Apple Continues 'Get a Mac' Ad Campaign with 4 New Ads

[NT1440]

Another well-known behavior (and a desperate last-resort one, at that) is to pull something out of the ol' psychology hat in order to discredit a statement. Sorry to rain on your parade, but I already own two Macs so I could always show off those if I had any interest in such things. I'm gonna have to give you an F for FAIL.

Why didn't you respond to his actual post instead?

 

[Anuba]

Ok, so you think you're "in" now because you have 2 Macs ? Because you said it yourself, people only buy Macs because of some fashion statement. Hence, that's why you bought your 2 Macs right ?

Wait... there's actually two of you who can't handle the notion of different reasons for buying a Mac? It has to be that 100% buy it as a fashion accessory, or 100% buy it for strict utilitarian reasons, and nothing inbetween, huh?

For the I-lost-count-th time: I never said ALL Mac buyers are shallow, what I said was that Apple has a disproportionate amount of customers who buy their computers more as fashion accessories, because it's pretty much the only boutique brand in computers. The risk of the same thing happening to HP or Lenovo is non-existant since nobody in their right mind would find anything remotely fashionable about them -- Lenovo can't go out of fashion because they were never in it.

Why didn't you respond to his actual post instead?

WTF? That was his post. A rant about projection.

 

[KnightWRX]

For the I-lost-count-th time: I never said ALL Mac buyers are shallow, what I said was that Apple has a disproportionate amount of customers who buy their computers more as fashion accessories,

Citation needed.

 

[AidenShaw]

Citation needed.

https://forums.macrumors.com

Look at signatures and any thread about a new Igadget or new MAC.

 

[sidelarge]

I guess you should just reflect on what precisely is wrong with being "shallow," heh.

That's just a strictly capitalist/Marx-ian question, and in that idiom, "shallow" is most likely not a derogatory term at all. That's the driving force of capitalism, the retrospective value-finding system that is. If you use the term to somehow discredit a group of customers, you are committing an almost metaphysical fallacy, and if you take it as an insult, well, you are just wrong.

I mean, what is "deep" then?

I fail to see why so many people think brand business is something irregular in the market. Just kick out of your head this bleak picture of the capitalist market where people only think of quantifiable "demand and supply".

 

[vipergts2207]

https://forums.macrumors.com

Look at signatures and any thread about a new Igadget or new MAC.

Anecdotal evidence, from an Apple oriented forum no less. I can go to a 360 forum and find all kinds of people ranting and raving about how great the 360 is and how the PS3 and Wii suck. Sorry, try again.

 

[BongoBanger]

Let me qualify my earlier comments:

For the average home user:

1. Macs are virtually malware-free
2. Macs are easier to maintain
3. Macs are faster than PCs on comparable hardware.
(Link to but one study: Click Me!)

Power users are a completely different animal. They are well versed in their system of choice and Apple has little chance of converting them.

Absolutely for 1) and 2) but 3) is nonsense based on a really bad article.