Mac vs. PC - the Great Debate

…Is it really?

The Windows machines rule the greater population. More applications and software, easier attainability, better prices…and the list goes on. But, when I found myself perusing Newsweek’s recent interview with Bill Gates I never would have thought it would evoke such an emotional response.

Why is this corporate goliath knocking his competition if there really isn’t any threat? Is Microsoft finally concerned with the 5% of the population they don’t have control over?

If it’s irrelevant, why criticize Apple by saying there’s not the slightest shred of truth to their recent ads. Is there really no truth? I may not be a Vista developer (who according to Gates are miles ahead of the Apple OSX developers) but as an average user, I find real truth in their ads. Even more than that — effectiveness. I believe this to be advertising in its true glory. Calling out your competitor on their disadvantages and showing your audience that you could actually have a better product. Brilliant. To me (I may personally find Apple computers to be much more “out of the box” than the clunky piece-o-metal my spouse calls a computer), Gates comes off as not only bitter, but also agitated his products may be subject to the pillar of this great capitalist society: Competition.

And then again perhaps my thoughts are merely irrelevant because let’s face it, the Apple is much prettier and really, that’s all us artsy folks care about isn’t it?

Which do you think is better? Weigh in on the great debate.