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If you think about Apple from the perspective of their customers, without bias toward iPhone developers, they still seem like cool people.
by dcurtis 16y ago
If you think about Apple from the perspective of their customers, without bias toward iPhone developers, they still seem like cool people.
- pg 16y agoI don't know. I think the locked-downness of the iPhone and iPad are probably noticeable to a lot of more sophisticated users too. These products are impressive, but they don't seem in any way like they're aimed at rebels or rule-breakers.
- seregine 16y agoThere are so many rules to break, and so few of them are made by Apple.
- delano 16y agoThe locked-downness is part of Apple's approach to entering the corporate market. Interestingly, this approach (consumer -> corporate) is precisely the opposite to RIM's approach with the Blackberry. It almost seems too crazy-bold to have been planned from the early days of the first ipods, but it does seem to be slowly working out.
- moe 16y agoThe locked-downness is part of Apple's approach to entering the corporate market. Huh? Since when does apple even exist in the corporate market? Last time I checked you'd not find many of them outside of design departments and hip startup offices.
- shadowsun7 16y agoTo be fair, Apple has moved towards the mass market. When you're mass market, and you're the industry leader in certain segments (say, phones) it becomes harder and harder to seem 'cool', or 'outsiderish' - especially since cool is related to how much of an outsider you're perceived to be.