b.tween 08 Mac invasion
Forgive this mini-post it’s inherent brevity, but I had to share an observation from the floor of this year’s b.tween digital media festival being held in Manchester - an observation I also made at the Thinking Digital conference in Gateshead a few weeks back.
The observation is this: that of the many, many laptops snuggling on delegates’ knees during the run of presentations, the vast majority are Macs. Not just half - I mean really, the vast majority. The number of PC laptops are countable on one hand at times.
What’s the deal? Is the technorati of UK digital media industry more inclined to Apple’s platform? A room full of evangelists smugly parading their wares as some kind of status symbol? I was reassured that all was well with the world when one presenter, a self-confessed ‘Mac illiterate’, tried to open a link from a PowerPoint only for Safari to implode on itself in a blaze of glory. Remember, they’re still just computers, and they still go wrong. (Just not as often…!)