From: Jared Bland (jrbm689_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 12:16:24 PST
>>> I'm sure they are doing their best but never have I felt so out of
>>> tune with
>>> what Apple are doing.
>> <snip>
>
>> PowerMac G5) as they were just 4 years ago,
> Wait, you were like 10?
Yes, does that mean I hadn't a brain?
>> They have lost one key thing all Apple products used to have - and
>> have no more. Their personality. Using my 12" PowerBook 867, I do
>> not feel the emotional
>> bond I had with my Blueberry iMac DV. I feel as if I'm on a superior
>> OS running on a slick computer (Apple OS + Sony 'Book). Nothing more.
> Hmmm, this is indeed a powerful point. But apple has built many
> powerful and emotionally inspiring machines in past that were dismal
> failures in the market (visavis Newt). Also, maybe you should go back
> and use windows for a bit to see what a real cold fish feels like.
Oh, I know what Windows feels like. But you're saying the current
Apple is "good enough", just like Steve Ballmer says Windows XP is
"good enough"
>>
>> I wish Apple would do something, because a stable, pretty OS (which
>> Panther is not) and thin, light machines not sell computers in a world
>> of beige the way a Bondi Blue All-In-One will.
> Perhaps this is true, I'm not so sure. In reality I think the new
> approach is probably a better way to sell machines. Many people are
> scared away by things that are too obviously different.
Sad, many humans have turned away from their creative side and allowed
themselves to become ants/drones. (Mocking myself) The world is a
terrible place, these days and we all know the only way to turn this
place around is with flavored computers :P
>> People want something
>> truly different,
> About 5% Apparently.
Don't start THAT now. Do you really think only 5% of the world wants
something like the iMac? There are many factors which contribute to
the type of computing device purchased. There is cost, region,
electrical and spacial demands. Anyway, what I'm trying to say it,
more than 5% of the world WANTS something truly different.
>> and Apple's current lineup of products (including
>> their software and OS) is truly... not.
> OSX is truly different from windows, which makes it quite a unique item
> in the market for personal computers. OSX is really the story Apple
> has to tell now. The hardware is as it ALWAYS has been, secondary. As
> long as they continue to improve (yes there is room for this :~) OSX
> and out develop MS, which they are handily doing at the moment, they
> are on the right track IMHO.
Hardware may be secondary in the end, but when Millions of people
purchased Bondi Blue iMacs in 1998, do you think they really thought
the OS was THAT great? No, it was the hardware which attracted those
consumers. It's time for apple to break out of its shell of
white/silver. It's boring and uninspiring. It's nice and you may like
it, but think of the big picture - when were you happier about Apple?
1998 or 2004? (And don't start with processor speeds, etc. I'm talking
about opinions about the "here-and-now" of each year.
>> Apple, hear my plea! Bring that "WOW" factor back into your
>> computers
>> and the OS they run.
> The wow factor is nice, but it's important to "stick to the knitting"
> which isn't exciting or as obvious, but ultimately is much more
> important IMHO. Also, watch for the G5 and new architecture to appear
> across the whole Apple product line real soon now.
It's nice to have good underlying architecture and a stable OS (which,
as I said before, Panther isn't), but obvious difference sells (as long
as you market compatibility as well).
>> Thin and light no longer mean "different". Show
>> us the light, Apple - like you did in 1984, 1998 and 2001.
> You weren't born in 1984. heh. Again let me say I think as does $J that
> most of the real innovation to come in personal computing is going to
> be in the software.
Hardware is secondary in the end, but people don't buy OSes, they buy
computers. And people who have an understanding of the industry and
the advantages of a Mac will buy a Mac. Most consumers don't have an
understanding, so they need some serious difference. If you put a Sony
laptop and a PowerBook next to each other, and asked a consumer which
one is more inspiring or "different" there is only a 40-50% chance it'd
be the Apple. Panther is mediocre, Mac QualityControl is ....
non-existent? or failing. Where are we headed? If Apple keeps up this
"professional" looking computer and OS lineup, people won't see the
difference (in the hardware, because it takes hardware to sell the OS)
and will buy the cheaper Dell.
There were always cheaper computers than the iMac, but its wonderful
design captured people's creative minds. It inspired consumers.
Nothing Apple is currently making is truly inspiring. It's nice, but
just not what I would expect.
> Marty
>
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