Don Dodge describes himself in his previous life, five years with Microsoft, as a ‘Microsoft evangelist to the startup and venture capital community’. But all of that came to an end when he went to work for Google. He states that he was a free bird and was able to try other products like an Apple Macbook. In mentioned that while working at Microsoft the company frowned on those who used products from the dark side. LOL

The one thing he mentions about making the switch, one of which I would consider the most important, was this:

End to end experience – One of the major advantages Apple has is controlling the end to end user experience. This means the hardware works perfectly with the software. Networks, printers, and other peripheral devices work out of the box without lots of setup, configuration, and preferences. For years this has been a major advantage for Apple. The downside was that Apple products cost more and you could only get software and peripheral devices from limited sources. Microsoft, in contrast, was the Swiss Army Knife of the tech world. It could do anything with any vendor of any hardware, software, of game maker. All these choices from different vendors caused lots of variation in design, installation, OS requirements, and overall user experience. The Apple experience was just easier and more elegant.

I believe Don explains what the major differences are between a PC and a Mac in his statement above. But the statement he makes below, caught my funny bone and made me chuckle:

My mother who doesn’t use computers, and doesn’t really understand them, asked me how the transition was going. I said “Imagine you learned to drive in the USA and had been driving a Ford Mustang for 20 years. Now imagine you moved to the United Kingdom and started driving a Jaguar on the left side of the road. The Jaguar is an elegant car, and wonderful to drive, but it takes a while to get used to the other side of the road.

This is one of the best descriptions that I have ever read about how it feels to switch from a PC to a Mac. Thanks Do. That was great!

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