I'd amazed by how much people support one of the richest companies in the world get richer off the backs of others. After all, it isn't like they are hurting for money.
I'd amazed by how much people support one of the richest companies in the world get richer off the backs of others. After all, it isn't like they are hurting for money.
Apple is getting rich by making extremely good stuff. I support them getting richer because I want them to continue making really good stuff I enjoy using. Because I can't trust any other company in the world to do that hard work.
Let me show you something:
2001:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2001/10/4754...
2007:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9414/palm-treo-755p-revie...
One month later:
http://ipod.about.com/od/iphoneproductreviews/fr/iphone_revi...
Fucking science fiction. Consumer wireless devices were dull, stodgy things until Apple came in and said "fuck you, this sucks" and did it better. Innovation was putting an ugly resistive color screen into the clunky enclosures from six years earlier. Spicy.
2003:
http://www.tabletpc2.com/Acer.htm (Owned one of these)
2010:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2904
Three months later:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
Hey, that looks familiar, where have I seen that before? Oh, right, in science fiction.
But then again, I buy a MacBook Pro instead of a junky plastic laptop. I'll pay a premium for quality, so will another chunk of the market and everyone else can fight over the Wal-Mart segment.
I personally think Netflix/Amazon/Spotify are doing science fiction too (every movie and song ever made, at your fingertips in a second!) and I would like them to survive too.