journal: mac · think

*Tap tap* Is this thing on?

I guess it’s been a while since anything’s been posted here, so I figure I may as well use good ol’ DT as a personal blog of sorts. Anyway, here it goes!

Over the past few days, while following the iPhone 4 launch coverage it’s occurred to me that the old platform wars are over, Nobody really gives a crap about Mac vs. PC any longer. It may explain why macvswindows has gone quiet as of late.

Instead, the debate has shifted to phones, and Microsoft is nowhere to be seen. It’s Google and Apple duking it out. And fans of those companies too. And not surprising, the arguments for Android are quite similar to those once used to support using Windows. The anti- and pro-iPhone comments are reminiscent to what people once said about the Mac. And it’s remarkable how quickly things have turned too. Even one year ago there was still plenty of chatter surrounding Windows and Mac. After all, Apple was still running its “Get a Mac” ads, and Microsoft was firing back.

Heck, we’re even seeing the same overblown rhetoric! (Google can’t be trusted! Apple is too closed! The iPhone will be dead in a year! Android is too hard to use!)

I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but I just have to wonder...what will next year’s big debate be?