>Don't underestimate trendy. Whenever I walk past a Mac store its like looking into the future.
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yeah, me too. Any time I see a Mac store in the future I plan to walk past <g>
( okay, maybe it isn't Scientology ... what are the Moonies doing these days ? <s> )
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>>Apple is "trendy". Nothing more.
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>>From what I've seen of the new WIndows phones, they're very slick.
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>>And for all those kids that voted for Obama and think the iPod is the only way to be cool, Obama uses a Zune.
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>>>Spent a day with college kids in the US last week. Every one of them already had or intended to upgrade to an iPhone, though some planned to wait until May when the new version is expected with a better camera, higher resolution and possibly a pressure-sensitive back.
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>>>Their reason? The gravity sensor, the 3G and the apps... but in the end, because everybody that matters to them already has one. I did quiz them about other options (like Windows and dual-sim options) and learned that Windows is for grey-hairs and that the real battle is between Apple and the Google Empire. Some of these kids had near-new motorola/nokias and even a few Androids, but still wanted to change. Seems Apple is doing something right and that the high cost itself may represent some sort of badge of honor, just like a Cartier watch I guess.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
