Ousted Mac Man Was Computer Illiterate!

Expose: Ousted Mac Man Was Computer Illiterate! -- New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer:

I'm honestly glad to see the guy go.
I understand that the Mac's make doing certain tasks easier thanks to software that comes with a new Mac purchase.
I and other PC users got a little turned off at the commercials that keeping plugging the fact that a Mac is the best thing since sliced bread.

Be it a Mac or a PC, it whats you do with the technology that counts.
That point gets lost in the multi-million dollar ad blitz.

"Was Justin Long -- the scruffy-faced Mac to John Hodgman's straitlaced PC in those ubiquitous Apple ads --— ousted from his role simply because, as Radar and Gawker suggested the other day, he was an annoying dweeb? Or was it because --— and make sure you're sitting down for this --— the human embodiment of cool computing actually didn't even know how to use one of the machines? Long made the confession at a party this summer. 'I know nothing about computers,' he said at the Strangers With Candy premiere in June. 'I get guys coming up to me saying, 'Dude, what makes you think you're better than PCs?' I don't even know where to begin! I know nothing about either. I'm computer illiterate.' Even worse, technology frightens him. 'It scares me that they control so much of the world. I'm not taking a high road about it. I'm just not smart enough to figure them out."