I wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph this week in which I talked about a crucial aspect of Apple’s appeal: the way good old Steve Jobs relieves us of the burden of installation and other tedious tasks by making his designers and engineers do the intermediary work for us. No Protestant work ethic for straight-out-of-the-box iPad users! We leave that to PC customers, who peruse their tiny-print instruction manuals as intently as Calvinists poring over their well-thumbed Bibles. And that rang a bell”¦
Back in 1994, Umberto Eco declared that Mac was Catholic and the intimidating MS-DOS operating system was Protestant….
Good Episcopalians, of course, will jailbreak their iPads so that they can install anything that they want – particularly apps already rejected by the iTunes Store.
Good heavens! My Anglican priest is a Mac and a Calvin fan – what does that mean for him? 😉
that makes sense, both the Mac and the Catholic Church ward off viruses (which can take the form of flimsy theology) better than PC/Protestant.
I am Catholic and we own 3 Macs, 2 iPhones, and an iPad… Hmmmm…
Anglicans don’t use Ubuntu?
No, Anglicans use iNDABA!
Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu, indaba, daba, doo.