Phil's post in reply to mine was incredibly funny (http://www.nzmac.com/community-blog/why-darryn-got-the-tech-pundits-wrong.html). In it he accuses me of not reading what the pundits wrote (which I did) and then goes into a tirade that proves he never really read my post but skimmed through it and had a go at me for what he perceived I had written.

My post was purely quashing the negative comments that the pundits wrote about the iPad that were largely baseless in the first place. Many of the pundits had never seen the device so their comments were flame bait at best. Their posts were largely based on rumours that they themselves made up to get hits. They were wrong for saying the iPad failed to live up to expectations when those expectations were made up and not based on anything tangible. Phil however completely and utterly removed ALL context from my post and then made his post based on that contextless version of my post.

The context of the post was in the title. The tech pundits were spewing all sorts of rubbish that completely removed everything about existing history of iPhone OS based devices from the last three years to make it sound like the iPad is a bland device that will fail.

It's an interesting thing being a Mac user in a PC world. I used to get mocked for owning a Mac and one of the main culprits was a guy who used to be one of two of my team leaders who I have a problem with one account of him seeming to have a problem with me for no real valid reason. Needless to say we have never seen eye to eye and so it was no surprise that he'd try and take me on with regards to my choice of computer.

I used to bite like a rabid wolverine as well trying to defend Apple then I stopped. I didn't stop because I didn't think Apple was worthy of my defence but because I came to the realisation that arguing with morons isn't really worth my time and effort. I would be saying the same old thing all the time which got boring.

I think this approach is better because as of now he is a Mac owner having just bought a 24" iMac. His reason for change of heart? He had to rebuild his machine and got annoyed with Vista and the fact that it wouldn't register on his machine properly. Ironically I think it's at the stage where Microsoft themselves are promoting buying a Mac because of their draconian rules and scumbag practises.

They say that if you want to see what will be in cars in 5 years time, look at what Mercedes has in theirs now. Fantastic, just what we need is more arrogant pratts who don't know how to use an indicator. Oh wait... they meant technology wise.

The problem is we're putting computers into things that by all rights shouldn't have computers in them. In the case of cars we are making cars less driver friendly and more reliant on technology that can fail at the worst possible time.

Computers in planes is a good idea but should never be relied upon. Computers in cars makes