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You say that like it's not something they should be proud of.
by fname 17y ago
You say that like it's not something they should be proud of.
- patio11 17y agoI personally don't think it is, but my opinion is irrelevant. More relevant is that Apple's brand image is that "We're elegant technology for discerning rich people like you. You deserve us because you're better than people who don't use Apple products." Low-brow stuff doesn't have a place in this brand image.
- patio11 17y agoIncidentally, I have previously said here that "Check this out dude my iPhone can fart. Your lame phone can't fart, can it?!" has helped to sell iPhones. Now that Apple doesn't need that any more, and wants to move a bit upmarket, they put me in the mind of my favorite lines from Shakespeare (part of Brutus' soliloquy in Act 2, Scene 1 of Tragedy of Julius Caesar): That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round. He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. So Caesar may. (Spoiler warning: Brutus' solution to this is to kill Caesar.)
- cakesy 17y agoI wish this was true, but they have sat on this for a long time.