Normally I enjoy reading Mike Cane’s blog because I like his ranting style. He goes off on companies and products with absolutely no regard as to who they are or who their fan base might be, but rather how they make him feel when their products don’t work as advertised or when the user experience isn’t what he expected.

Although I tend to fondly think of him as the crusty curmudgeon in the neighborhood (the one that is fun to watch when he is jumping up and down in the front lawn cussing at the kids nearby), I like the fact that even when Mike is on a particular tear, he never seems to intentionally try to hurt or pick on a particular person.

Mike is opinionated, but he is not a bully…and I like that.

Yeah, yeah…Mike can be predictable when you start reading his posts: he loves the band Girls Don’t Cry (he’s even given them their own category on his site for goodness sakes), he is pretty darn disappointed with the Nokia 770 (and it looks like the N800 has let him down, too), he has ongoing issues with Palm (although he seems to like his LifeDrive 90% of the time), he is drooling over the upcoming iPhone, and even though he writes about tech on his blog – he is quick to say “Let’s get this straight once again: This is not a tech blog. I’m not looking to suck up to anyone, least of all any f*&@#g corporation, large or small.”

Oh yeah, and he cusses. A lot.

So anyway, Mike sent me a link this morning with his latest article, titled “Does Apple Hold the Key to Breaking Open Computing Everywhere?” This is more about what might happen if Apple were to release their rumored sub notebook computer, and I don’t want to spoil the surprise because it is a really good and thought-provoking article, but I do want to point out this interesting paragraph, where Mike said:

So something else is happening here. I think people connect with a MacBook — with Apple products in general — in a way they don’t, even can’t, connect with Windows notebooks or other non-Apple devices. I think that connection is emotional. And it’s not emotional in the way the Apple bashers believe it is: “Oh, look at him with his MacBook. He just thinks he’s so cool. If he wasn’t so concerned with appearing cool, he’d have a less-expensive Windows notebook. All really smart people do.” It’s not about the emotions of the user. It’s about the emotional content of the device itself.“

While I think I connect pretty darn well with my Tablet PC, I can understand what Mike is talking about because I have seen cult-of-Mac users in action…they all have the same spiked-Kool-Aid-eye-glaze that is noticeable from 20 feet. Okay, I’m teasing! Don’t send the hate mail! ha ha! ;-)

You can read Mike’s full article here. I’d love to hear what you think about it. :-)

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