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>Rather than the Apple watch being a Vogue-celebrated product for the 1%, it’s an attractive and high quality product for many people. I see it on the wrists fa
by hammock 5y ago
>Rather than the Apple watch being a Vogue-celebrated product for the 1%, it’s an attractive and high quality product for many people. I see it on the wrists fashion icons and on the wrists of people working at my local grocery store. Billionaires and ordinary people can have basically the same phone, watch, and AirPods. That is the true genius of Cook, reviving the “computer for the rest of us”.
Reminds me of that famous Andy Warhol quote from 1975:
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
- kingofspain 5y agoThe same is true of Bovril
- B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago> the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. That's possibly one of the best "fooling you while telling the truth" in print. Just think of the travel experience of the poorest consumers versus the richest. (The trick in the Coke thing is the petitio principii that you'd want to drink it.)
- astrange 5y agoTravel being cheap is good. You don't get on a plane for the experience of being on a plane, it's to get to the destination without losing time * money on the way. Rich people have higher security needs, which is one of the reasons they don't fly coach. Of course, sometimes they do get places a lot faster on private jets.