While 99% of the blogeratti has just tattooed Powerbook Lust across their chest there are a few who are not so easily swayed by Apple lust and religious fervor. Here are two of my favorites (be sure to click the links to continue reading).
Thomas nails it, bull's-eye, flawless victory: "Hi, I'm Steve Jobs. Welcome everybody, to the San Francisco Macworld 2003 Keynote. Boy, do we have some cool stuff to show you todaaaay..."
But first, let me just repeat everything I said last year. There's super-cool iTools, and, there's the Switch ads, and, all the other stuff I told you about last year, too."
Jon's puzzled by the overwhelming blind reaction: "I'm all for new Apple products and the excitement that surrounds them around every Macworld event. However, I'm finding all the hype getting a little stale. I've talked to people that are already touting Safari to be the best browser they've ever used. Give me a break."
I'll add that Apple produces some really nice work, but I grow very more tired of Jobs and 1 Infinity Loop. It used to be that owning a Macintosh was something unique but now it seems the Church of 1 Infinite Loop keeps doubling it's congregation each year.
Who let these people in anyway? I mean is it just me or did Apple fever start growing worse since the iMac/iBook was introduced?
Join the fray by reading through and commenting at the end.
Marketing, I guess. Apple and Macintosh didn't become better as much as they became "new".
What I don't understand is how anyone with the least bit of self-respect can buy a Macintosh now and risc being thought of as one of those pathetic Switchers.
What message were Apple going for? "Are you inane, stupid, can't file stuff under windows, find two-button mice confusing? Get a Mac."
Mac users bamboozled onced again. Wiggens is absolutely right about iLife. Not being a Mac user, my first impression was "isn't this all their old stuff bundled with a little bit of integration thrown in?" As for Safari, who cares? It's a browser. If it weren't for Mozilla's tab-browsing, I wouldn't have a browser preference at all. And, Keynote is certainly no threat to PowerPoint. Most PowerPoint users are business users running Windows anyways. Greg, it sounds like your a sensible Mac user who doesn't follow blinding with the Cult of Mac but I'm confused by the fact that you want to keep switchers out. Don't you want Apple to break their 5% market share?
If almost everyone owned a BMW then Ford would be the exotic choice. When Apple starts to grow beyond 5% then it looses part of it's charm.
Steve Jobs for President 2004
Actually, I think that Greg has been on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride just one too many times.
Apple is amazing, they create desire. i have absolutely no use for a back lit, self adjusting, light sensitive keyboard, but i want one like nothing else in this world.
just think, i could blog from my deep dark closet if i really wanted to.
I have been on Pirates of the Caribbean 67 times in the last three years. If any ride is going to scramble the brain, it's gonna be the Tea Cups.
Greg - Your comment reminds me of a I knew guy in high school. He would never ever tell you what band he was listening to for fear that it will become popular one day. Jobs could stop making Macs altogether and Mac fans could create a charming Amiga-like community.
I don't have a true opinion either way about Apple. I don't own an Apple, thus, I don't care. I understand the cool-factor on a lot of their products, but that's as far as it goes. As for Safari = as a wanna-be web designer, it means another 'fudging' browser to test in. 'Fudgity' 'fudge' 'fudge'.
'F' word edited out. Bad Blake!
Dammit Blake! My mother reads these comments!
That wasn't me. It was my evil twin brother who owns a Mac.