Comments on: L. Ron Jobs and the Millennials

By: Don Harvey

Don Harvey — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:51:45 +0000

Consider the lamers sitting at home ordering spare PC parts on e-bay. What’s that about? Steve Jobs does understand desire. He knows that half the people in line outside the Apple store are hoping to get laid before they hit the front door. This is why the Mac guy in the adds always looks so much happier.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:23:47 +0000

Truly Mac laptops are visible everywhere due to the good marketing gimmick of an illuminated and recognizable logo. To suggest that they have a significant share of the desktops outside of educational institutions and marketing/media concerns, well… you’re wrong. They’re not cost effective.

By: Zo

Zo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:43:51 +0000

Frank, I’m saying a well-designed machine that actually does just work is a constant pleasure to use. As is an desktop and file system that employs literal symbols, in which everything is findable and … I could go on. Mac laptops are everywhere in tech, everywhere. Nobody goes back. Things changed, with OS X … and are about to change again.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:27:44 +0000

Lexus seats are too hard.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:25:07 +0000

Had my hands on my first Mac at BofA in early ’84. It was okay, better than the Compaq luggable with the amber screen I’d been schlepping around. Came in the cutest little “MacPack” for easy transport. Worked fine with word processing software and spreadsheets. Mouse was a cool idea. Couldn’t tie into our networks though, so no email, no access to shared docs. Couldn’t read the floppies we wrote on non-Apple machines. Perfectly opaque OS.

Face it Zo. Apple provides status symbols for a select set of aficionados, a self identified in-crowd of upscale consumers. Why shop at Target when there’s a Nordstrom’s or a Niemann-Marcus in the neighborhood right?

Consider the lamers standing in line outside a retail store to buy a new phone or a tablet. What’s that about. Somebody said “Steve Jobs understands desire.” When does the realization hit that the seduction was great but basically you’ve just been screwed?

Taurus or Lexus? I’d rather drive a Maybach.

By: Zo

Zo — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:20:15 +0000

Frank, Which is more fun, easier, more pleasurable to drive, a Ford Taurus … or a Lexus. And if you haven’t done both, your answer doesn’t count.

And number two, why is it PC users cannot envision that Mac users might actually be onto something?

xoxo

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:09:35 +0000

I wish they’d used “different from…”

rather than “different than…”

While I get hopelessly tangled up in “lie, lay, laid, layed” and have to think hard to find the correct usage, I’ve somehow imprinted on the “different from” thing and “different than” is simply an irritant.

That wireless connection six miles high is pretty cool. Happy landings!

By: maria

maria — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:59:24 +0000

Though I am typing my comments on a MacBook Pro here, I am writing from mid-air, on a flight, where the napkins they gave me with my drink serve as an advertising platform for HTC, withe following pitch:

“You just ordered a drink. Maybe you ordered ginger ale, maybe it was orange juice. Point is,you wanted a drink made just for you. At HTC we get that, which is why we design phones just for you. Because you are different than the guy sitting next to you.”

Yea, I get the play on that “different,” I think.