While Karina spends today in Mac heaven, I’m celebrating my PC. Well, maybe celebrating isn’t the right word since I’m taking humorous delight in its faults. Just as I greatly enjoy the “I’m a PC; I’m a Mac” ads, I find this parody of The Matrix hilarious, because like so many frustrated computer users, I work with Windows. I truly never thought that I’d be entertained by something involving that annoying little paper clip fellow, but that lampooning of the spoon-bending scene is priceless.
This clip almost makes me grateful that I’ve experienced all of Windows’ many problems. But I’m no Microsoft defender. I’m just a cheap and lazy consumer. And I’ve had a laptop stolen by a junkie, so I’ll always be hesitant to spend a lot on a machine. But now that Netflix Watch Now works on a Mac, there’s not a whole lot other than price that’s keeping me buying a Macbook. And since my present laptop no longer plays DVDs, it might just be time to pay a visit to the Apple Store. Then again, if I stop using Windows, I might not be able to fully appreciate comedic videos like the one above.
If you, like me, are both a Mac user and a Netflix user, then the fact that the latter’s Watch Instantly movie streaming service is incompatible with the former’s devices is probably one of the banes of your existence (unless you have a life beyond movies, and your computer, and watching movies on your computer. Must be nice.) I’ve always just assumed that Netflix was responsible for the so-1999 decision to ignore the growing market of Mac users and keep the platform PC-only.
I was, apparently, wrong.
Hacking Netflix has linked to a CES interview with Netflix’s Steve Swasey, in which he responds to the “why can’t a playa watch a movie on a Mac, y’all?” question rather defensively: …Read more
We’ve had a bit of trouble getting this episode to go through the iTunes feed, so we hope this re-post will fix the problem. The original post, with episode description and embedded player, is here.
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If you, like me, are both a Mac user and a Netflix user, then the fact that the latter’s Watch Instantly movie streaming service is incompatible with the former’s devices is probably one of the banes of your existence (unless you have a life beyond movies, and your computer, and watching movies on your computer. Must be nice.) I’ve always just assumed that Netflix was responsible for the so-1999 decision to ignore the growing market of Mac users and keep the platform PC-only.
