iMadick

I hate Apple Macs. Or rather, I hate the rabid fanboi users of Apple Macs. It’s not enough that they have to sit in smug satisfaction with their smooth, relatively featurless, silver boxes, they just have to tell you how good it is, how stable it is, and how it will never, ever be susceptible to a virus.

Ask a Mac user what, for instance, Photoshop is like on a Mac, and you’ll get an answer something along the lines of “It’s amazing. So much better than the PC version. Of course, that’s Macs are so fantastic. They never crash you know, and you can’t get a virus…”

Anyway, this iHatred has spilled over to pretty much every iToy that they’ve released so naturally, when the iPhone was released, I chose the Nokia N95. Arguably it’s a better phone, more feature packed than the iPhone, and this has been confirmed by many reviews.

Recently my work colleague, who is a self-confessed TMG (Tedious Mac Geek), was showing me a Carling Lager promotional game on his iPhone. It’s a simple affair; using the tilt sensor you have to slide a pint of lager along a bar, avoiding obstacles, until it lands in the hands of a drinker. Once you successfully complete the task, the screen changes into a beer glass and fills with lager. Using the tilt sensor again, you can tip up the phone and ‘drink’ the lager (the liquid disappears as you tilt).

In that moment I felt my principles crumble. Because of one stupid, childish little game, my inner geek took over and an overwhelming feeling of iWantone washed over me.

I’m ashamed, I feel dirty, but my inner geek is too strong.