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Originally Posted by rainwatcher
Those people who queued for days to buy the latest fad from Apple/Mac/iPod etc. in another realm would be called obsessive fanatics. I just think they were foolish people with more money than sense; the target audience for Jobs.
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A little ridiculous I suspect. People do love their gadgets, and those who really appreciate the design aspect of a good product are called "fanatics"? Whatever
When and why does a love of something make you a "fanatic"? If you don't have an eye for beautifully-designed things then maybe you're simply unqualified to judge others who do. You seem to be calling many millions of people foolish - maybe you should get over your ingrained gripes and have a really good look at what they're going gaga about. Since when is boring and sensible the right thing to laud? Give me beautiful any day - I'm willing to pay for it because the beauty is often functional too, and deeper than a device's skin. Future generations of industrial design students will study what Apple have produced over time, and they certainly won't be looking at anything produced by Microsoft - there has never been anything ground-breaking from them, at all. I don't seem to be able to recall any time when Apple bothered to pinch any ideas from Microsoft..... whilst the opposite can't be denied.
The world isn't all about boringly functional beige boxes - and for that I'm very, very glad.
Oh yes, maybe read the book, and then come back and say you still don't understand why Apple are now the most successful tech company in history. That's the result of an awful, awful lot of dumb fanatics just like me who use their offerings in both our work and play.