Column 5 Mac voyeurs: All talk, no action
David Coursey,
Executive Editor, AnchorDesk
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
Have you heard about the Mac voyeurs? I’ve been running into them in spades lately. Maybe you’ve met them, too. Or perhaps you, yourself, are a Mac voyeur, and don’t even know it.
Mac voyeurs are people who want to know all about my Macintosh project. They are intensely interested in knowing everything about how the Mac works. That’s innocent enough, but it grows from there.
THESE PEOPLE tell me—almost emotionally—how important they think Macintosh is. They usually say something like, “It keeps Microsoft honest” or “Bill Gates stole all his good ideas from Apple.”
They speculate about what a genius Steve Jobs must be. “You’ve really ...
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