Apple - because you want it

[andrewducker]

The Apple iProduct

bohemiancoast - I'm looking at you...

Comments

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Well. Someone's angry.

::giggle::

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I think bohemiancoast will appreciate the humour, even as she totally disagrees and points out how the Apple stuff is beautifully designed, easy to use and worth all the extra money ... particularly now that they have cheaper versions of some of their products (finally!) to entrap those of us that were safe before (because of the high prices)

Stella Artois is reassuringly expensive ... so are BMW and Mercedes ... the same is true of Apple products ... or so she'll say! :-)

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Heh heh.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

I can say a few choice things about Linux zealots as well.

I guess they are just jealous of our stock price.

[allorin.livejournal.com]

Heh - I like it.

Re: ::giggle::

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Yes, the ad's exactly right for me; I am that target audience.

I would happily pay more for a product to get the Apple brand, because I know I'm going to get ease of use and great UI, and my time is valuable to me. I'm also assured of excellent integration -- as soon as you move away from Apple hardware and software, the integration slips (though the way that Mac OS X services work is that it's easy for developers to include functionality that will automatically work from within any other Cocoa (native OS X) program).

I love the design values too, but that's not such an overriding consideration.

In lots of cases, though, it's not even any extra money. Remember, how I got hooked in the first place was that we wanted to do video editing on our PC, and after investigating solutions for our current PC, realised we'd need a new one -- and when we looked at options for a new PC, we discovered we could buy an iMac for less money that would do just what we wanted out of the box with no configuring, no having to buy extra software and hardware. (This is 3 years ago now; PCs have caught up a bit on this front).