Tue Jul 28, 2020 8:31 am
#1786572
Back in the day, before the iMac design revolution of the late 1990s, it used to be widely said that Apple were "computers for people who don't do computers".
The same is largely true today.
When you pay the extra for an iPad or iPhone what you are paying for is an enormous and very expensive aesthetic design and marketing effort, not higher performance kit. It appears to perform well because Apple so tightly controls the software environment that no-one can do anything which might cause it to fall over. Android products fall over because people put all kinds of badly-written carp on them, and if you don't do that then they don't.
Apple's famous "just don't hold it like that" line runs right through everything they do, which is why their customers accept the overheat/shutdown-at-perfectly-normal-temperatures issue as a feature rather than a fault.
You pays your money and you takes your choice, but don't kid yourself that you're making a savvy choice to pay more money for a technically-better product. You're buying a badge, a lifestyle, a brand - just like they want you to.
If we're going with the lobster analogy, the Apple lobster requires you purge your stomach of all other food first, create a lobster account before eating, hold your lobster a certain way, keep it within a narrow temperature band and frankly it won't really taste right unless you're sat on an Apple chair at an Apple table, drinking Apple wine and talking to your Apple wife.
The same is largely true today.
When you pay the extra for an iPad or iPhone what you are paying for is an enormous and very expensive aesthetic design and marketing effort, not higher performance kit. It appears to perform well because Apple so tightly controls the software environment that no-one can do anything which might cause it to fall over. Android products fall over because people put all kinds of badly-written carp on them, and if you don't do that then they don't.
Apple's famous "just don't hold it like that" line runs right through everything they do, which is why their customers accept the overheat/shutdown-at-perfectly-normal-temperatures issue as a feature rather than a fault.
You pays your money and you takes your choice, but don't kid yourself that you're making a savvy choice to pay more money for a technically-better product. You're buying a badge, a lifestyle, a brand - just like they want you to.
If we're going with the lobster analogy, the Apple lobster requires you purge your stomach of all other food first, create a lobster account before eating, hold your lobster a certain way, keep it within a narrow temperature band and frankly it won't really taste right unless you're sat on an Apple chair at an Apple table, drinking Apple wine and talking to your Apple wife.
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