Soooo happens. I bought an iPod touch from my best friend. He said that it wouldn’t connect to the internet and that the store wasn’t able to fix it, (Still played music so, meh). I brought it to the same store and they hooked it up, upgraded it, put on a bunch of interesting apps, made sure it would connect to WiFi, set the date & time… Boobies FTW!
Well it’s all standardised and the product lines are completely linear, so it removes the need to think and make decisions on purchases.. you just buy the latest apple product does [desired function] and hey presto… who needs to actually know about things when you can just buy the latest in a linear line? 🙂
Pretty much the entire apple business model “Make one of everything, tightly control it so people can’t get confused with specifics, and market a ‘i-[brand]’ as something entirely unique that provides unique features only a ‘i-[brand]’ can provide… it’s not a smart phone or a laptop, or a tablet… it’s a ‘i-product’, completely different things and no one else can provide a i-product!
The fact that it seems people often prefer to have making decisions done for them seems to work very well for apple as a whole.
IMO it’s also the entire premise of the genius bar… it’s where you go to be told what’s going to happen and how it’s going to be, bypassing the need to go finding information yourself and making decisions on what the best course of action is from an informed stand point.
Or don’t buy apple..
Soooo happens. I bought an iPod touch from my best friend. He said that it wouldn’t connect to the internet and that the store wasn’t able to fix it, (Still played music so, meh). I brought it to the same store and they hooked it up, upgraded it, put on a bunch of interesting apps, made sure it would connect to WiFi, set the date & time… Boobies FTW!
Why bother buying Apple anyway ?
Well it’s all standardised and the product lines are completely linear, so it removes the need to think and make decisions on purchases.. you just buy the latest apple product does [desired function] and hey presto… who needs to actually know about things when you can just buy the latest in a linear line? 🙂
Pretty much the entire apple business model “Make one of everything, tightly control it so people can’t get confused with specifics, and market a ‘i-[brand]’ as something entirely unique that provides unique features only a ‘i-[brand]’ can provide… it’s not a smart phone or a laptop, or a tablet… it’s a ‘i-product’, completely different things and no one else can provide a i-product!
The fact that it seems people often prefer to have making decisions done for them seems to work very well for apple as a whole.
IMO it’s also the entire premise of the genius bar… it’s where you go to be told what’s going to happen and how it’s going to be, bypassing the need to go finding information yourself and making decisions on what the best course of action is from an informed stand point.
Walid, dont ask something u know is gonna make some apple lover answer with a bunch of unnecessary text…