10 Oct 09 Anti? Not Really, Just Not Pro Either!

It was recently said to me that I was surely anti-Apple as I didn’t have an iPod, a Mac or use iTunes.

Well, although I do have some computers running Windows, I also run Linux as well on others. Oh, and I don’t have any kind of Zune either or an XBox.

It’s not that I am against these products, but that I simply don’t need them.

I’ve gone down the Windows route for nearly a quarter century. It’s been a lousy OS much of the time, only really getting better when XP came along. Even so, it’s the only Microsoft product I have that I’ve paid for. No, I haven’t pirated the rest, I simply don’t use them. I find OpenOffice to be a fine product and it does everything I need.

I do less and less local document processing these days anyway with much more being cloud based. Same goes for email. I simply can’t justify $00′s of dollars on MS Office. I don’t have the bother of sync issues either.

As for the audio players, I have a perfectly good Blackberry Curve that provides me with reasonable audio and video playback, so why spend money on and carry about another device? It also links with my bluetooth car audio system.

So no, I’m not anti-Apple,or even Microsoft I just don’t need the products.

Oh, by the way, I didn’t write this blog post on an Apple, Microsoft or Linux system. Nope. The Blackberry scored again!

Tags: apple. microsoft, ipod, mp3 player, zune