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Originally Posted by Chris T
Furthermore, he seems to think the fact he uses a Mac gvies him licence to throw phrases like 'smug Mac users' around with impunity, and the sum total of his understanding of social networking seems to be derived from peering over his daughter's shoulder while she's on MySpace.
Still, it's a good gig if you can get it. I wonder how much of our licence fee the Beeb bungs his way in exchange for their weekly ration of techno-drivel?
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The problem is that he has to have a 'view' and he has to have one every week or so. He properly has to think up concepts and write about them, and may not be interested in the subject. Ars Technica have much better articles and I suspect it's down to opinion articles coming up less often per writer and a genuine interest.
That Mac article he did took the mick however. Most mac users would say their machine is safe (it is) and their no viruses in the wild (their are not). It's not smug to mention that. Also, most of us do take security provisions and understand we could be in danger at any point.
The way he did a follow up article on the response was stupid. He picked up on the vocal minority of idiotic mac users and made a article on it. I could do the same for idiotic windows users.