Gloat 

I've never really liked Apple and their products. I intensely dislike QuickTime, iTunes even more. With the hardware, I have little experience - I used an ancient Mac to make graphs in one of my chemistry labs (the one-button mouse was hilarious), and I have a single iPod (the first generation Shuffle), but what I've used never managed to awe me. I don't personally know any Mac fanatics, but from what I've seen on the internet, they are an obnoxious bunch. Couple them with Apple's not-products-but-lifestyle philosophy, and you have me recoiling in disgust.

Having said this, I'm not that big on Windows. I use it only because it does all the things I want my computers to do. It doesn't do them stellarly well, so if I find an alternative that can do the same, I'll become a convert. And no, sorry, Lunix is far, far from being it.

So it was hard to imagine, even to me, the amount of satisfaction I felt when I read first about the iPod price thing, then about the disaster that is the Leopard. Steve isn't a god after all, eh, fanboys?