Brian SD
Moderator
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2004
- Messages
- 9,492
- Reaction score
- 128
Why I Will Never Buy Another MacOriginally Posted by Tokyo Slim
Very well written article from a old-school Mac user that summarizes in its last couple pages the marketing culture that Apple has built up and encouraged in the Jobs era, and why it annoys the rest of us.
It's a shame that some people are so tied to their image and afraid of conforming that they won't use an operating system which they may find is more usable and functional. I agreed with some points in the article but it sounds like the writer has some pretty bad internal issues. It's not healthy to care *that much* about avoiding a trend, according to me.
So you honeslty think that marketing is the single only reason people buy Apple products? I guess you just haven't listened to even one of the billion explanations people have posted on this board about why they love em.Babar, I assume that you have choices other than iPod in Norway. If there is no advertizing at all, why do people buy them? To be honest, there are other DAP's out there that will last longer, cost less, sound better, have more options, and in my opinion, look better.
Okay, compare, say, Toyota, and BMW. Toyota is more affordable, more reliable, has all the functional capabilities of the BMW (except perhaps power), and gets better gas mileage.
So why do people spend the extra $10k to buy the BMW? Because of advertising alone? BMW does have some nice marketing, but I think its mostly because everything feels perfect about the BMW, from the way the doors sound when you shut them to the angle of the dashboard to the tone of orange on the dash functions, and that's not even to begin about the feel of the engine and the suspension. That's the way Apple products (in general) are to me. The click wheel is genius. The way the chrome back compliments the color on the front is great. There is more polish in OS X than there is in Windows. The computer designs are sleek and polished as well. It's a joy to turn on my PowerBook.