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Step 1. fashion
Step 2. techfashion then tech
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Step 4. Profit!
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THE CREAM ALL WAYS RISES TOO THE TOP
JUST LOOK AT THE BUTTON AND TAP YOUR FINGERS TOGETHER BROTHER, oh yeahhh!
It’s well established that modern Apple is a marketing company that happens to have many products in the tech field.
I feel like Vision Pro has plenty of tech, but it seems like a solution in search of a problem.
i feel like it’s going to be another case of the ipad. i dont really remember anyone thinking the original ipad had a reason to exist when it came out (myself included). but after 8-10 years or so, it found a problem that it could solve. (it’s a nice way to take handwritten notes.) it’s not really necessary now, but it’s certainly way more useful than the original ipad was when it first came out.
i dont think the original vision pro will be that useful to anyone, but it might start a line of products that leads to something interesting in 8-10 years. or not, who knows.
Spending a Thousand dollars on a glorified legal pad sounds clinically insane.
I have a TV for watching things at home.
I have a phone for watching things on the go.
If I need to look up information outside my house, again I have my phone which I already pay to be connected to the internet. You need an additional line on your plan for a data connection on an iPad, or rely on public WiFi.
If I need to take notes on something, I can use a 1 dollar legal pad or notebook, which is barely bigger than an IPad and will never run out of charge. If I need to take so many notes that I’ll fill up an entire notebook, I’ll probably just ask to record the thing as a voice memo on my phone.
I’ve still never been convinced that an iPad is a useful device, and I don’t see any way the Vision Pro will be useful for anything other than inundating us with advertising for a larger percent of our existence. God forbid someone spend 10 minutes not looking at their phone and generating revenue for an ad company, now they want to literally strap them to our heads.
doesnt sound like it’s something that will be of much use to you, and thats fine. but i use it all the time to annotate textbooks and take notes when studying.
Before all phones were phablets, a tablet was a good middle ground between phone and laptop. Especially for casual browsing and media not having a keyboard in the way and the better battery life was a real benefit to sofa computing.
Now we are seeing phones encroach on 7 inches, what would have been a small tablet a decade ago their use case has dwindled. Now they are a laptop alternatives or child minders.
Apple’s vice president of retail used to work for Burberry and I believe since they began to work there, the entire Apple brand shifted into more luxury and premium fashion accessories.
I was told Apple is a luxury brand. Most luxury brands focus on fashion.
This makes way too much sense.
They have been for decades at this point. Remember the iPod commercials, the ones with the dancing silhouettes of people with the white headphone wires highlighted? In the early 2000’s, those white headphones were a status symbol. A literal fashion accessory, jewelry.
This progressed to the iPhone and then aluminum chassis Macbooks. The majority of people who buy a Macbook Air or Pro aren’t doing it for productivity or any particular workflow reason. They’re doing it so they will be seen at Starbucks or around their quad with a Macbook.
Apple is a marketing company. A hugely successful one, yes, but their main product is not technology. It’s image.
The majority of people who buy a Macbook Air or Pro aren’t doing it for productivity or any particular workflow reason. They’re doing it so they will be seen at Starbucks or around their quad with a Macbook.
Do you really believe this?
Having met and supported hardware for many Mac users in my day? Yes. If this doesn’t describe you: Congratulations. You’re in the minority.
Where I live people are buying them because they’re capable machines with great battery life. I’ve never seen anyone get excited because they saw a guy with a MacBook Pro in Starbucks.
Always has been. Apple is valuable because of their status symbol first and foremost.
Aside from the apple 2 days, it’s always been fashion first company.
It’s because they are. Apple wants to position itself as a “Luxury Brand” first and foremost, that happens to sell mostly tech stuff. Look at the absurd accessory prices, like this thousand dollar monitor stand. There is no reality in which that piece of shit is actually worth that much, but by offering their stupid shit at those prices, people can be associated with such opulence whenever they buy other Apple products. They just want to be the Gucci of computers, and it shows in how they have only been innovating on ways to extract money for low quality products, and not in the actual technology itself.
