"Never mind the fact that the iPod turned the entire music industry on its head. Never mind the fact that most successful notebooks today resemble designs first popularized by Apple. Never mind the fact that the blueprint of the modern day smartphone remains the original iPhone. Never mind the fact that competitors are scrambling wildly to copy the success and design of the iPad. Forget all of these things, because when it comes to Apple, the 'what have you done for me lately?' mentality reigns supreme."
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Member since:2008-08-15
<Insert your obligatory "LOL, you mad, bro?" image here> Wow, let's count your contradictions and hypocrisies. Let's see:
1. You are upset that I passed judgement on you based on the content of your post, yet you do the same to a larger group consisting of tens of millions of different people (that you refer to as a 'herd', but on a much weaker criteria, such as the brand of their purchases).
2. You make sweeping generalizations regarding those tens of millions of people, yet you say that you yourself are a Mac owner -- thereby proving that your own generalization is wrong (Unless, of course, you are intending to say that you are one of the lucky enlightened ones).
3. You suggest that I am plucking a single sentence out of your post while ignoring the greater argument, yet the scenario I am actually criticizing actually took up the greater part of your post (Go ahead, quote it. Much of it had to do with your silly coffee shop scenario)
4. You accuse me of having the thinnest skin of anyone you've met on the Internet, yet you are the one that is getting all angry and resorting to "idiot" name calling and childish suggestions of "crawling back into a cave". All because I disagreed with you. (If you talked this way to the lady in the coffee shop, maybe she had reason to feel the way she did -- and it's not because you didn't have a Mac with you. Maybe that goes for all these other "mean" people as well.)
5. You suggest that I lack understanding of the English language, yet you are the one who dug yourself into these contradictions and hypocrisies and got entangled within them. Go ahead, re-read the posts. You wrote them.
Overall, your proposition that Apple only sells a lifestyle instead of products is weakly supported by simple generalizations. Sorry, but "All Apple owners I've met are mean to me and make me feel stupid" doesn't rank too high on the credibility scale. While it is true that marketing and a "lifestyle" element are contributing factors, you will find that to be true for most successfully mass produced products. In any case, the above contradictions speak for themselves.
Member since:2007-01-16
lol...look at you go. You should write a novel with all your great ideas!
Reading comprehension. You needs it. You've derailed the entire conversation from being about what I think Apple is...to whether or not I'm bashing people.
When you go back to school to get it...remember to figure out how to address the central theme or central idea of a topic and how to not pick things out of context.
Learn how to do these things...specifically picking one sentence out of an entire paragraph and missing the entire theme of the comment...and you'll be fine.
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Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.
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2007-01-16
I am a Mac owner you idiot...you're still ignoring the fact that now Apple products are more about lifestyle now instead of products. If you want to be cool, you have to own a Mac...otherwise you're not as cool. That's a fact...otherwise Apple wouldn't have been so successful.
I'm amused at your blatant disregard for addressing the actual topic of my comment instead of plucking one sentence out of the entire thought.
You have the thinnest skin of anyone I've ever met on the internet. You should crawl back into a cave where nothing bad can get you. You're picking out a single sentence and ignoring the entire thought of the paragraph. But hey, what you lack in the ability to understand the English language, you make up for in ass hattery.