Open your eyes

I may seem too positive about iPad and overly pro-Apple in my previous writing. I don’t believe I am and I will certainly try not to be. It’s just that they make very polished products that I find easy and fun to use.

In parallel I use Windows at school and also for work and I don’t have anything against using it. On the contrast, I really like using the new Windows 7, which I find very slick and polished compared to previous versions. I also try to keep myself updated on the Linux side, which I used to use as my sole system for many years, so I hope and aim to stay objective during the never-ending OS war.
I found out after testing many other systems that OS X fits me personally very well, but at the same time I believe all systems are quite capable depending on which purpose you are using them for. I guess I just want to say, don’t be **** a fanboy!

Regardless of whether the issue is about OSes or VI vs Emacs, MS Office vs OpenOffice, PSP vs NDS, it all depends on what we want to do, we should choose the tool which we feel comfortable using, simply speaking, whatever gets the work done. Computers were made for helping us work, and when we work, we should use whatever tool can help us do that. Computers can certainly be a hobby too and from that point of view it’s nothing wrong to play around with other systems. I just want to say, don’t be a bonehead and a fanboy when it comes to work, use whatever is best for the task! It really annoys me sometimes when I read about people that stand by their favorite system no matter what the facts are. There’s way too much of that out there!

I can definitely understand if people have a very strong ideological view, for instance regarding open source, and choose their software according to that, but if you do that don’t say that what you are using is the best, in cases where it clearly is not. Just because you prefer using it doesn’t mean that it’s the best, try to get some perspective on things and look at the situation from a different angle.

I usually don’t rant about things, but I have seen a lot of useless, and rubbish comments in the last couple of days about the iPad, which made me frustrated to say the least. I get the comments about iPad being a completely closed computer, and I agree to a certain extent and find that aspect of it frustrating, but it seems like people are only looking at the bad side of it and completely shuts out everything else, unable to see the true potential of this device.

Open your eyes, and you will soon see.