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Barry, I love situations like this. It shows an interesting side-effect of the gadget era that is as old as I can remember. Back in the mid 1980s the competitive spirit between the Commodore 64 owner and the Sinclair Spectrum owner was rife. During the 1990s it was between Atari ST and Amiga, then Sega and Nintendo, then Playstation and X-Box, Windows and Mac, iPhone and Blackberry, and so on. Gadgets seem to have the strange effect of driving us into a basic sort or primitive tribalism, perhaps as a way of justifying and defending our consumerist purchasing options, or to feel we "belong" to a club (or tribe). I am as guilty as anyone of it - I can't stand Microsoft and I defend Macs to the hilt and will only use Apple computers. I also only buy SONY electronics and have argued many times about their superiority over other brands. I think many brands rely on this "gadget tribalism" and actually market their goods on this basis, making them desirable in ways that appeal to a very old, rather than modern, quality in our brains.
It's always a fun debate and I enjoy competitiveness over gadgets. The "can it do this" and "can it do that" arguments are always great fun. I have an X-Box buddy (I'm a PS3 man myself) and some of the arguments we have over these gadgets are legendary!
