entire PC network at home and that switching to a single Mac at work just wouldn't work for me. Purchasing the iPhone meant I was going to have to convert my home network too and I just wasn't willing to take up all the time that that was going to take. I guess I'm just a PC nerd. I hope Redmond will take me back as a customer.

Comments

[ask bjoern hansen]

Ooh - the irony. I haven't visited here for a while but when I did just now i used my iPhone. :-)

It will work with windows too, no? Maybe changing phone and computer at the same time is a bit too much.

-ask

[Fancy Pants McDonnell]

I gotta admit: I can't empathize at all on the home network. How can it be proprietary to Microsoft? My Mac can easily share the printers, broadband connection, and other resources with the PCs at home.

[Fazal Majid]

Er, you do realize the iPhone is compatible with Windows and Outlook, right? It syncs through the Windows version of iTunes.

[Tom Higley]

I can relate. But when I made the transition from PC (back to Mac, since I was there from '84-91), I was pretty much retired had retreated into my own world (and for awhile to Maine). So I had time to work through many of the things that were such a pain at the outset. I still lament the loss of some of the keyboard shortcuts that were so much a part of the way I dealt with the PC.

These days I'm spending 2/3 of my time on a PC (at the office) and the rest on a Mac (at home). I have to say, I can't stand how long it takes my PC to wake up after it's been put to sleep. Drives me nuts.

[Derek Scruggs]

I almost went back, but then bought David Pogue's book and that got me over the hump. QuickSilver alone has been worth it, though I miss Picasa.

[Chris]

"Purchasing the iPhone meant I was going to have to convert my home network too."

Huh? At what point did purchasing an iPhone require that you switch your entire network to Macs? For that matter, when did the iPhone even require one Mac?

I don't have an iPhone, but my understanding is that it is activated through iTunes. My own experience shows that iTunes works the same way on the PC as it does the Mac, meaning you should have no problems using it either way.

[Tak]

It's OK to admit you are retarded.

[Roz]

It's the human dilemma, not really so much an issue about Mac's -- change is hard because overcoming entropy is hard by definition. It's a fundamental law of nature, isn't it?...Also, you probably figured you have already invested so much time and energy learning how to deal with PC's maybe it doesn't make sense to have any learning curve with Mac's? Mac's are easy though, really. Facing the fact that you are getting what is known as "old," in the sense of less flexible and resistant to change is sad, but maybe you were just having a stress meltdown that day...

[Brad]

I think the first step would be to get a macbook or macbook pro. Try out the mac os. You'll find that you will love it. No problems, viruses. In due time you will find yourself switching over completely like myself.

[Chris]

As a Linux user I feel I can be subjective. Macs have the style and the interface but little else. Functionality is the same Mac or PC (or linux for that matter) just pick the right software. For the price of a 24" iMac I bought 2 24" monitors 1500tb of hard drive a decent core i7 and a radeon 4890....go figure which piece of kit has more horsepower for the price mac or pc. My experience with macs has been that everything goes fine until you ask it to acutually do some serious work (then you better have a good book handy....) plus when my comp starts feeling sluggish I can upgrade the bottleneck component for $500 rather than have to buy a new imac for $2000.