At 11:16 2014-02-28, Christof Wollenhaupt
<[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
At the end of the day, these corporations sell the exact same stuff to
billions of people. How personal can this experience possibly be?
Entirely personal. They sell the hardware and software, not
the experience. They do contribute to what it is like.
The OS has become a commodity, anyway. Computer power has become a
commodity (our main machines are in a data center). Most people seem to pay
more attention to whether something is new, rather what the exact technical
specification is. Developers are a rare exception. Years ago when somebody
posted that they bought a new laptop, Toni Feltman used to joke and ask
"which color?". I admit that these days I do pay more attention to the
color of my computer than the type of RAM or CPU model. Apple makes that
easy. They are like Starbucks: MacBook Tall, MacBook Grande, MacBook
Venti... and you can pick a flavor.
Unfortunately, the last pcs I have gotten have been
lightsucker, I mean, black. Beige may be "boring", but it does show the light.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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