Apple Store Is Down, Rumors Abound

You’re a brave man to ask such questions, sir.

For home use, I like Windows, because I use my PC for gaming almost exclusively. I’m still on XP because I can’t abide the idea of Vista. I’d really like to get a Mac at some point, but I just don’t feel like it’s a competitive gaming system at this point. Maybe things have caught up and I’m just stuck in the past?

Peter Ha’s been here for two days and already doubled the recent output of Quittner and Selman and is approaching Lev’s posting numbers for October. And he mentions BSG. I don’t know if I should feel grateful or pandered too.

Oh, and I don’t care about OS’s because networked computers will be the doom of us all.

As a reader of both Daring Fireball and Fake Steve I am already aware of this, therefore I’m only commenting because I want someone to pay attention to me. That said, to answer your question, I’d prefer one nerd blog that only focused on the Apple/PC issue when it is A) from a personal perspective, such as Matt’s MacWorld Rumor Roundup, or B) relevant in a larger context to geek issues, like when Lev loses his iPhone (again). Frankly, there’s enough news aggregate sites out there. I like this one because it’s generally personal or, in Selman’s case, geek-wacky-fiction.

Duly noted.

I pretty much agree with the above. There is one obvious thing this blog lacks, of course…

Ooo, maybe Peter can get the TIME webmonkeys to fix the bouncy page load when viewing these TIME blogs on a mac using safari. I think its caused by the ads and doesn’t happen when using a PC.

Oh Gods yes! (I wait for the first ‘bounce’ then hit cancel. That usually allows the comments to load. It’s still annoying enough that I shun other Time sites, but a bit quicker.)

The webmonkeys seem to have been concentrating on the mobile version, which is much better. Maybe Time is trying to sell iPhones?

I’ve been reading for a while, but virtually never comment. I come for the personal perspective and the humor and stay for the BSG digs in the comments. Good work harassing Lev, guys.

I’m a mac and you’re a Peter Ha.

Does anyone else have the odd page hang-ups in Firefox? It doesn’t happen all the time, and I’m pretty sure it only happens when I’m at work, but some days, whenever I load a blog page, Firefox hangs for ~10 seconds. Long enough to bother me, but not quite long enough to inspire me to actually do work. (ABP is running just fine, though, so I’m wondering if there’s something screwed up with WordPress that doesn’t like the firewall at work or something.)

On topic: I’m a Windows guy. I’ve always been too lazy to play around with the various forms of Linux and other OS’s. I was house sitting for a friend who has a Mac, and it took me 10 minutes to find the power button (true story: they’ve got one of the 22 or 23″ Mac-in-the-screen beasts, and the power button is in the middle of the back… are people just not supposed to turn their Macs off, or are they supposed to have the room built into their setup to be able to reach around and turn it on?).

So Peter, when you’re playing WoW, and someone says something funny in gchat, and someone else responds, “HA!”, do you respond?

I was a mac guy throughout school but switched to windows once I was in the workforce. Switching between the mac at home and windows at work began taking up too much time. Also, I like being able to fix and upgrade my own hardware which is much easier with a pc. Finally, I hate AT&T, so that settles that.

Yeah, what dennitzio said.

Since we’re being all meta:
1) I’m a Mac. Hence, in Safari all the TIME blog pages go all bouncy while loading.
2) The BSG digs got old and played out a lot time ago, imo.
3) Really, 4 people to do what James Poniewozik does over on Tuned In all by his lonesome?

Aaaand the webmonkeys screwed it up already. I can’t see comments from my phone anymore. Thanks, Time, for diverting me to a place that’s LESS useful.

Now I know why there’s no Suckolympics for Web Dev. Time would have it sewn up.