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Re:Marc Newson to Join Apple’s Design Team by Igglyboo on Friday September 05, 2014 @06:39PM (#8276688)
Apple products:

1) are very pretty/trendy/fashionable

2) have a very high build quality(no cheap plastic, lots of aluminum)

3) "just work"

Honestly 2 and 3 are why I stick with them. After owning a mbp and iphone I can't go back to the crappy plastic that every piece of tech seems to be made out of these days, and I never have to worry about something not working on my phone or laptop like I had to with my countless android devices.

When I need to get work done I'll open up my vm or boot into ubuntu/fedora/etc. but other than that I don't need/care about endless customizability that android/linux offer me. I want something works and is easy to use.

Re:Marc Newson to Join Apple’s Design Team by boyaka on Friday September 05, 2014 @06:56PM (#8276735)
I agree with your 3 points but I would add one more that isn't positive:

4) designed to the limits of failure, low design quality/resilience