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> ...will start to realise that people actually care about owning beautiful things. Thanks for speaking for _everyone_, but no. It's just most people are reall

> ...will start to realise that people actually care about owning beautiful things. Thanks for speaking for _everyone_, but no. It's just most people are really superficial. The end. Hardware manufacturers need to be as superficial in order to compete with Apple, however, part of me thinks that it will just turn consumer computing into a boring homogeneous set of devices across all manufacturers.

2muchcoffeeman 14y ago
'superficial' is not the right word for what Apple does. An Apple machine is really very utilitarian and simple. It's a box with rounded corners and tapered edges. Pop off the screws and the case itself provides the structure for the machine. No extra structural support. The bulk of the material is also recyclable. If you look at other computers, especially before the brushed aluminium trend, it was everyone else that had fancy sculpting on their enclosures, the keyboards, fancy personalisations. Just look at the machines linked. And they all needed extra stuff on the inside to provide a skeleton. Apple machines certainly look good (why do we think grey boxes with round corners and tapered edges look good?), but they have also thought about manufacturing, engineering, materials, disposal etc ...
ImprovedSilence 14y ago
'part of me thinks that it will just turn consumer computing into a boring homogeneous set of devices across all manufacturers.' Isn't that where the PC world is now?
- WayneDB 14y ago
  Hardly. None of the following look very similar to each other. - http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/aspire-timelinex http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/aspire-timelinex - http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-l702x/pd http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-l702x/pd - http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=8198552921644852023 http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisp... - http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/ http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/
  - WayneDB 14y ago
    How about rebuttal instead of a downvote?

2muchcoffeeman 14y ago

'superficial' is not the right word for what Apple does. An Apple machine is really very utilitarian and simple. It's a box with rounded corners and tapered edges. Pop off the screws and the case itself provides the structure for the machine. No extra structural support. The bulk of the material is also recyclable. If you look at other computers, especially before the brushed aluminium trend, it was everyone else that had fancy sculpting on their enclosures, the keyboards, fancy personalisations. Just look at the machines linked. And they all needed extra stuff on the inside to provide a skeleton. Apple machines certainly look good (why do we think grey boxes with round corners and tapered edges look good?), but they have also thought about manufacturing, engineering, materials, disposal etc ...

ImprovedSilence 14y ago

'part of me thinks that it will just turn consumer computing into a boring homogeneous set of devices across all manufacturers.' Isn't that where the PC world is now?

WayneDB 14y ago
Hardly. None of the following look very similar to each other. - http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/aspire-timelinex http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/series/aspire-timelinex - http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-l702x/pd http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-l702x/pd - http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=8198552921644852023 http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisp... - http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/ http://usa.asus.com/Notebooks/
- WayneDB 14y ago
  How about rebuttal instead of a downvote?