Switcher Diary: Janie Porche

Throughout this book I will be introducing you to people who have switched (or added) a Mac to their lives. Some of these will be people from the Apple ads (I call them “celebrity Switchers”), and the others will be people who responded to Apple’s request for Switcher stories—but didn’t get into the ads—or to a request I put out on ZDNet AnchorDesk.

Janie Porche, the woman who used a Mac to “save Christmas,” is a Texan, just like me. She grew up there and is also attending college in the Lone Star state. None of this I would have guessed from the commercial, but I am proud of her, the way all Texans are proud of ...

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