That's what there are options.
What about all the people who don't find gold "tasteless".
Why does it just have to be just about you?
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What about all the people who don't find gold "tasteless".
Why does it just have to be just about you?
That's such a false equivalence. There are a billion iPhones and they all are made mostly because of their functionality, with luxuries like quality being a nice plus. You'd be surprised about needing Apple products. Most people in the civilized world actually do need iPhones and can't live without them.
Jewelry, on the other hand, is useless.
Sorry but you're the one making assumptions here. You assumed that someone who would spend money on gold are vain and selfish and should have put their money to good use. I know many people who are involved in humanitarian causes and devote much of their life to helping others, yet you implied that anyone who owned anything expensive and luxurious such as gold don't hold those characteristics. Sorry but nice try spinning it around.
The most expensive car anyone in my family has owned costed $11,000 used. Nobody in my family has owned a car made less than 10 years before they bought it, so none have bought a car brand new.
But the cars do something important. People spending $15,000 on watches aren't helping society by doing that even if they do pretentiously support humanitarian causes. You have to have too much money to buy a real luxury watch. Spending 170000% the price of a basic wristwatch for a luxury watch isn't rational. Even clones of $10,000 watches are identical for 1/100 the price.
Is this the kind of humanitarian you were talking about?
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/bill-gates-secrets-111425
Even psycho killers with enough money to buy luxury watches don't buy them.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/10/05/jeweler-finds-oj-simpson-rolex-watch-to-be-fake.html
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How about a separate number pad that can either attach to the keyboard to act as one device or be used separately. That way everyone is happy.
Some things are tasteless, regardless how you twist it.
And I didn't say it has to be just about me... I express my opinion. IMO, obsession with gold especially in tech field is tasteless. Gold watch, gold phones, gold cars, gold chains, gold teeth... Meh.
People who like gold can get it at many other places, Apple is not the only source of gold gimmicks on this planet.
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I'd say they hold those humanitarian characteristics but also probably hold those mentioned such as selfish and vain.
Probably deep inside they know you're right but don't want to acknowledge it and feel guilty.
In two years I'll give up my iPhone 6 and buy the latest iPad Mini. And just rock that. I find I use my phone for so much except actually calling. It does things really well except phone calls. I can't hear anyone and sometimes I have glitches where I can't answer a call or call out when connected via blutooth. It's annoying.
I'm going iPad only in a year or two.
I think it's the right choice for me.
I really hope they update the iPad Mini I love the size it's perfect!
Here's to hoping they continue releasing a mini version.
I'm going iPad only in a year or two.
I think it's the right choice for me.
I really hope they update the iPad Mini I love the size it's perfect!
Here's to hoping they continue releasing a mini version.
Oh and They better have a Number Pad on the new wireless keyboard. C'mon! Num pads are so much faster. Or at least preferred by most.
It's funny if you really think about it, the way people say they like gold.
In reality they don't like gold. It's a mental thing that's been programmed into you from childhood.
And nothing you can say will alter this fact as we are all just products of our experiences both physical and mental.
If we grew up in a world where gold was everywhere, as common as sand, it would have little interest.
Who wants to be seem wearing that cheap and nasty gold everyone has.
It's a throw away common metal, no woman would dream of being seen wearing gold.
But Aluminium, or steel was amazingly rare and expensive, very little of it around.
People would be paying thousands and say how much they adore aluminium.
Again, it would have nothing to do with it being Aluminium, it's just the mental perception you would of formed during your life about how only the rich can have aluminium due to it's rarity.
It's funny when you realise none of this is actually real, it's just all in our minds the WORTH of someone, and how our desire for it, is totally artificially created.
In reality they don't like gold. It's a mental thing that's been programmed into you from childhood.
And nothing you can say will alter this fact as we are all just products of our experiences both physical and mental.
If we grew up in a world where gold was everywhere, as common as sand, it would have little interest.
Who wants to be seem wearing that cheap and nasty gold everyone has.
It's a throw away common metal, no woman would dream of being seen wearing gold.
But Aluminium, or steel was amazingly rare and expensive, very little of it around.
People would be paying thousands and say how much they adore aluminium.
Again, it would have nothing to do with it being Aluminium, it's just the mental perception you would of formed during your life about how only the rich can have aluminium due to it's rarity.
It's funny when you realise none of this is actually real, it's just all in our minds the WORTH of someone, and how our desire for it, is totally artificially created.
It's a Chinese cultural thing. Watch in horror as Tim Cook's Apple morphs into Sony.
As an owner of a (black) Sony phone with base storage of 32 GB, water and dust proof chassis and a microSD slot, I can only say "you wish!"It's a Chinese cultural thing. Watch in horror as Tim Cook's Apple morphs into Sony.
Lol, when you say they need an iPhone, I'll assume you mean a smartphone, which begs the question.. Why have one with an inferior feature set, screen and camera to other smartphones on the market.. Glad we've cleared that up..
Is it not enough for you to just use your non-Apple phone? Read my post again to learn what I was actually arguing about.
I clearly was arguing that consumer technology is a greater necessity than jewelry. Don't try so hard with your pro-Android agenda.
As I said before. It's so funny when you think about it.
You have to learn and be told to like many things and value many things.
A very cultural and social thing, also a way of keeping the general public in control and the rich in power, as again, none of this is real it all man made-up concepts.
You have to learn / be told that plastic is cheap, gold is expensive.
In the same way you need to be told that Ice Cream is cheap and Caviar is expensive. when Ice cream is nicer.
If you took people who never knew any of this and gave them materials and products, they would pick random items, based on totally different criteria that we use today.
Like foods from the past were cheap peasant food, and now they are. You as a child are taught (brainwashed?) as to how you are expected to think about things so you fit into our current society's concept of normal.
Gold for a case would be heavy and soft.
Titanium for a case would be light and very strong.
And yet gold is the one many want.... why?
funny isn't it. and kinda sad that we as humans are stuck in this way of thinking.
You have to learn and be told to like many things and value many things.
A very cultural and social thing, also a way of keeping the general public in control and the rich in power, as again, none of this is real it all man made-up concepts.
You have to learn / be told that plastic is cheap, gold is expensive.
In the same way you need to be told that Ice Cream is cheap and Caviar is expensive. when Ice cream is nicer.
If you took people who never knew any of this and gave them materials and products, they would pick random items, based on totally different criteria that we use today.
Like foods from the past were cheap peasant food, and now they are. You as a child are taught (brainwashed?) as to how you are expected to think about things so you fit into our current society's concept of normal.
Gold for a case would be heavy and soft.
Titanium for a case would be light and very strong.
And yet gold is the one many want.... why?
funny isn't it. and kinda sad that we as humans are stuck in this way of thinking.
Agreed.
This is indeed the problem with Apple products.
If Apple Licenced their tech (which they never will) then, like with PC's you would have a MASSIVE choice about the look, feel, quality, colour, materials etc etc of what you wanted your Apple product to be like.
Because Apple control everything. It's all biased towards making their life easier and profits larger, so you choice is to buy what they make or go without.
It is a shame for those who would like more of a selection.
This is probably why Apple don't like the idea of hybrids, tablet and computer such as the Surface, it's also probably one of the reins why Apple won't do a hybrid. The iPad Pro will probably be a bigger iPad (not that I'm complaining)
I'd be right there with you except for a couple of things: one, the iPad Mini, as lovely as it is, is still too big to carry around casually in my pocket. I'll be jumping from the 5S to the 6S Plus soon, and I'm concerned about even that size, though I think it will work fine. But the iPad Mini is just not gonna fit in a pocket.
The even bigger issue is I still need cellular phone service because not everyone has Apple products and iMessage and I still need to be able to receive texts and phone calls from people who have Androids and landlines, unfortunately. Without asking them to use What's App or something to reach me, I don't see how I could actually go all-internet at this point, as attractive as it is to ditch the overpriced cell phone plan.
Probably because deep inside, it's just one person shouting at people about how they're spending their money. People don't like being told how to spend money they earned.