1/ I wrote tech reviews for 27 years, so I know that civil criticism of reviews is fair. But it’s aggravating when the arrogant or ignorant claim a tech product isn’t up to “real work” or ”serious work” when what they mean is it’s not the right tool for *their* particular work.

2/ Every day, in the U.S. alone, tens of millions of people use consumer tech products like MacBook Airs, Chromebooks, iPads, and smartphones to do real work at real businesses and generate real money for themselves and their employers. Even if the IT department resisted it.

3/ Every day, huge amounts of “real” work is done on common, widely available “consumer” software like Google Docs & iMessage instead of older standbys or custom apps written for a company or industry. And there are people who either hate this trend or just don’t know better.