Changes of mind or Change of minds?

Here's what I'd written last year.

Macs

Over-rated.

Ok, I admit that I’ve never really used one extensively. But whatever little I have, I didn’t find it so amazingly different from my trusted PC, that I would want one right away. I think what Steve Jobs has managed to do is to create a cult following for Macs through some brilliant marketing. Everyone loves to hate the big guy and would like to have a choice where they don’t HAVE to buy his products. Steve has only offered them that.

There might be some people who believe strongly enough in this to buy the product. No problem with that, but don’t constantly keep telling me how the Mac is superior to the PC. I don’t think it is and I can do without your post-purchase rationalisation, thank you.

I do love the Mac vs PC ads though. That’s just it – brilliant marketing of an ok product.


Coming back to today, how things have changed! Today I'm a year old iPhone user and evangelist. My blackberry has been expelled from my life in mind, body and spirit. There are things that you can do with your iPhone that cannot even be imagined with any other handset. I have realised that before I know it, I have become exactly one of those who I used to so shortsightedly and immaturedly disdain - the community of Apple lovers.

Thanks to the iPhone, I was slowly initiated into the Mac world. Started with iTunes. Then MobileMe. Then Safari. And then the unthinkable happened. I read a book called 'Inside Steve's Brain' by Leander Kahney and today I'm a total convert. Steve Jobs is not only brilliant but he's the closest we can have these days to being a genius inventor and marketeer.

I've already been to the Apple outlet once and salivated. Now I can't wait to take the plunge.

I'm going to do something that does not come easy to me. But for the sake of Steve, I apologise for what I thought earlier and take everything back. Steve, you are the stuff that Ayn Rand's heroes are made of. Keep walking dude!

And for the record, the Mac vs PC ads helped.