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So you'll meet someone at a Best Buy store, but snub them if they say "at Best Buy"? Or a Starbucks coffee shop is OK, but "at Starbucks" is not? I'm not unders
by function_seven 10y ago
So you'll meet someone at a Best Buy store, but snub them if they say "at Best Buy"? Or a Starbucks coffee shop is OK, but "at Starbucks" is not? I'm not understanding here.
- noonespecial 10y agoHe went overboard with the "never want to speak to you again" bit but he's not wrong. We say "at McDonalds" or "at Starbucks" because these places have a sort of casual ubiquity that's inserted them into our daily lives. We say "at the Apple store" because that's what feels right based its place in our daily experience. A marketing guy trying to goad us into giving the Apple store that same casual ubiquity without "earning" it just by dropping some leather couches and potted plants into a store is pretentious. It feels wrong and we know it in an uncanny valley sort of way.
- pbreit 10y agoI don't think you should be down voted but I think you're wrong. The comment is clearly aspirational and reasonable. To get all uppity (the op) about it is kinda ridiculous.
- WayneBro 10y agoUppity, like Apple? I don't think I can reach those heights. (Remember those Mac vs PC commercials? You can't get much more uppity than that.)