{"id":3315,"date":"2011-12-03T22:47:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T02:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2011-12-03T22:47:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T02:47:22","slug":"on-recommending-technology-to-friends-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/on-recommending-technology-to-friends-family\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 On Recommending Technology to Friends & Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marco Arment:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Previous-me tried to persuade everyone to switch to my setup, but I now know that it\u2019s not worth the effort. I\u2019ll never know someone else\u2019s requirements, environment, or priorities as well as they do. I don\u2019t know shit about Windows or Outlook or architecture.You should use whatever works for you. And I no longer have the patience or hubris to convince you what that should be. All I can offer is one data point: what I use, and how it works for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am exactly the same way. I wasn’t always a passive person when it came to technology and I recommend many products here on my blog and via Twitter and get dozens of emails a month from people thanking me for the insight but I don’t recommend a product in person or directly. In fact, I’ve had a friend quote a recent blog post and ask the same question I already answered publicly and I automatically resort to, “buy what you want and what works for you.” and they call me out, “but you said last week that this product is the best.” Oh well.<\/p>\n

The issue I have is that I make a recommendation and suddenly I am the single point of contact for that product for that person. This happened a lot when I was at Apple and now that I work for another technology company. I don’t recommend the competition but I encourage friends to get the system that works best for them and I keep tech support numbers handy if they have any issues. It seems cold and selfish but if I were to offer tech support to everyone that needed a recommendation, I’d spend hours a day answering questions for friends.<\/p>\n

I don’t LOVE Apple products and I prefer Windows but I, like Marco appreciate that Apple’s system is more fun, reliable and trustworthy. You’re limited in what you can do but the experience is better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marco Arment: Previous-me tried to persuade everyone to switch to my setup, but I now know that it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Rt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":226,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/facebook-connect-solves-all-problems\/","url_meta":{"origin":3315,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Facebook Connect Solves All Problems [COMMENTS ARE BACK]","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to begin pissing everyone off by becoming a Facebook Connect Evangelist. 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