Re:Are MacBooks Just Trendy?
by yummyfajitas on Monday March 17, 2008 @12:39PM
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> they give their owners a warm fuzzy feeling you don't get from the junky pieces of plastic sold by creative, et al.
Warm fuzzy feelings turn into rage and hatred relatively quickly.
My girlfriend: "OMG, a cute engraved ipod! It's so pretty!"
Later: "I can't copy music from your macbook onto my ipod without nuking my music? But they are both apple! How come your cheap chinese knockoff ipod works better than the real thing?"
Re:Are MacBooks Just Trendy?
by allenbrunson on Monday March 17, 2008 @01:19PM
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yet it's apple that owns something like 80 percent of the portable music player market, rather than chinese knock-offs. go figure!
macbook does have bells and whistles and stability worth buying ... but not the ipods but it is so funny that macbooks doesn't have 80% market and ipod does ....
design wise it is always a good product - but feature wise ipods just cant copy - if u look around there are many mp3 that have good design and tons of features .... u dont need to be blind folded by marketing.
the same is true for apple's computers. it's not nearly as easy to switch computing platforms as it is to switch music players, or else macs would be even more popular than they are.