Free Republic is Cool
If Steve Jobs were a 1% Republican,the liberal media would
be in a frenzy over the company’s use of slave labor in China.
Having an abysmally deficient vocabulary is apparently “cool.” It may even be “awesome.”
“Cool” is what OTHER people label something that they like. As a user, I couldn’t possibly care less what other people think about my car, my computer, my tablet, my phone, my home or my lawn mower.
I bought them for ME, not for your approval.
If you don’t like Apple, please do not buy anything made by Apple. If you don’t like Virgin Airlines, please fly someone else. I, and my fellow passengers won’t miss you a bit. Like everything else - you tend to get what you pay for.
Apple’s stuff is innovative and just works. The buying and services experiences are almost always good. There are generally no buggy first releases. Our house is full of Apple products. Who gives a rat’s patootie about “cool”? “Cool” is not a reason to buy anything.
Except Presidents, of course. There “cool” matters a whole lot, and we’ve got the “coolest” one on the entire planet.
No, I bought apple (again) at $250 a share because I thought it would go up (I was told I was wrong to think that)
Money quote:
‘Marcel Dansel argued that chasing cool is “...the central behavioural trait of teenagerhood” and this is the wish list born of extended adolescence.” ‘
Do you vote for an unqualified mulatto with an unknown background, because it’s cool?
It hasn’t been all that long ago Apple was considered Dead, not Cool. It’s one of the great come back stories in American business.
2. Virgin Atlantic introduced incredibly high levels of service, elegant use of space, and affordable luxury in the transatlantic market while lumbering unionized fossilariums like United and TWA were still flying dingy, boring and expensive airplanes that were out of date and falling apart. The most fabulous trip I ever had was in Virgin Upper Class after Air France overbooked me in Business Class and I demanded they find a business seat for me.
There, Free Marketeers of Free Republic. That's why people pay a premium for Apple and Virgin products: because the value is there.
People think value is cool, because you don't end up looking like a schmuck when you buy something like that.
And hipsters are all about image. The image you get from buying these products and services is that you're a smart person who may spend a fair amount of cash, but you get what you paid for, and maybe a bit more.
Maybe, just maybe, Steven Jobs and Richard Branson got that.
No I buy Apple because for me they’re the best products on the market. I love my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook, they just happen to be cool while being very highly effective.
As an engineer, I buy Apple because it works.
And works well.
If I want hobby ware, I’ll go back to Microsoft.
I buy Apple products because they best suit my needs, I fly whoever has the cheapest ticket at the times I want to go.
I do not need these thing to feel ‘cool’ either you are or you are not - I am.
I recently purchased a Nexus tablet. Very inexpensive, fast, and more than meets my needs. Is it cool? Who cares?
No, I buy Apple products (laptops only) because I find OS-X (and MacOS before it) to be superior in terms of stability and user-friendliness to any version of Windows. Were I in the market for a desktop computer I’d buy Apple for the same reasons.
At my office, where I had a choice of Windows or Ubuntu Linux, I chose Linux for the same reasons.
If I ever get a tablet or a smart-phone, I may or may not be willing to pay a premium for Apple’s very nice consumer product design (”coolness”), but certainly won’t if I’m convinced that an Android device offers superior stability and user-friendliness.
That's the reason a lot of the imbeciles in America voted for 0bama in '08!
Then I drove the Autobahn. In a Mercedes. And an Opal (same category). What were nigh unto imperceptible nuances at limited US speeds became apparent and valued when cruising at 100MPH (and vital at 140). Upon return home to "Speed Limit 55MPH", the Camry's inferior performance was glaringly obvious, even at those lower speeds.
I still have that Camry, several years later. I'd never begrudge someone wanting, buying, and enjoying a Beemer or the like; I appreciate the superior experience and value the difference, even if other Cretins don't.
Likewise, I don't quite understand why anyone would want to pay less than $2000 for a computer. Yeah you could, but...then you'd have to use it.
The Apple users often appear to be Cult driven.
One of our younger relative’s wife owns the latest I phone, Pad and a new Mac this year. She admits to be an Apple cult member.
When my HP died this spring after about 4-5 years of use, this woman told me to look into the Mac. I could have bought about 5 HPs like the one I bought for the price of the Mac. Since I don’t have a sugar daddy or sugar Mommy, I bought another HP computer.
My new HP has Windows 7 and Explorer 8, and it was working out of the box in minutes. It connected with my new HP printer with zero problems and with our Infinity/Comcast connection in seconds. It is as fast as I need. When I have used my relative’s Mac, I don’t see any difference in speed.
When this female relative visits and uses my new HP, she admits that she can’t see that it is slower than her Mac. Her 13 year old, the real computer expert, says that both work very well, and she prefers my HP keyboard over her mother’s Mac. This 13 year old IT, say that my old HPw2216h monitor works great.
The good thing about America, is if the 53% of us who pay taxes and keep the county going, can afford a Mac they have that option or my option to buy another HP and spend the differenc on nice vacations or another Hobie Kayak!