I told my dad about this and he guffawed out loud while saying that this was "perfect timing."
*shakes head* I'm like "What the *censored*....?" and he said, "Check if Apple's stocks have dropped," followed by another burst of explosive laughter. I guess when you find Apple's products expensive you soon adopt a rather cynical view of Apple as a swindler trying to usurp money through psychological tactics which involve the famous but rather Orwellian "I'm a Mac, you're a PC" line.
I asked my mother and she was in a rather philosophical mood and cited the cliche, "The old have to make way for the new some day..." and said she would always keep the iPhone 3G she has owned for 3.5 years as a relic of technological genius.
I asked a few of my friends and acquaintances (most of who own at least one Apple product) and the majority said that this was all the more incentive to buy the 4S because this was the last product created with Steve Jobs in house. Some of them who have seen my rather unappealing computer motherboard rack have said that they would rather pay the price premium for a "more reliable" unibody iMac/MacBook than "generic cheapskate Windows computers" or "computers like yours without warranty." When I tell them about the specs:price ratio, they claim that "it works fine for us." Why make this
or this:
When you can buy this pre-made? It is shiny!
I have always seen Apple as a company like Louis Vuitton-it serves the same functional purpose as its cheaper counterparts-but its aesthetic appeal has transformed it into a symbol of status.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPLhttp://www.google.com/finance?cid=22144Down by -0.23% as of now.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/mac-vs-pc-myth-busting-consumer-guide/http://hunch.com/media/reports/macpc/
