I know people who take their macs, iPads, iPhones and go to Starbucks specifically to buy a frap costing close to six bucks, and a pastry for another four, and use the free internet for hours, and I mean until their frap looks like a melted liquid cup of puke. I observed them, I watched them looking around themselves trying to see if anyone is noticing them while trying not to get noticed while doing so, that crap is funny to me (sorry). I also see some of the things they are using their computers for. Most times its for messaging, sometimes its for youtube and Facebook or iTunes music, a lot of times its for school studies and the once and a while business meeting. Aside from the school work and business work, it is all for show. people go there who wouldn't even know what a hot cup of pikes would taste like with out cool whip and caramel drizzled onto of it.
I am an equal opportunist who has dell, toshiba, systems with windows (unfortunately) and linux installed on them and I also have Apple products such as macbook pro, mac mini and iPad, Aside from my cell, which (yea, you guessed it) is an iPhone, I can not bring myself to go to Starbucks to piss away hours at a time on my laptop with my wife sitting across from me or waiting for me at home. I can not even find a reason to want to bring my laptop to the COFFEE STORE, i mean, come on, its COFFEE! if I was in college with a huge break in-between classes, or, I worked from home and was just too lazy to make my own coffee (but had enough energy to not only drag ass but also my laptop to Starbucks and stand on their outrageous lines), then yea, I would.
Starbucks and Apple computers are a status symbol because of the cost of their coffee and the cost of the equipment people bring while drinking their coffee. It seems to be the poor bastards way to display superiority and or popularity over those who can't.
I just won't.
