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Some tech nerds are unable to empathize with normal people. From the perspective of the majority, their naming is less confusing not more confusing. This is wh

Some tech nerds are unable to empathize with normal people. From the perspective of the majority, their naming is less confusing not more confusing. This is why people love MacBook and loathe the Dell InspironXE E1795fpw-A

pbhjpbhj 14y ago
So you're saying that people loved their polycarbonate bubbling base Macbooks because Apple refused to print a model id on the bottom? I'm pretty sure that's factually incorrect. You think InspironXE users hate it because when they want more an fru or to access model specifid support they just look on the back and type in the code rather than having to have in depth knowledge of a companies development cycle?? Do you think car drivers hate that tyre makers print the id on the tyre enabling buying a replacement or that auction/sale sites can refer to specifc model numbers that act as a primary key on all the cars features? In your world presumably all coffee drinks in Starbucks would just be called 'coffee' because having names like latté and cappuccino is too confusing?
- forensic 14y ago
  I'd like a late-2011 venti skinny mocha chai latte please. I really don't give a shit what you prefer. Consumers want simplicity because technology is scary. Apple provides that by anthropomorphizing their products and Apple wins because of it. Apple does it on every front: naming, hardware design, software features, voice recognition, etc.
  - pbhjpbhj 14y ago
    Consumers want what Apple tell them to want. Consumers need for those things to be resaleable and repairable if they want the human race to efficienlty use the resources available on the planet. Apple don't care about all that they want to remove the ability to even refer to anything other than the latest bit of worker-exploiting high-fashion shiny-shiny that they insist you must have to be fulfilled.
    - forensic 14y ago
      So you agree with my original point then. Consumers feel choice to be a burden and want to be told what to do, think, like, and buy. Control is felt as a burden.

pbhjpbhj 14y ago

So you're saying that people loved their polycarbonate bubbling base Macbooks because Apple refused to print a model id on the bottom? I'm pretty sure that's factually incorrect. You think InspironXE users hate it because when they want more an fru or to access model specifid support they just look on the back and type in the code rather than having to have in depth knowledge of a companies development cycle?? Do you think car drivers hate that tyre makers print the id on the tyre enabling buying a replacement or that auction/sale sites can refer to specifc model numbers that act as a primary key on all the cars features? In your world presumably all coffee drinks in Starbucks would just be called 'coffee' because having names like latté and cappuccino is too confusing?

forensic 14y ago
I'd like a late-2011 venti skinny mocha chai latte please. I really don't give a shit what you prefer. Consumers want simplicity because technology is scary. Apple provides that by anthropomorphizing their products and Apple wins because of it. Apple does it on every front: naming, hardware design, software features, voice recognition, etc.
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  Consumers want what Apple tell them to want. Consumers need for those things to be resaleable and repairable if they want the human race to efficienlty use the resources available on the planet. Apple don't care about all that they want to remove the ability to even refer to anything other than the latest bit of worker-exploiting high-fashion shiny-shiny that they insist you must have to be fulfilled.
  - forensic 14y ago
    So you agree with my original point then. Consumers feel choice to be a burden and want to be told what to do, think, like, and buy. Control is felt as a burden.