Acevil said:
They mainly appeal to my age audience, 18-25. Sometimes slightly over. This audience buys anything apple will throw at them anything with 'i' in it. They reasoning sometimes is very silly, such as they are the best on the market, they are not evil microsoft, they don't get viruses when downloading illegal porn. So on and so on, nothing about the actual OS interface and how it helps them. |
I find it interesting how Apple is always seen as this great, magnaimous entity while Microsoft is seen as evil. Even though Gates is one of the most - if not THE most - charitable people in the world. Sure, MS did bad things, so did Apple, Sony, Nintendo etc.
People love to hate on the market leader, but MS doesn't lead everything. I am enjoying watching the XBox brand claw into the industry. Healthy competition is a good thing. And for those who say "MS has money to burn so it isn't fair," well, just look at Sony. Nintendo would never be able to sustain the losses that EITHER of those companies endured - look at Sega.
I don't dislike Apple, but I find their methods draconian, their OS heavy-handed, their PR snobbish and Steve Jobs to be no better (or worse) than Gates/Balmer in the ethics department. Apple OS is not for me. If others like it, so be it.
