Seven years of persuasion and at last: he buys a Mac!

Roine and I are constant missionaries for Apple’s products. That’s the way it has been since we bought our first Mac in April 1989. Since 2004 I have tried to make a person interested in buying a Mac. This man have thought of himself as a person who ”doesn’t understand computers”.
–That’s exactly why you should buy a Mac! have I persistent repeated.

Sometimes he has sat beside me at the office and watched my computer.
–Everything looks so cool in your computer! I have replied:
–Well, all you have to do is to get yourself a Mac you see…

At other times he has asked me to help him to perform something in his PC and I have stared with horror on his PC and said things like:
–I don’t understand PC! I get the shivers when everything looks so PC-like. Everything seems to get so complicated when it’s in a PC…
And then I have made brave attempts to help him. Most of the times I have succeeded, but not without a lot of searching and trying and sometimes I even had to get help myself.
–Please, why don’t you just buy a Mac? I’ve asked him.

In the beginning of this year we managed to convince him to buy an iPad for a certain activity, but then he didn’t really use it as much. But, this autumn he asked me to give him an iPad lesson. It so happened that the screen on his PC laptop got broken about the same time and a week later he came to me and said the magic words:
–I have decided to buy a Mac and an iPhone, can you help me?

At last! Hooray, hooray, hooray!

The Apple stuff got delivered last week. I have promised to give some Mac lessons but we still haven’t found the time for it. This man used to sigh a lot over his PC, but now he’s a happy man despite the fact that his iPhone was broke so that they had to deliver a new one to him.
–Before I used to get angry when something didn’t work in my computer, but now I think that this is a school that I have to go through, says the happy man.

He has asked me a couple of easy questions and every time he’s happy. Above all it seems like he thinks it’s fun to try and see if he can manage to find out how to do things all by himself.

He hasn’t yet had his Apple devices for a whole week, but I sense that his self confidence when it comes to using computers is about to grow. I think this is one more confirmation of that Apple’s user interface really is more intuitive and contains a pedagogy that boost the users confidence in stead of making him/her feel dumb. That’s why Apple’s devices becomes your friends.