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Steve Jobs has died. What effect, if any, will it have on Apple and the tech industry?
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I think a lot of people are missing out on the white elephant in the room.
There is a mentality in the English culture that we support the underdog but also to hate the people at the top.
Whether it is:
Jamie Oliver - why do people hate him I have no idea, the guy only cooks, tried to make our school children eat healthier and write cook books
Andy Murray - I know some people hate him because of his attitude? The guy plays Tennis for a living, not slaughter children ! these people have never met him !
Sebastian Vettel - Same as above, I remember reading the Top Gear thread after he was on it and some poster mention how he is actually a nice guy but "I still hate him". What?? He is just successful racing driver, you only ever see him on TV sitting in a F1 car all covered up in fireproof gear driving and doing post race interviews. Hate him for what?
Or Manchester United
You don't see people hate the guy always finish half way down the race. You don't see people hate a tennis player rank 125th in the world. nor do you hate Bristol City (unless you are a Bristol Rovers fan)
Where the American celebrate their successes, the English tries to take them down.
The same thing with Apple.
People didn't hate Apply back in the 90's, they were small fish, they hated Bill Gates instead for their monopolisation of the PC market. Now it is Apple's turn, (even thought they only actually have around quarter of the overall PC market in reality, and a smaller % in the smart phone market than Android.) People somehow knock Apple for reasons I cannot fathom, not on a logical level.
All they do is make products, if people like them, they buy them, if they don't, they won't.
People keep knocking their product on how it is not as good as others. Well, the real test really is come down to us as consumers isn't it? We like them, we buy them. If you don't like it, don't. Why keep banging on how it is rubbish compare to your Android at Apple users? Do you get a kick out of it?
There is a mentality in the English culture that we support the underdog but also to hate the people at the top.
Whether it is:
Jamie Oliver - why do people hate him I have no idea, the guy only cooks, tried to make our school children eat healthier and write cook books
Andy Murray - I know some people hate him because of his attitude? The guy plays Tennis for a living, not slaughter children ! these people have never met him !
Sebastian Vettel - Same as above, I remember reading the Top Gear thread after he was on it and some poster mention how he is actually a nice guy but "I still hate him". What?? He is just successful racing driver, you only ever see him on TV sitting in a F1 car all covered up in fireproof gear driving and doing post race interviews. Hate him for what?
Or Manchester United
You don't see people hate the guy always finish half way down the race. You don't see people hate a tennis player rank 125th in the world. nor do you hate Bristol City (unless you are a Bristol Rovers fan)
Where the American celebrate their successes, the English tries to take them down.
The same thing with Apple.
People didn't hate Apply back in the 90's, they were small fish, they hated Bill Gates instead for their monopolisation of the PC market. Now it is Apple's turn, (even thought they only actually have around quarter of the overall PC market in reality, and a smaller % in the smart phone market than Android.) People somehow knock Apple for reasons I cannot fathom, not on a logical level.
All they do is make products, if people like them, they buy them, if they don't, they won't.
People keep knocking their product on how it is not as good as others. Well, the real test really is come down to us as consumers isn't it? We like them, we buy them. If you don't like it, don't. Why keep banging on how it is rubbish compare to your Android at Apple users? Do you get a kick out of it?
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I hate Apple because of all the smug headed gits they've made, who think they're better than you because they own an Apple product despite knowing nothing about it or it's alternatives and yet spent a fortune buying it. I find it all cringe-worthy and embarrassing.
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Well i cant speka for everyone else but im not like that. i never liked apple even during the 90's as i thought their computers where pants and more difficult to use then windows 3.1.
i knock some of their products not because they are top, i knock them because they are not good products for my needs.
ANd who is knocking Vettell? Last i heard its Hamilon getting slagged off right left and centre
You do realise that is a tiny portion of users and the same happens with all tech.
You get the same with android, gfx cards, cars, everything.
This is true.
There's ******** in every technology circle. You should try spending time dealing with a large majority of Linux users. Smug elitism at it's finest. The worst of the bunch are the people who think Linux is a philosophical and political lifestyle choice (Protip: It's not. It's a kernel. That's it.)
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I'm Here!
Change the word Apple to most technology products.
It just gets to you because some of them might have a point (even though they don't know they are making it, or make it in a bad way).
It's the people you should take issue with, not the products, that's just stupid.
I don't really care.
Negative. The point is people don't keep buying them because they are necessarily brilliant but because they have been marketed well. It's like the joke McDonald's sketch where they state "we'd get you to eat your own **** if we marketed it.well enough ".
Or perhaps it could be both... nah, not a chance...
Did I buy one because of marketing, or because it was the only platform I could purchase movies and tv shows on and play them on a htpc as well.