And so it begins

Over five years ago I wrote a commentary piece bitching about OS fanatics (archived here if you care for the additional context), in which the following sentence appeared:

I'd hate to think of [OS fanaticism] progressing to something like a Mac cult deciding to wipe Redmond, Washington off the map because they thought Steve Jobs put some sort of hidden message in Mac OS X.

Now comes word of a man in New Zealand running down a woman at a church, jumping out of the vehicle with his laptop, and shouting Steve Jobs's name. Clearly, this is only the start of the larger OS wars, as apparently those Methodists were all Windows users and had to be dealt with first. I suggest Microsoft beef up security around its campus, as I was obviously prescient in my earlier piece. I guess those hidden messages in OS X took a little longer to filter down to the faithful than I originally thought.

At any rate, I'm sure the Mac haters out there will have a field day with this one. I hope that poor woman pulls through.

Posted at 02:54PM Jul 24, 2007 by Kevin Schmitt in Mac and Apple  |  Comments[0]