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byrunyonave ( 1482739 ) writes:
Steve Jobs is the farmer and the current generation of fancy-clothed-hip-young-lifestyle people are his sheep.
i SERIOUSLY do not get what is so great about Apple products. All they do is take a pre-existing product, add gloss and make it look nice and the sheep come pouring in. What a stupid time we live in, Idiocracy is not far away.
BTW I'm not a M$ fan-boy, but I would take aMicrosoft product (or Linux) over Apple any day. Practicality over aesthetics I say.
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byDog-Cow ( 21281 ) writes:
Thank you for sharing your ignorance and stupidity. Slashdot was feeling a bit empty without them.
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byaussersterne ( 212916 ) writes:
They add a DAMN GOOD user interface. Which, at the end of the day, is what made the iPhone, the iPod, and Mac OS X.
And, as Linux, Windows, and the incredibly crowded universe of phones continually demonstrate, it's not easy to come up with a good user interface.
byalex4u2nv ( 869827 ) * writes:
I concur, but you have to admit: sheep drive the economy.
And if you're a farmer or wolf, you should appreciate the abundance of sheep.
That is why I will be diving into some apple apps development in 2010.
byabigor ( 540274 ) writes:
I just checked out your posting history - you aren't a very smart guy. I won't waste much time with a rebuttal, except to say that Unix programmers love OS X. I guess that makes us impractical sheep.
Nice use of "M$", by the way. I sure wish there was some kind of a Slashdot IQ test to keep cretins like you out.
bynEoN nOoDlE ( 27594 ) writes:
I'm pretty sick of the ridiculous assertion that anybody who buys a mac is a hipster. I'm a CG artist. I've been raised around computers since my parents bought me and my brother a commodore 64c. I bought Windows 95 the day that it came out. I install Ubuntu every major release and have used Windows 7 RC and every Windows that has come before it. For the past 2 years, though, my primary machine has been a Mac. For me, it's not about the aesthetics, but about the practicality. It works faster, and better. I'm a lot more productive on it and I actually enjoy using it a lot more than both Linux or Windows. When I use Windows at work and have to change some obscure network preference, it takes me a few minutes to find the hidden window inside the obscure preference panel. When I need to do the same thing on Mac OS, I can usually find what I need in 30 seconds. That's practicality. Hipsters might be the face behind Apple fanaticism but most of the people who I've convinced to buy Macs weren't hipsters but regular non-computer people who want a nice, easy, clean operating system that doesn't get bogged down with the bullshit that Windows does. My girlfriend bought a macbook last year and I haven't had to help her with it at all, meanwhile my neighbor's Windows XP machine has been destroyed by spyware and malware to an almost unusable state. That's practicality. If all Apple had to offer was a pretty way to minimize Windows, nobody would be interested. Ubuntu has better eye candy than Mac OS at this point. It's got flashy cube desktop switchers and transparent windows and a bunch of other flashy shit that people love seeing on YouTube [youtube.com] but then don't use because it's not practical.
I could even say the same thing about the iPhone. 3 years ago I only had a cell phone to make emergency calls and I rarely used it. Then the iPhone came out and I didn't want to join in on the hype so I bought a Palm Treo. The thing was absolute fucking garbage. It crashed 3 or 4 times a day and even after over 10 years of Palm OS being on the market, there wasn't a single application that I was interested in. The 3G came out and I decided to switch to iPhone. Now it's glued to my hand. It's changed the way I live my life. I need a restaurant nearby, I look to my iPhone. I want to look up something that we're talking about in everyday conversation, I check my iPhone. Yeah, other phones now have similar features, but Apple paved the way for it. Other smart phones focused on getting your e-mail to you wherever you are. Apple focused on getting the internet to you wherever you are. Now people constantly ask me to check my iPhone for some information. That's practicality. I don't give a shit that it looks pretty. It's a plus, but again, if all Apple could do was make a nice looking phone then they'd be out of business. No, they made a phone that's useful and that's why they've taken up half of the cell phone market-share. It's not just hipsters buying them.
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byAnonymous Coward writes:
"I'm pretty sick of the ridiculous assertion that anybody who buys a mac is a hipster. I'm a CG artist."
lol, the utter fail in those two sentences is immense.
Not a hipster... I'm an artist.
LOL.
Yes, you're exactly the type of person that the GP was talking about. The problem is, what he forgot to add, is that people like you don't even see it.
bynEoN nOoDlE ( 27594 ) writes:
So my profession dictates everything about me, huh? Every person in the computer graphics industry is a hipster, every programmer or IT guy is a nerd, every manager is a pointy headed idiot, right? What does that make anonymous internet trolls?
bymissing30 ( 676692 ) writes:
Not every one. But enough of them to make a comfortable generalization.
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byDraek ( 916851 ) writes:
Pity for Apple that regular non-computer users wanting a nice, easy, clean operating system are *such* a rarity outside the US, given their comparatively abysmal marketshare everywhere else.
Or, y'know, perhaps it *is* the marketing after all.
byintheshelter ( 906917 ) writes:
Seriously man, why bother trying to educate the hopeless. As a Mac and iPhone user I completely understand your point and wonder how the haters can be so blind, but you can't teach them to see. If he wants to remain blind then let him be blind. In the meantime we'll enjoy our well made, enjoyable to use, innovative Apple products and mirror the others who have made Apple number one in customer satisfaction in the market. You'd think that is a metric that even a hate-tard could make sense of, but they li
bythetoadwarrior ( 1268702 ) writes:
Because you don't look like a dork with a Mac on your desk compared to something that is a beige box or resembles some sort of redneck monster truck.
PC companies have got better at design but they're still lacking and they were completely awful in the past. Graphics cards are just as bad. The average consumer isn't all that keen on buying products that feature scantily clad CG women in leather and have names that you'd expect to find on some redneck monster truck.
Apple created something that looks fas
bysnowwrestler ( 896305 ) writes:
Maybe Apple's success is all marketing, but guess what, marketing is part of business too, and for the past decade Apple has been extremely good at business. This is not an engineering or originality award.
byClosedEyesSeeing ( 1278938 ) writes:
You talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.
byweston ( 16146 ) writes:
All they do is take a pre-existing product, add gloss and make it look nice and the sheep come pouring in. What a stupid time we live in, Idiocracy is not far away.
So in other words, if you don't understand what people find compelling about Apple's products, it's because everyone else who does is an idiot. Clearly, they've been deceived by marketing or distracted by gloss -- if they just really understood things, the way you do, nobody would buy, right?
Practicality over aesthetics I say.
As if this were a di
byOmniVector ( 569062 ) writes:
This is slashdot, so I'm not surprised you'd be unable to make a conclusion that requires you to think about things in a light other than white or black. I'll spell it out for you. What Apple's good at is not necessarily always coming up with an original idea, but at making an idea or feature actually easy to use. Let me repeat that, so you get it. They're good at making technology easy to use. Got it? What good is a device or application that has every feature you could imagine or want, yet no one under
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