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It's a strange article for THIS audience, in that we are power users of technology. We don't buy the cheapest machines on the market - we tweak the best ones o
by mathattack 15y ago
It's a strange article for THIS audience, in that we are power users of technology. We don't buy the cheapest machines on the market - we tweak the best ones on the market.
That said, Apple is succeeding with folks less like us. Folks like our parents, who never heard of disk defragmenting. Uber-Cheap Windows machines do indeed fail this market. The buyers do get what they pay for, but it's also because they don't know better. Those folks are who this guy is writing for.
- yalimgerger 15y agoYes. Thank you. I think we the software developers need to see, evaluate tech products from a regular user perspective. As I mentioned in a comment above, no consumer accepts a bad experience just because he bought a cheap computer just like nobody accepts his private parts to be visible when he buys cheap pants. As far as the consumer is concerned he found a good deal.
- captain-asshat 15y agoAnd therein lies the problem. When people buy these awful computers it sends a message to the companies that there's a market for them. If they wanted to change their image they'd need to only compete with apple, which is a losing strategy in the short term. What would you do?
- yalimgerger 15y agoExcellent question. The answer deserves a blog post of its own. :-)