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It's a funny thing, this "Apple effect" -- and, love it or hate it, you have to have a little bit of respect for it. Shows how much brand matters. Not a lot of

• danieldk 15y ago
  Apple has better marketing, but it is also more consumer-driven than some of the competition. E.g. compare application sandboxing with the pain that is SELinux (for the average desktop user). In some other communities it's not well-understood that it's not just about feature checkboxing. It's about shaping features in such a manner that they are trivial to use. I do realize that to Apple-dislikers I am well under the spell of the reality distortion field ;).
  • shriphani 15y ago
    Oh my rant was not directed at Apple. OS X is the largest deployed unix client and brings a lot of stuff that powerusers used to normal consumers and making the leap from something like rsync -> time machine is very impressive. It is just that people who use a computer for nothing more than generic stuff like browsing / word-processing feel this need to defend their OS choice (while potentially using the exact applications which they used on their previous platform) with articles like this. Soon ASLR will become "the killer feature" and Apple will be declared the first to invent it and the Linux/Win fanboys will be pissed. This of course is the circle of life in the tech industry. One just needs to stand at a distance and enjoy.
• zemanel 15y ago
  [Most] consumers love Apple because [most] Apple products make them happy. Marketing doesn't make one happy.