Developing on a Mac vs a PC

Marco Arment: "It's like a first-world/third-world kinda computer today."

Dan Benjamin: "Right! No, exactly!"

Marco Arment: "It's like if your instructions to someone, are like, 'Uh, how do I hook up this water filter?' Ok well first, you hook this up to your sink. And like, 'Well, I don't have a sink.'

Merlin Mann chuckling in the background.

Dan Benjamin: "Here's how to get this...right.."

Merlin Mann: "Let me get you a different pamphlet."

Dan Benjamin: "And you know Marco, that's an excellent point. It is a very very different world on the other side."

The best description I've heard, in years, about the differences and difficulties in developing open standards oriented web applications on a Macintosh vs a PC platform. You need to listen to the 5by5 Special #4: Kindacritial which aired yesterday.