Comments on: Designers Are Geeky, Sort Of http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/05/designers-are-geeky-sort-of Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/05/designers-are-geeky-sort-of/comment-page-1#comment-46 Dan Sat, 05 May 2007 00:52:30 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2007/05/designers-are-geeky-sort-of#comment-46 Well, coming from the Mac community, I think there's a certain amount of the duality you describe. On the one hand, there's definitely an almost evangelical need to "spread the word" and convert your friends to the one true platform; at the same time, many have suggested that the Mac's relatively low marketshare may be one of the factors keeping it from becoming a major target by viruses, hackers, and malware (that debate continues to rage). As a community, we're often labeled as smug or arrogant, and there's certainly more than a little bit of that; there is something pleasing, or at the very least, ego-feeding, to think that you've made a superior choice to the "average drone." That said, I'm sure there are plenty of other factors that play into this as well. Well, coming from the Mac community, I think there’s a certain amount of the duality you describe. On the one hand, there’s definitely an almost evangelical need to “spread the word” and convert your friends to the one true platform; at the same time, many have suggested that the Mac’s relatively low marketshare may be one of the factors keeping it from becoming a major target by viruses, hackers, and malware (that debate continues to rage).

As a community, we’re often labeled as smug or arrogant, and there’s certainly more than a little bit of that; there is something pleasing, or at the very least, ego-feeding, to think that you’ve made a superior choice to the “average drone.” That said, I’m sure there are plenty of other factors that play into this as well.

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