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Why is apple so obsessed with making very thin things at the expense of power and features
“Yeah my computer doesnt have an hdmi, but at least it’s so thin and fragile that typing too hard could split the computer in half”
The sooner you acknowledge that Apple is a fashion company and not a technology company, everything else makes sense
That’s… not untrue. Look at this ad from 1998:
Note that they’re not talking about the power of the computer, how much storage it has, the size of the monitor, etc. etc. It’s “Everyone has e-mail now. You should have e-mail. It’s a BIG PARTY and you should be involved.”
Goldblum did a lot of these commercials. Here’s another:
Again, it’s about the LOOKS of the computer.
Another. (Actually two)
The first one kind of pisses me off, because it’s bullshit. There are eight cables on the PC they showed. The iMac removes three of them– the speaker out, and the two that connect power and signal to the monitor. The fourth? A printer, which isn’t present on the iMac. And there are more cables shown in that tangle than are actually hooked up to anything. That iMac still has four cables hooked up to it, and PORTS FOR MORE CABLES.
The one I can’t find, however, is the worst. It’s Jeff Goldblum again, talking about how you get online without being one of those… computer people. Because PCs were for NERDS. (I am not digging up the John Hodgman/Justin Long Mac vs. PC commericals, but that was their primary theme– if you use a PC, you’re a fat middle aged dork, and if you use a Mac, you’re a cool hip guy.)
And the thing was, the original iMac– the one these ads are for– was kinda garbage. It didn’t have a floppy disk, which was still the standard method of data storage. They hailed how cheap it was– but what they failed to mention was that there was hardly any software available
for it and it had zero upgradability. It wasn’t a COMPUTER, it was an
APPLIANCE.
Want better speakers? A bigger monitor? A better video card? Tough shit, because you’ve got a gumdrop with a CPU.
Now, let me take a moment to admit that there have been some good things to come from Apple. They were the first to adopt USB, which pressured Microsoft to add support for it on real computers. (And to be fair, it took Microsoft two or three years to actually get it right– it was *there* in Win98, but it wasn’t very good, and we’re just going to acknowledge that Windows ME was shit.) They changed their operating system to a POSIX compliant Unix variant, thus massively opening up the amount of software they could run and… well… actually giving them an operating system that was worth shit. (They lose a few points, here, though, because they tried to hijack the open source movement– they wanted to make certain parts of their code public, but all rights to any modifcations of that code you made stayed with Apple.) The iPod turned the MP3 player from something that might hold ten songs to something that could hold your entire music library, and they got the music industry on board with actually selling MP3s. THEN they convinced the music industry to drop DRM, so that you could buy music from the iTunes store (or elsewhere) and not have it limited to just the iPod. With the iPhone, they turned the mobile internet from a gimmick that let you access SOME pages on your Palm Pilot, Treo, or Blackberry into something that let you access a much wider range webpages, and created the impetus for the remaining pages to make themselves mobile-accessible.
I had the second-generation iPhone 3G, and lemme tell ya, it was the best thing ever, especially if you hacked it. And I say this despite the fact that, since they had an exclusive contract with AT&T, I couldn’t even use the phone/text features from home. (That one is not actually Apple’s fault– Verizon and Sprint refused to allow Apple to put the iPhone on their network, and AT&T said “okay, but we want an exclusive contract”.) But when I finally got tired of not being able to text/call from home and switched to Verizon, I discovered that the things I had to hack my iPhone to get (a practice that Apple was making increasingly difficult and dangerous intentionally) were standard features on Android. PLUS I now had a flash for my camera, which could be used as a flashlight (originally a hack, but no attempt was made to block it, and now it’s a standard feature), PLUS I could add a memory card to upgrade my storage. PLUS a wider range of bluetooth devices. PLUS a GPS program that actually paid attention to where you were and would let you know when your turn was coming up. Want to run an app that wasn’t available through the official google store? No problem. That’s been a feature on Android for almost a decade.
It almost seems like Apple’s business model occasionally stumbles on something good (or in the case of the original iPhone, world-changing), but mainly focuses on their core values of “restrict hardware to that manufactured by us”, “restrict software to PG stuff that doesn’t compete with us”, “restrict service to us, or people who have paid us a buttload of money for the right”, “release a new phone every year so the customer spends six months wanting the new phone and then another six months NEEDING the new phone because we’ve nerfed their existing ones”, and “convince our customers anyone who uses our competition or has last years model is out of touch”.
i havent seen a damn thing about the new grinch movie, but if they didnt make him a love interest that’s just another grinch but softer w/ eyelashes and one blue streak in her hair named The Binch then i dont wanna know
