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Except "luxury" carries a very specific connotation around price and social status. This isn't a fur coat, a diamond ring, a Tiffany lamp or a gold plated ciga
by danilocampos 15y ago
Except "luxury" carries a very specific connotation around price and social status.
This isn't a fur coat, a diamond ring, a Tiffany lamp or a gold plated cigarette case.
This is a product that costs the same as its competitors. But is nonetheless better in almost every respect.
That's not a luxury brand. That's just a making better shit than everyone else brand.
- cageface 15y agoThat's true today but may not be for long. Compared to things like the new Honeycomb task switcher and the resizable widgets iOS is starting to look stale. iOS 5 is in many ways just catching up to where Android was a year ago.
- Groxx 15y agoAaah, you're claiming luxury requires artificial value inflation, especially due to being under-produced. I can see that, and it's a usable definition. Apologies for not catching it earlier. How many people subscribe to either of our uses of the term, I have no idea. But under that (or a similar) definition, you're entirely correct, Apple isn't luxury. Different only in the lack of (significant?) artificial inflation, and therefore less social prestige?