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There's one in every Apple announcement thread.
by marknutter 11y ago
There's one in every Apple announcement thread.
- bigtunacan 11y agoOne what? It's unclear what you are trying to convey with this post.
- apetresc 11y agoOne person saying "They've finally jumped the shark this time, it's a totally useless device." And then at the next sales-record-breaking keynote, repeat.
- emp_zealoth 11y agoYou mean like with the watch gizmo? Or the tv gizmo? This is just overpriced toy, inferior to it's counterparts, but sure, it will sell, thanks to it's swag factor. (Outside of US of A and UK you only see apple stuff on very particular kind of people, the ones that gleefully spend 10x the money on a LV bag, just to rub it in other's faces. Having apple stuff is hip, nothing to do with any sort of usability) Eventually it will come crashing down
- billforsternz 11y agoI live in New Zealand, so not USA or UK. I often coffee at the local university, and sitting there surrounded by poor (but cool) students it is shocking how many of them are using Macbooks. Seriously, you hardly ever see a laptop without a huge glowing apple logo.
- TillE 11y agoIn Germany, I feel pretty out of place using an iPhone. It's all Android. And yet, basically all the nerds have Macbooks.
- adevine 11y agoOne that suggests that, because you personally don't love the Apple-announced product, that Apple is shit and "needs a wake up call". It's not THAT hard to see that a lot of people will like these products, and Apple will sell a shit-ton of them.
- dragonwriter 11y agoWell, in that case, the word "Apple" is really unnecessary. That's true in pretty much every product announcement thread.
- bdcravens 11y agoYes, but it seems that Apple tends to bring out the worst in people on both sides (fans and foes)
- happyscrappy 11y agoLove and hate are not equivalent. If you hate Apple you are here to troll.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Love and hate are not equivalent. No, but they are symmetric.
- happyscrappy 11y agoThe asymmetry is that haters are not really interested and just shit all over the discussion.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThat's not asymmetry. The lovers are also not really interested in discussion and are just as prone to pollute it with blind positivity as the haters are to do so with blind negativity.
- marknutter 11y agoThe other replies have summed up what I meant well, but I will add that a crucial component of a cynical Apple announcement day post is to preface it with a list of the number of Apple products one has bought in order to establish oneself as an unbiased authority on Apple products. Look back at every single Apple announcement and you'll realize Apple just takes tech that's already out in the marketplace and refines it. They never do what you expected them to do today, and never will.
- emp_zealoth 11y agoYou mean strips it off it's usability and charge more? Apple "dominance" is rather endemic, eventually there will be no reason to pay the 100% - 300% markup. Sure, the apple stores look nice, until you see what you actually get for the price