How Has Apple Improved Your Life?

When the kids iPods broke, they are darn near impossible to fix or even take apart. The Nano I had, the battery wore out so that turned into a useless piece of junk. Quite frankly, I'm not really much a fan of Apple products. I'll get flamed by the faithful, but oh, well.

Not by me - I bought my last Apple product in 1988 (a Mac SE30) - got tired of being the odd man out

Embedded in the culture. So true. My eight year old boy talks of wanting an iPhone and he has no idea what it can do besides take pictures. The mania has filtered down to children.

Mr. Jobs was able to convince just about everyone on the planet that they needed his products. He developed new ones that were totally unnecessary until he began to sell them. People didn't know they needed that product. Pure genius in that regard and a testament to his person.

Other manufacturers will continue to suffer lawsuits and play catchup as long as the mania continues. This behavior stifles innovation.

Without him steering the Apple juggernaut, I think his vision will eventually become milky. The people buying his products will become tired of purchasing a new one every two years because the previous version has been rendered obsolete and useless.

Evolution will become revolution once feature creep has packed a product with so much junk that it is rendered unfriendly. People will demand a new product because that is what they expect from Apple. Apple will eventually run out of ideas and their products will end up next to the George Foreman Grill.

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I don't use Apple products myself, but have an email proclaiming:

First there was Adams apple;

then there was Newton's apple;

now we have Steve's apple...

Praise indeed!

A quick survey around the office finds half the engineers had iPhones. The other half had a mix of old flip phones and new Androids. (I am resisting the urge to build a data matrix)

I myself am in the "New Android" category. I have a Droid Incredible because it is almost as good as an iPhone. I want to be able to interface with all my custom software applications and Apple products are too limited for me.

(By the same reasoning, I want to drive and "American" vehicle, so I have a Ford Ranger because it is almost as good as a Toyota Hilux. Silly, I know.)

BTW, the iPhone ownership percentage goes way up among the Designer/Technician level guys. Take that as you will.

-A-

I think the very early Apple computers gave the IBM/PC crowd something to look up to, but it became clear later on that Macs were second string to Microsoft-based PC's. If they didn't imbed themselves so deeply into the graphic arts business, I sincerely believe Apple would have gone the way of the Atari ST.

Apple changed all our lives no matter what brand computer you have. It was Steve Jobs that made personal PC's possible and IBM's biggest flub my not taking advantage of the market that Steve Jobs exploited after first presenting the idea to IBM. Our whole information dependent society is due to Steve Jobs initial creating the personal PC.

Apple improved my life by making it easier to identify folk who were susceptible to clever marketing strategies.

The Apple halo over their heads is a dead give away.

More money than sense.