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Apple's slowly becoming a fashion company. I'm being only slightly facetious. I'm not an Apple hater despite saying that. If anything, I usually prefer Apple p
by nilkn 12y ago
Apple's slowly becoming a fashion company. I'm being only slightly facetious.
I'm not an Apple hater despite saying that. If anything, I usually prefer Apple products over the competitors, and I've used iMacs or Macbooks for years now. But, between the $17k gold Apple Watch and the recent updates to the Macbook Air and iPad lines, it seems clear to me where Tim Cook is taking the company. And I don't think Apple as a fashion company is even a bad thing, it's just a transformation that some will like and others will resent.
- lips 12y agoDitto, pretty much. Though I think it's not so much "fashion," with all of it's pure aesthetic implications, as I think it is an emphasis on visual polish, visceral satisfaction, vertical integration, and novelty - all at the expense of many things "power user" oriented. It's a path to expansion, buy-in, and pundit-fodder, and apparently a tremendous market cap. I've known for about 5 years that I have some variety of Linux in my future, it's just a matter of time. Though I will likely always have need for Adobe products professionally. And as regards the Finder, well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTFF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTFF My perspective: Apple IIe -> Mac -> IIcx -> PowerMac -> XP - OS X.
- digi_owl 12y agoCareful, there is a big undercurrent in the Linux ecosystem towards creating a OSX carbon copy...