Apple computers and Apple cup
Published 11:39 pm Monday, November 19, 2007
Considering a Macintosh?Personal technology columnist Walter Mossberg has answers to your questions.
Well, some of them, anyway. Here are two questions Mossberg didn’t tackle:
If Macs work better, why do Windows PCs dominate the market? Here’s one clue: The first Macintosh, introduced in 1984, cost nearly 5 grand in inflation-adjusted dollars and could run maybe four applications.
Why do journalists go ga-ga over Apple? Steve Jobs wears those cool black turtlenecks. Bill Gates looks like a community college economics instructor explaining escrow.
The first shot has been fired in Apple Cup week. A University of Washington lineman expressed doubt about the value of a Washington State University degree. We’d say one WSU degree equals five from the UW School of Communications.
Baby Boomer Pop-Culture Touchstone Dept.: Dick Wilson, the actor who played Mr. Whipple in those “please don’t squeeze the Charmin” TV commercials, has died.
Like all scolds, Mr. Whipple was also a hypocrite — after shooing away the Charmin-squeezing housewives, he invariably would succumb to fondling the pillowy-soft TP himself.
