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M-Saunders
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| guy wrote: | | As for the happy shiny-fashion-accessory collector |
Can we please stop calling all Apple product users such things? It doesn't help our cause. If everyone who bought them got bored of them after a day and they were all on eBay at ridiculously low prices, you'd have a point.
But I read that the iPad has the highest customer satisfaction rate of any consumer electronics device ever, and I know people who absolutely love them. They get a lot out of them. Dismissing all these people in one fell-swoop like as "accessory collectors" shows a vast misunderstanding of what people really want in a portable computer, and makes us look totally out-of-touch.
If we want Linux to get beyond 1-2% desktop market share, we've got to understand what people really want to do with their computers, push our strengths, and not snidely dismiss everyone as "iSheep".
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towy71
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:42 am Post subject: |
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My sister loves her iPad because it "just works" and her grandchildren can help her use it 
I have to say that I quite like it too, though I couldn't afford to buy one 
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guy
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| M-Saunders wrote: | | guy wrote: | | As for the happy shiny-fashion-accessory collector |
Can we please stop calling all Apple product users such things? It doesn't help our cause. If everyone who bought them got bored of them after a day and they were all on eBay at ridiculously low prices, you'd have a point.
But I read that the iPad has the highest customer satisfaction rate of any consumer electronics device ever, and I know people who absolutely love them. They get a lot out of them. |
Which, actually, is the exact reason I described them as "happy".
| Quote: | | Dismissing all these people in one fell-swoop like as "accessory collectors" shows a vast misunderstanding of what people really want in a portable computer, and makes us look totally out-of-touch. |
Well, put one way, anything I routinely carry around is an accessory. Put another, I regard my collection of bleepy things as functional accessories to a lifestyle that can in fact exist without them. Is that so harsh? If your lifestyle cannot, then fair enough - "jail" would be less apt than "drug".
That just leaves "shiny fashion". I trust you agree that Apple exert great effort in making their products shiny and fashionable.
| Quote: | | If we want Linux to get beyond 1-2% desktop market share, we've got to understand what people really want to do with their computers, push our strengths, and not snidely dismiss everyone as "iSheep". |
You should try counting them.
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Brian Hunter
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I enjoy Richard Stallman because I like people who are 'out there', in terms of societal norms, but I would never send my friends his way when talking about our wonderful world of FLOSS/Open Source/Free/Libre/Anything Else You Want To Call It world.
I know Stallman is the President of the FSF, but I have no idea what that actually means. What does he do for the FSF?
I think his conviction is admirable, but his confrontational and unapologetic behaviour does rub many the wrong way. I wouldn't want to sit beside him on a long bus journey, that's for sure.
Forking the FSF to get rid of Stallman seems a shallow goal. Would working with the FSF, while denouncing Stallman's statement(s), not give you the best of both worlds? |
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