Apple mac snob type people.........

[DimPrawn]

Yep. Closed hardware architecture, closed proprietary software architecuture.

It's only the gayness that attracts the punters.

And those that deny it are just closet gays.

[singhr]

FFS DP - whats wrong with being gay?

[EternalOptimist]

my mate is a muso, he got one for the music quality plus the amount of specialist music software he now has access to.

he spent 12k and could easily have spent 30

[DimPrawn]

FFS DP - whats wrong with being gay?

I'll tell you what. It makes you waste your money on a Mac, that's what.

[Moscow Mule]

I'll tell you what. It makes you waste your money on a Mac, that's what.

Says the millionaire DimPrawn. Go and buy a house...

[DimPrawn]

Says the millionaire DimPrawn. Go and buy a house...

No rush. Plenty of time.

[realityhack]

There may well be an annoying Mac fanboi snobbery about, but not all Mac owners are snobs.

I like Macs, mostly because of Apple's design philosophy:

Both their hardware (product design) and their software (UX design) is meticulously crafted, and of a high quality. Sure, there are mistakes, but no-one else has managed to produce such a wide variety of products with such consistency, durability, resilience and affordance. They should be acclaimed for their design guidelines alone. Such attention to detail, and obvious care, makes an Apple product something people can treasure. Why?

It's not just the aesthetics - design is about procedure, logic flow and key principles of perception. Getting these factors right (or more right than the rest) affects the users' emotional response to the product - which may be why the fanboi mentality is perceived, and possibly why people rush to the defence of Apple.

If you invest this heavily in your product design, in making the conceptual system model as aligned as possible to the user model, users will feel ownership over the product, and readily identify themselves with the brand (If the brand is singularly pure and strong enough. Apple's is iconic), which will lend itself to our tribal response.

Owning a design icon, whether it's a Mac, a Mondrian, Mini, Magimix or a Miele - cultivates this kind of emotional response. An iconic design doesn't happen by accident, it's earned and deserved. Good design also cultivates forgiveness, so the 'tribe' will often overlook problems (Battery life on the iPhone, anyone?) because of the goodwill they feel towards the product.

Ah man, I could write about this for days, but you get the picture.

[DimPrawn]

There may well be an annoying Mac fanboi snobbery about, but not all Mac owners are snobs.

I like Macs, mostly because of Apple's design philosophy:

Both their hardware (product design) and their software (UX design) is meticulously crafted, and of a high quality. Sure, there are mistakes, but no-one else has managed to produce such a wide variety of products with such consistency, durability, resilience and affordance. They should be acclaimed for their design guidelines alone. Such attention to detail, and obvious care, makes an Apple product something people can treasure. Why?

It's not just the aesthetics - design is about procedure, logic flow and key principles of perception. Getting these factors right (or more right than the rest) affects the users' emotional response to the product - which may be why the fanboi mentality is perceived, and possibly why people rush to the defence of Apple.

If you invest this heavily in your product design, in making the conceptual system model as aligned as possible to the user model, users will feel ownership over the product, and readily identify themselves with the brand (If the brand is singularly pure and strong enough. Apple's is iconic), which will lend itself to our tribal response.

Owning a design icon, whether it's a Mac, a Mondrian, Mini, Magimix or a Miele - cultivates this kind of emotional response. An iconic design doesn't happen by accident, it's earned and deserved. Good design also cultivates forgiveness, so the 'tribe' will often overlook problems (Battery life on the iPhone, anyone?) because of the goodwill they feel towards the product.

Ah man, I could write about this for days, but you get the picture.

Is this you?

[Unwitting Catalyst]

7th funniest joke at the fringe - applies to all Apple stuff

Marcus Brigstocke - "To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!"

[stingman123]

There may well be an annoying Mac fanboi snobbery about, but not all Mac owners are snobs.

I like Macs, mostly because of Apple's design philosophy:

Both their hardware (product design) and their software (UX design) is meticulously crafted, and of a high quality. Sure, there are mistakes, but no-one else has managed to produce such a wide variety of products with such consistency, durability, resilience and affordance. They should be acclaimed for their design guidelines alone. Such attention to detail, and obvious care, makes an Apple product something people can treasure. Why?

It's not just the aesthetics - design is about procedure, logic flow and key principles of perception. Getting these factors right (or more right than the rest) affects the users' emotional response to the product - which may be why the fanboi mentality is perceived, and possibly why people rush to the defence of Apple.

If you invest this heavily in your product design, in making the conceptual system model as aligned as possible to the user model, users will feel ownership over the product, and readily identify themselves with the brand (If the brand is singularly pure and strong enough. Apple's is iconic), which will lend itself to our tribal response.

Owning a design icon, whether it's a Mac, a Mondrian, Mini, Magimix or a Miele - cultivates this kind of emotional response. An iconic design doesn't happen by accident, it's earned and deserved. Good design also cultivates forgiveness, so the 'tribe' will often overlook problems (Battery life on the iPhone, anyone?) because of the goodwill they feel towards the product.

Ah man, I could write about this for days, but you get the picture.

I assume you are being serious? Owning a design icon? FFS its a computer, you type, you print etc...and don't even get me started on the ipone, it's complete pap.