I am on the market for a new computer. Actually, make that I might be; if I can't get my lazy rear assets to fix the broken desktop and laptop in the next few weeks. They have been broken since a good six months at least now. I need to make a confession at this point, I am a severe gear whore. I like to know what people are using, to the minutest of details. Be it computers, laptops, software, cameras, lenses, sports equipment my favorite players use, players my favorite brand (which is Slazenger by the way, for cricket) sponsors. The lot. To that end, I started following this site religiously since a year (maybe more). I was surprised to see so many mac users (actually just about everybody). Then I realized maybe the site interviews only mac users. I don't know.
As you may have guessed, the various i pads pods and phones are out of the scope of this post. I am particularly interested in knowing why people buy Apple computers. I understand macs were way ahead on the multimedia front, but PCs have closed the gap since. At least for photo editing, for video editing purposes the mac world still holds the edge. Then why are so many photographers still making the jump? After days of going through articles and posts where mac vs PC was debated ad nauseam, I paid a visit to an Apple store today. To me, macbook pros and mac airs just felt like ... computers. Computers, that will go obsolete. Actually, computers that are already obsolete compared to what I can buy outside. It's always been function over form for me, If I wanted something that would blow my mind off with it's looks I would have bought Scarlett Johansson. Never mind her clock speed.
I thought maybe it will take a week's proper usage for it to grow on me. If it's really so worth it, the finances will be arranged some how. I could always choose eating one less meal a day. So, I visited the Apple site. That, was the death knell. The last straw. It's just the way the products are presented, in the way the descriptions are worded. I beat a hasty retreat and directed my browser to more pleasant places on the internet. It's downright insulting to the human intellect. They're saying "hop on fellows we will take you for a ride" and people are willingly putting their hands up for that. As a last measure, Apple fanatics resort to "Apple did it first", to which I ask Ford built the first affordable car, are you still buying Fords only? The Apple product ownership idea lacks character, imagination. I have nothing against Apple users, you are all fantastic people. Just that I am not willing to join alongside you folks in this wonderful lunacy.
PS: I happily accept any Apple product as gifts though.
As you may have guessed, the various i pads pods and phones are out of the scope of this post. I am particularly interested in knowing why people buy Apple computers. I understand macs were way ahead on the multimedia front, but PCs have closed the gap since. At least for photo editing, for video editing purposes the mac world still holds the edge. Then why are so many photographers still making the jump? After days of going through articles and posts where mac vs PC was debated ad nauseam, I paid a visit to an Apple store today. To me, macbook pros and mac airs just felt like ... computers. Computers, that will go obsolete. Actually, computers that are already obsolete compared to what I can buy outside. It's always been function over form for me, If I wanted something that would blow my mind off with it's looks I would have bought Scarlett Johansson. Never mind her clock speed.
I thought maybe it will take a week's proper usage for it to grow on me. If it's really so worth it, the finances will be arranged some how. I could always choose eating one less meal a day. So, I visited the Apple site. That, was the death knell. The last straw. It's just the way the products are presented, in the way the descriptions are worded. I beat a hasty retreat and directed my browser to more pleasant places on the internet. It's downright insulting to the human intellect. They're saying "hop on fellows we will take you for a ride" and people are willingly putting their hands up for that. As a last measure, Apple fanatics resort to "Apple did it first", to which I ask Ford built the first affordable car, are you still buying Fords only? The Apple product ownership idea lacks character, imagination. I have nothing against Apple users, you are all fantastic people. Just that I am not willing to join alongside you folks in this wonderful lunacy.
PS: I happily accept any Apple product as gifts though.
4 comments:
Are you being antagonistic just for the heck of it :P
C'mon sell one of your "Lenses" and take a bite !
Dude, Even if I sell all my *current* lenses I won't be able to buy the entry level mac air!
But come on, just take a look at their website. The attitude is so turning off. So, is the attitude of their current customers nay followers. Can't turn into one.
*Rant cap on*
It's the Nokia analogy to phones that applies to Macs IMO.
Simple to use, sturdy design with a lot of metal used in the construction; and always with a rid-o-nculous price tag (Lumia 800 anyone?).
The jist of it being that very moneyed people and some with more money than time/intellect/both usually end up buying a Mac...
*Rant cap off*
And to think you and I both ended up with Lumia 800s d:
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