Resistance is futile. I’m not a fan boy, I’m not an engineer but I’m also not clueless, I’m a realist. The fact remains that apple products by and large function better, look better and hold their value better. I used to get pissed, I remember buying my accessories on e-bay direct from china (av cables, car dock fm modulator) and then when either I uprgaded software or phone version, sudenly the damn thing knew I bought a cheap knock off and refused to cooperate with it. There’s no reason to spend $50 on an apple a/v jack, but in the end, I succumbed. Because it’s about stuff working. I have a drawer full of old chargers adn phones and accesories that have no value, but my de-commissioned iphone 3g, even more than two years old, has value, all of the accesories still work on my iphone 4. My employer gives me a free smart phone of my choice but will not buy an iphone, usually, I just use my iphone after I’ve yelled at the other phone for a while, 90% of the planet thinks like me, that’s why there are lines.
I hate it like I hate car shopping (which I am still doing). I hate that german cars cost twice the money for parts, it makes no sense. I resist, I look at domestics, I talk myself into them at times, but i have yet to pull the trigger because somewhere between the ford or dodge dealer and my house, I’ll see a 6 series convertible or a porsche and think that i can have a used one of those instead, I’ll have more fun driving it, I’ll admire it, I’ll enjoy the unearned sexual attention of the opposite sex, I’m only gonna live one, why the hell am I resisting. Cause i tell myself I don’t need those things. But the detractors of my dream car are not found in my apple gear, cause my apple gear has the sexy of a 6 series with the reliability of an accord. It just costs a little more and it’s stats aren’t as good.
Case in point, I’m typing this on my very powerful PC, but if I move to my mac, I wouldn’t have the typos that i have, because my mac corrects everything I write and I never asked it to. Someone mentioned the iWoman or iDate, the analogy works, if apple were a girlfriend, she would always look good, she would always be ready to go, she would know more secrets than victoria and she would never complain.m She wouldn’t be inexpensive and there would be other models with more modifications and better statistics. But I wouldn’t care, as much as others told me there was something better, i wouldn’t believe them and if i did I still wouldn’t care, I’d write them off as being jealous or thinking about today, cause my gal will still be able to hold my attention years down the line.
Yeah, it’s creepy, fight it as long as you can, but I still maintain that if my house was on fire, the first non living things I’d try to save would be my iphone and my macbook pro. The rest is just crap.
