I have to call this one like I see it and Gina is way off base, or niche market demographic.
What about people who have had both and buy apple products bc, well they think it is a superor product?
I F U C K I N G loathe that smug fuck who plays “apple” on their latest string of anthropomorphic adverts.
I also am typing this from a new iPhone and have my apple product portable computer on a coffee table.
I also tuck my shirt in and have a propensity to make fun of guys who put gel in their hair and I don’t want to be relegated in to some colloidal group bc I like computers that don’t crash ands phones I can bitch to ya’ll digi-folks from.
Like the old county song, “don’t fence me in…”
, esp bc of the choice of my laptop and cell pickle.
DHK=’s not part a “alternate community” from his tech. The fact that he sacrafices doodlebugs and snails on the ashes of burnt world currency to appease the invisible hand economic forces, well ain’t gonna argue w u there, weren’t too many of us folk at the convention last year.
gina:
“Apple, through its marketing and visual design techniques, is manufacturing an illusion that merely buying an Apple makes you part of an alternative community. But the technology they use is explicitly chosen to divide people into separate digital cells, and to position Apple as sole warden. When your business depends on people paying for the privilege of being locked up, the prison better look and feel luxurious, and the bars better not be too visible.”I read this last Friday morning. By the end of Friday, having seen the way that Apple and mobile networks around the world had - through the restrictions they placed on consumers - managed to piss off a lot of people, I could see the FSF’s point. Read the whole thing.
