Apple users are like mercedes owners????
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"I use Macs for the same reason I drive a Mercedes," Avary says. "It may be a bit more expensive, and a Ford Taurus will get you there the same, but I'm a whore for perfection in industrial design, and you can't beat Apple for ease of use and an elegant human interface." said Roger Avary movie writer/director"
"I use Macs for the same reason I drive a Mercedes," Avary says. "It may be a bit more expensive, and a Ford Taurus will get you there the same, but I'm a whore for perfection in industrial design, and you can't beat Apple for ease of use and an elegant human interface." said Roger Avary movie writer/director"
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/...=1081750591000
Do you feel the same..like a luxury car owner? Why do you use Apples?
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There's something to be said for paying more for quality. Almost every item of A/V equipment that I've ever purchased has been Sony. Why? Because I know I'll have few, if any problems outside of the standard wear and tear. I buy only Levi's jeans because I know they'll fit well and put up with me. Heck, I even buy the more expensive breads at the grocery store because I want more than just some preservative-pumped crap that has little real taste to it.
I don't want all that to be mistaken for buying a product for the name. I couldn't care less about all things Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, or sometimes even Bose -- I say "sometimes" because I DID buy a set of their small PC speakers once, but you won't see me buying anything Acoustimass.
My current car is a Hyundai Sonata (mostly because of it's low price to high feature ratio), but I'd like for my next car to be either a Volkswagen or some kind of hybrid. With both will come a more premium price, but also a better product. The latter being more environmentally friendly, as well.
Steve Jobs is talking about BMWs right now because Apple is currently forced by circumstance to be a premium niche vendor. But neither BMW nor Mercedes has been "the car for the rest of us" for as long as I can remember. Macintosh was, and it should be.
The idea that a well-designed product should be a privilege for the few to enjoy is frankly disgusting. Right now a select few have a personal computer that they don't have to worry about, while most people have a personal computer that requires a formal education in IT to manage properly. How backward is that?
I'd like to see the Mac become the computer for the rest of us again. I'd like as many people as possible to be able to use and trust their computer, and to spend less time patching and disinfecting and otherwise wasting their time because of some company's legacy of bad decisions, and the proclivity that a few filth have for exploiting those decisions.
If that means that I don't get to be in some select club, great. I'd be much happier to have my Mac in common with more people, to not have to be so careful about what file formats I can ship to whom, to be able to share tips and applications and files with more people freely. The increased application and peripheral support wouldn't be a bad thing either.
A Mac is not a Mercedes. If you must have a car metaphor, it's a line of well-built, thoughtfully designed, fun-to-drive cars, but there's nothing necessarily elite or pricey about them. In fact, exclusivity works against their stated reason for being.
I don't drive a Mercedes anyway, and probably never would. So I think it's a piss-poor analogy.
In fact, I'm quite certain I don't want to be ANYTHING like any of the Mercedes drivers I happen to know. You can take that in whatever way you want...
Originally posted by Amorph
But neither BMW nor Mercedes has been "the car for the rest of us" for as long as I can remember. Macintosh was, and it should be.
I'm old enough to remember when the Macintosh was touted as "the computer for the rest of us". It was a backlash against Big Blue IBM and it's corporate stoginess. The Mac was this user friendly machine that anyone could use.
But as warm and fuzzy as the slogan may have been, it's really rather ironic and prophetic. Not to drum up another price debate, but neither then or today, has the Mac really been priced or targeted at the masses.
Originally posted by satchmo
I'm old enough to remember when the Macintosh was touted as "the computer for the rest of us". It was a backlash against Big Blue IBM and it's corporate stoginess. The Mac was this user friendly machine that anyone could use.
But as warm and fuzzy as the slogan may have been, it's really rather ironic and prophetic. Not to drum up another price debate, but neither then or today, has the Mac really been priced or targeted at the masses.
Actually, it was priced reasonably relative to the IBM PC (and it was priced a lot higher than Steve wanted it to be - he wanted to sell the Mac for $999). Price didn't become a problem until the Phoenix reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS, and at that point the problem became that although PCs were far less capable, they were somewhat less expensive, and "IBM compatible" and thus a shoo-in for businesses.
Computers were expensive, period. They're cheaper now. I think the eMac that just came out is a significant step in the right direction.
heck, make it a diesel engine with manual transmission, and the analogy is complete! vastly more efficient, but harder to come by. diesel owners know there's a massive difference, and look on as the rest of the world suffers through skyrocketing regular gas prices due to external market influences.
just like mac users looking on at the windows crowd, applyin patch and virus updates daily to curb the rising tide of attacks on every computer from every other computer.
honestly, turn your nose up at the analogy all you want, but i think there is truth there.
I don't want to be in an elite club of snobby people who think they're better than anybody else because of the car they drive or computer they use. I just want to surround myself with quality products from companies that may charge a little more, but offer a better solution to what everyone else has.
I'd say -- if we're doing the car analogy -- that VWs are like that. Yes, they are a bit more expensive, but that extra cost goes into the extra care put into producing the end result. That doesn't mean that VW doesn't want everybody driving their cars, though.
And to those who dislike the car analogy overall, give us some other widely used product that we can use then. I think the car analogy isn't a bad one, personally.
Why do i use a mac? Because its more responsive, boots everytime and with a mac i dont feel the need to add a spoiler to the heatsink, install a minature air con device with flashing green and pink lights, cut a hole in the side of the case and pretend i'm in the film tron and install an lcd screen to tell me the fans have just increased their speed.
In Germany there is an expression that roughly translates to - A Mercedes in the garage but nothing on the table. (The Mercedes being expensive etc)
Anyway, Car/computer analogys are very bad. Most car technologies have been around for 100 years and very few 'breakthoughs' are seen today.
Dobby
Macs on the other hand, have something unique and superior to the competition (windows), it is called a proven stable and OPEN base, better interface, which windows is modeled after and better technologies, auqua, Quartz Extream, and so on.