On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:58 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Not out of touch, as you say. I understand that those folks who received the iPody devices are primarily thrilled because they now have what "everybody else" has. This is the lemming mentality. These gift recipients finally belong, no longer outcasts.
Not at all. You are looking at the world through the eyes of a Windows user. You get what everybody else has got, not because it is good, but because it is what everybody else has got. The logic for iPods and iPhones is very different. People do not buy those because they are the cheapest choice. People get them because they are the very best and happen to be very reasonably priced. While this produces a situation where almost everybody has one, the motivation is very different. Having an iPod or an iPhone brings true joy. Most people who get Windows justify it by telling you why they had to get it (instead of the Mac that they really wanted).
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