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When I was a kid I worked with my father building custom cars. We customized a car for the guy who owned a famous brand of liquor. He had a vanity license plate
by oblib 6y ago
When I was a kid I worked with my father building custom cars. We customized a car for the guy who owned a famous brand of liquor. He had a vanity license plate on one of his cars that said something like "3 Stars" on it and I asked him what that stood for. He said it was less expensive brand of the liquor he sold and then he went on to say "it's the same as the expensive stuff and if you tell anyone that they'll call you a liar, but take it from me, it's the same stuff". And he was right. I did tell people and those who purchased his expensive brand flat out insisted I was wrong.
Apple can charge more because they always have and people will buy it because they believe it's better.
- hazz99 6y agoFrom my experience, the touchpad and OS experience is decidedly better. This is a subjective judgement, but anecdotally I've heard it from many people.
- oblib 6y agoWell, we're talking about hardware here, or at least I was. I love my late `09 Mac Mini. Best Mac I've owned yet, but for the same amount we'll pay for a new one we could probably build our own Linux box with much better specs.
- sircastor 6y agoYes, people believe it’s better. The liquor the man in your story sold (unless I’ve read this wrong) was literally the same as the expensive stuff. Apple’s always been in the experience game. And they’ve charged a premium for the experience, even though underneath the pieces were the same. Some people hate it and some people love it. This is another change to the experience. I think though that we’re finally beyond (excuse the expression) “Apples to Apples” comparison though. This hardware is literally not the same stuff - unless you’re down to you talking about NAND gates.
- jjtheblunt 6y agoMaybe some people buy more expensive Apple products after dependability problems with competitor products. (Happened to me with a brand new Sony Vaio and a Dell, for example.)
- oblib 6y agoWell, I've bought new Apple computers for over 20 years now and for the first 10 I had to replace them after a couple years because I couldn't run newer software on them but they were pretty much junk by the end of those few years. The late `09 Mac Mini I'm still using has been a real workhorse though. I upgraded the Ram and Hard Drive about 5 years ago and it's still very capable for what I do. To be fair, the DVD drive died after just a couple years on it though and I didn't really use it much. But I don't use Photoshop or almost any Apple software anymore (outside of the OS). I write code and I don't need much horsepower for that.