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The Phoenix, an award-winning publication of the arts and entertainment, is carrying a wide-ranging interview with John Hodgman—"PC" in Apple's current Mac-specific advertising. As it turns out, he can't be counted among the unwashed, and is actually rather witty and urbane: I myself am a Mac user. I bought the very first Mac, or convinced my father to buy it, in 1984. I used it through high school and college; it was the first computer I used outside of college, then I went though a brief period of exile during my corporate years as a professional literary agent, where I was forced to use a PC... What's more his observations about his character nail with clarity some of the paradoxes of the PC / Mac divide: Mac has always gotten the design and the interface down pat ... PC’s efforts to emulate this, and its constant failing, and its self-satisfied arrogance about it being the most used platform in the world, all of that made it very easy to craft a character who, while he is a boob, and often concerned about how he comes off, at his core really feels bad for the Mac. Is really so delusional to believe he’s much cooler than the Mac. Check out Hodgman's blog or learn more about his just-released book, The Areas of My Expertise, which described as "an omnibus compendium of probable falsehoods." An apparently interesting fellow... What's your take?
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