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Are you iPhone users also Mac users?

2004 - used Macs (iBooks) for the first time and loved them - but had a new Dell desktop

2006 - bought an iPod

2007 - bought my current MacBook

2010 - bought iPhone 4

I think I'm in the minority, but I am actually surprised that more non-Mac using iPhone owners haven't switched. After playing around with many different smart phones, had I not already been a Mac user the iPhone OS would have really made me look at Macs.
 
I have a boatload of microsoft certifications dating back 15 years and only used pcs or linux.

About a year ago i bought my wife an iphone 3g used for fifty bucks.

Last December i wanted to get rid of all the 6 year old pcs in the house. I decided on just getting one new computer. I went to walmart and had picked out a dell windows 7 computer for 800 bucks. When i got into the checkout line with it i had a panic attack over having to still fix god knows what on it every night when i get home from fix god knows what in enterprise computing land. Tired of dealing with the spyware and viruses.

I put the thing down and when to the mac store and bought an imac. I figured heck my wifes phone works so damned good surely apples computers will work just as good right?

Since then i have bought myself an ipod touch and an ipad.

Since i went mac in my house i havent had to fix one thing or explain anything on how to use it to my wife or my 17 year old or my 4 year old. Not once.

I paid 400 more dollars and change for that imac. Was it worth it? Every freaking penny.
 
I bought a Mac because of my very first iPhone three years ago.

I was so impressed with how the very first iPhone worked that I bought a 15" MBP a week later. I've been using Macs ever since.
 
Bought the original iPhone is February of 2008, then the 3G, then the 3GS, then i bought my 27" iMac last year and now I have the iPhone 4.
 
iPhone turned me into a Mac user. Bought my MacBook in February and love it. Still know very little about how to maximize it's potential but love what I know.

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My conversion to a Mac is what made me get an iPhone. I slowly got tired of windows and pc problems and made the jump so when verizon did the same and I had none stop issues with blackberry after blackberry I jumped ship. People trash AT&T but I have yet to have a single issue with call quality or customer service. Both have been great since I went to AT&T.
 
I used Macs for years at school, got an iPhone on June 29th, 2007, and got my first Mac, a MBP, in March 2008.

Before that, I was quite the PC. At the start of middle school in 1996 I had a Packard Bell 75mhz pentium on Win 95. Then I got an old laptop in Highschool that was a 150mhz Pentium on Win2k. Then I built a 1.9ghz Pentium 4 desktop in late 2001, built an overclocked 4ghz Pentium 4 in I think early 2004, then bought a Dell Inspiron laptop with a 2ghz Pentium M in late 2005 right before I went back to college. For years I had problems with viruses and needing to replace faulty hardware or other problems with Windows that would corrupt my files. One time I even had some guys from the IT dept show up in my dorm to confiscate my infected laptop. I had the latest antivirus and firewall software. My roomate at the time had a 12" PowerBook G4. He never had any problems! I was so jealous! After using macs more and more in class, I realized they just click with me. They're also great for artists. So I saved up and bought my first Mac and haven't looked back since. I've had a couple minor problems over the years, like waking up from sleep mode, or when changing file names I couldn't use the F key for awhile, but other than that, I couldn't ever see going back to the way things were before. It's nice to not have to work on my computer every week, but rather work with it to do the things I love!

Now I've owned every iPhone. The iPhone helped pull me over to the Mac side. I love it, but feel like Apple has messed up some with the iPhone 4. As for my next Mac, Intel's roadmap shows quad-core mobile processors arriving around the beginning of next year. I'm going to upgrade during the summer 2011, so I can get a bonus iPod Touch for my wife, who is still using my aging iPhone 1 as an iPod Touch. They will probably have 3rd gen Touches for free. Good enough for full iOS4 features like multitasking.

Overall, while my experience with Apple, iPhones, MacBook Pros and all the accessories hasn't been perfect, it's a whole lot better than the way things were before.
 
After years of going from PC to PC (usually d(h)ells) I made the switch to Mac and I am glad I did. I found that every dell I owned lasted right at 3 years. Not sure why that was the magic number, but sure enough, just like clock-work they would die right at the 3 year mark. And these were not el-cheapo's either. I opted for "the high end xps" models in hopes they would get better. I used these all throughout college and law school primarily because that was the "industry standard." Few classmates of mine used Mac's and, admittedly, I thought they were a bit strange. When I left the world of academia last year I was curious about this craze everyone was talking about. (The onslaught of commercials fueled the fire as well). I quickly took notice of the premium Apple placed on their hardware. There was no "plasticky" feel to them. I purchased my first Macbook Pro about 3 months ago when the refresh happened. Best computer purchase I believe I have made. It made perfect sense (being a former PC guy) that I proudly toted my Google Nexus One. All the while, I kept a watchful eye on this site and all the build-up surrounding the iPhone 4. Tomorrow I will receive that device and although I am aware of all the hoopla with design defects, etc., I am excited for my MBP and iPhone 4 to work together. It was time for a change.
 
Been a mac user since 1993. iPods and iPhones were natural choices for me not because they were Apple but because they just worked so well in my workflow. I've tried syncing Palm Pilots and other mp3 players and it was a nightmare.
 
I was a lifelong windows user until I got my iPhone 3G (my first iPhone).

A year after that I bought a MacBook Pro.
 
First Apple product was the monochrome U2 iPod back in 2005. Then an iBook G4 later that year. Had previously used Macs for school, but my former career was PC only for around 12 years after college graduation.

Then I got a white iPod with video 5G in 2006; a white MacBook in 2007, followed by the iPhone the same year. I've been beyond lucky to have every iPhone released so far.

Got a 13" MacBook Pro late 2009. Sold it about a month or so ago as work bought me a 15" MacBook Pro Core i5. Still have an old custom PeeCee I built in 2004 in my basement that works.

For my job I still use a PeeCee everyday, either in Remote Desktop Connection or a virtual machine. I like both Windows and Mac OSX...but if given a choice, I'd use OSX every time.
 
Zaft said:
OSX is a great OS but im just too used to windows.
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I used windows for 15 years and was very used to it as well.

A visit to the apple store showed me the light and I was willing to sacrifice the comfort of using a machine i'm familiar with. OSX is very east to use. It took me maybe 2 weeks max to get used to it.

Every now and then I pull out my pc and I hate using it now. It feels very clunky.
 
beyondthesmile said:
Just curious. Are most of you iPhone users also Mac users?

I'm a (new) iPhone user... but don't see myself switching from a PC anytime in the near future.
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After a few months of using your iPhone it is possible that you will start to become very curious about OSX. You will love the smooth, user friendly, eye appealing, mostly trouble free operating system and interface of your iPhone and start to wonder if the OSX experience is on par, and it is.

Or you might not. But that is how a lot of iPhone users become mac users. If you love the experience on your iPhone, why not give OSX a shot?
 
I went Mac -> iPod -> iPhone but I think it's the reverse for most Apple customers.

I've since grown to like both but having the devices work well with the Mac was the largest part of my initial decision to get the iPhone/iPod.
 
I've had iPods since the original. Only reason I bought an original iPhone was because my Moto Razr had fell out of my pocket while cruising around with the good ole crotch rocket. (I had to travel around my circuit for hours looking for the phone. The SIM had some... incrimination photos of my girlfriend at the time :rolleyes:) Ordered a new iPhone from AT&T and fell inlove with it. Bought a 3G when it came out. About a year later it was computer upgrade time and I went for the iMac 24" and I've never looked back.

Soon to be an iPad owner as well along with a new Mac Book Pro if I can live with myself dropping a total of 3 grand at the Apple store on Wednesday.
 
I was a "PC guy" until Leopard came out. I made fun of Macs in every possible way until then. My friend, with a Mac, asked me to watch the guided tour of Leopard and then he would accept my opinion on Macs. I watched it. I now have a 24" iMac and plan of purchasing two new 27" models and a 15" MacBook Pro. Basically, Macs ARE as good as advertised.
 
Bought my first Mac in 2005, and once I realized the potential of iTunes (which I'd hated and pretty much ignored on my old PC) I bought a 5G iPod....when the iPhone was announced, at first I thought, "why would I want one of those things?" but by Launch Day I'd figured out just why. I'm definitely a Mac person now, love my Macs and my other Apple products! I would not go back to using Windows for anything!
 
Heh, I've been using Macintoshes since the 128k. Switched over to PC twice, once cause it was cheaper (and in a year jumped on a cheap Mac because well, I love computers and I guess I missed having a Mac and macs make me drool more than a PC) and once cause I wanted to play the newest flight sim (with the idea I'd only use it for that. It had XP which honestly is not that bad for Windows, it was much newer and faster than my Mac, I ended up with it as my sole computer). Went back to Macs not cause I really wanted a Mac, but because I wanted to add a cheap laptop but something kept making me want a Macbook more despite teh price difference. Ended up with a "new" one (one month old), and started using it instead of the PC (the hard drive on the PC was dieing and evnetually died and I didn't care).

My PC has been resurected again but this time I think it will remain only for certain software *shrug*. I already bought another Macbook Pro to replace my Macbook.

But... all that being said.. I scoffed at the first iphone. I scoffed at Apple making other stuff besides Macintoshes. I didn't want to become one of "them". I would claim I loved the computer but not the company. But the other stuff is just so good I ended up with both an ipod and eventually an iphone. And I love both.
 
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