"Hi, I'm a Mac" - Apple Product Ownership Hate-spiral.
July 14th 2010 04:28
Link: www.apple.com
Evil Apple or Good Apple?
Sure, there's one in every crowd. That person that shoves their love and respect for Apple products in your face, just that little bit too far, like that over enthusiastic born again christian feels the need to shove in your face the fact you need to be 'saved' by god unless you want to burn in eternal hell. Well that person is me, at least in-regards-to owning Apple products. However, there's a few points I need to raise to justify this and how it feels like it's all about to change...
It started small back in 2008 when I for the first time stood outside in the cold lined up in the darkness of the morning for hours to be lucky person number 6 to receive an iPhone 3G. It was novel, smart phones and touch screen phones to a lesser extent had very little market share or support from the public. However, I very quickly fell in love with the iPhone because, "it just worked." Sure it didn't have as many features or beefy specs like other phones at that point but it did it's own thing in a much more elegant way and it was awesome. The Apple fanboyisim was raised to a whole new level when I bought a Mac. It was really nice that features and products worked, snappy and fast unlike every PC I had bought that becomes bloated and slow after a year and my phone worked perfectly with it. I also really felt, every time someone whinged about their PC I should make a point about Macs because they at that point were completely underrated. One year on and my Mac is still like brand new, (See, there I go again.)
In the past year with the introduction of the iPad and the popularity of the iPod Touch almost every man and his dog has an iPhone. It's like the Nokia 5110 of 2010. I'm very sure because of this it has also has also increased the sales of macs exponentially in a similar fashion to the Apple iLife adoption craze I, only a year prior had experienced. Now, every lecture room I sit in, I see more and more Macs and glowing Apples on the case, the same can be said for coffee shops and general television and media placement, they're everywhere! Earlier this year, Apple also surpassed Microsoft in-regards-to wealth. Which is pretty amazing for a company who less than a decade ago was on life support and Dell's CEO at the time come forward and suggested Apple close down and relinquish all profit to share holders before everyone lost out.
What is starting to get me now is the fact that more and more iPhones, Macs and iPads that get into general circulation, boosts Apples needs to raise the stakes, which in a competitive sense has been great as it has spurred healthy competition and feature evolution amongst it's products. I also fear that my now once niche, "it just works" company will become that of Microsoft pumping out products to meet demand but ever so slowly losing quality control due to the prior. This has been demonstrated by the iPhone 4, it's revolutionary antenna turned into a dud as it may have not been throughly tested and ends up negating signal when held. I also fear the large scale introduction of phishing and virus creation targeted at Mac computers which in the past hasn't been a problem as it was a pretty small following.
I really hope that Apple is able to cope with its growth and that the products that I really love will retain the quality they've always had.
Well, that being said, I'm going to drink a bottle of vodka and play angry birds on iPhone. Then maybe do some tapir decoupage...
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