The iPad always seemed like a novelty to me. An expensive and fancy reader and web browser thingy. That’s only because I didn’t have one. Now I do, and yes, it still is an expensive and fancy reader, but I discovered this brilliant little app that teaches you Lua through an interactive interface (pic). Now we’re talking!

Oh and this was written with the iPad, so I guess there are more uses for it after all. All in all, I’m loving it. I’m not yet convinced it will become an irreplaceable tool or be a novelty for a while. One thing is for sure, it is the best book I’ve read in a long time.

I do hope this will inspire me to blog a bit more. I do miss blogging a lot.

Into my life prowls Snow Leopard. Since I’ve upgraded I’ve had the Apple Blue Screen of Death twice. Apple seriously need to sort out their flakey 64bit OS. Really.

While I’m at it, isn’t this 64bit OS supposed to be faster?! On my Unibody Macbook it certainly is not. In fact, it is slower and I see the dreaded pinwheel of death more and more.

Dare I say I see a re-install coming? Or worse, downgrade to Leopard again? That is the Windows way which is not why we use Apple. Anybody else experiencing serious issues with Snow Leopard?

“There are people who have an MBA and there are people who have an MBA. It’s something people in SA don’t want to hear but it’s very different studying at a local school and studying at one of the world’s top universities. If you want to do an MBA, go to one of the well-established institutions, otherwise you’re wasting your time and money.”

(Photo credit: Tech Central)

It is just a pity that they did not have a class in Common Sense. After the Twitter PR disaster and more recently the article on Tech Central in which he states that he “prefers fine wine to bloggers”, I thought I’d lay out a couple of facts.

Let me start by stating that my decision to acquire an Apple Mac can directly be contributed to 3 prominent bloggers. Mike Stopforth, Dave Duarte and Justin Hartman. Today I own 2 Macbooks, 1 Mac mini, 1 iPod Touch and 2 iPhones. If I’m not mistaken it was Mike, Justin and myself that also tipped Mark Forrester‘s decision to buy an Apple. (Mark, am I correct in saying this?) I can think of a number of bloggers that has invested in Apple Macs and I think I’d be safe to say their decision was greatly influenced by their peers [read: bloggers].

Thats all good and well, but let’s face it, these couple of sales won’t buy RJ an year’s supply of fine wine. Hardly. So I turned to Afrigator and extracted a couple of statistics regarding bloggers and Apple:

“Apple Mac” 3372 blog posts written by 754 bloggers.
“iPhone” 7552 blog posts written by 949 bloggers.
“iPod” 4344 blog posts written by 1242 bloggers.
“OS X” 1272 blog posts written by 520 bloggers.

Not quite so insignificant. Consider that the average Apple user tends to vigorously defend the Apple brand whenever anything is said or whenever Microsoft Windows gets a bit too much exposure. I wrote two bashing Windows 7 posts just last week. RJ, money can’t buy this. Just to put it into perspective:

“Windows 7” 845 blog posts written by 207 bloggers.
“Windows Mac” 1474 blog posts written by 551 bloggers.

Consider that Windows 7 is probably the best operating system ever to be released by Microsoft and Snow Leopard the biggest ball of fluff by Apple, I’d say it would be common sense to nurture the relationship with your product’s greatest fans, wouldn’t you? Instead RJ prefers fine wine.

Sure, one can argue that the internet does not reach much of their target market. If you’re a garden gnome. Tell me, how many articles was written about Apple in the last 12 months in traditional media? This many? I doubt it. What makes it even more significant is that this is unpaid word of mouth marketing. Yes, RJ, unlike you, we don’t get paid to write. When we say something about Apple it is an honest opinion. Thing is, our words carries a lot more weight with some of our readers and friends than your paid writings ever will. EVER. Should I say it again just for extra effect? Okay. EVER!

RJ, here is the best advice you’ll ever get for free:

Put on a pointy red hat, a fake beard and register under the name Fizzcrank Fullthrottle for UCT GSB’s Nomadic Marketing course. It may be worth much more than your MBA in the long run.