All right, roll out the big guns: yesterday we reported
on Dave Kearns' remarkably
misleading column for Network World in which he makes
fun of Apple's "switcher" commercials because he thinks the
only PC people who would change to Macs are brainless
jellyfish who can't maintain their PCs or don't have the
sense to hire an IT guru. What's worse, he betrays
astonishing ignorance about what Macs can do and in effect
tells his readers not to believe the ads.
This is the paragraph that set off alarms for several
Applelinks readers:
"There's Janie Porche, the young woman who saved
Christmas. It seems her poor dad needed to spend hours
downloading drivers for his new digital camera (evidently
her dad is still connected to the 'Net at 300 baud).
Porche just "put a cord" between the camera and her
Powerbook, and it automatically downloaded all the
pictures. Imagine that - I wonder which brand of camera
THAT was!"
Our interpretation of the last sentence is that Kearns
doesn't think this is possible. Interestingly, a faithful
reader just emailed us this anecdote that ought to give our
Network World "guru" fits:
"Just yesterday, an employee came to me w/ a
borrowed digtal cam wanting to download the pictures. I
can't even remember what brand it was. I took it, removed
the USB cable from my flatscreen iMac to the printer,
plugged it into the camera and BOOM... the camera drive
was on my desktop. From there it was a simple click and
drag to a new folder.
I was nervous, because I knew I had no drivers for any
cameras nor media memory cards. I've been a Mac user
since '84 and even I was impressed."
For the record, the flat-panel iMac was running OS 9.2
and the camera was an Olympus D370. "BOOM!"
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