Apple hardware
04/04/08 22:45 Filed in: Hardware
Apple does make some of the worlds coolest hardware
for sure. Today I came to think that this maybe,
above any other reason me we love them so much.
I've been doing a lot of typing recently, what with
my script (sorry
I've still not had to time to upload it, maybe
tomorrow),this blog and my other secret projects
going on I've been living at my keyboard either
here at home or at work. And since my nice curvy
natural Microsoft natural keyboard keeps my mac
from sleeping (ever), I've been using the
standard apple keyboard (old style) at home.
It's nice keyboard, but it's not the natural
type which is by far my preferred option.
And since I've been using it some much, I've been feeling my wrists a bit. So while on my lunch today, I sprang for the one of the new style apple keyboard. Now I know when these came out I said how awful they looked/felt, but they have been growing on me of late, and the low profile of the keyboard, may well help keep my wrists comfortable.
So I had the box sitting on my desk all afternoon and in that 4 or so hours, I had 5 people stop, look at and comment on the keyboard. It's just a keyboard, there must be 20 keyboards in the office around my desk, but this keyboard (not even out of it's box) was clearly special. It has been designed and not just ordered from some no-name producer of hardware in China somewhere.
Now 3 of the people that commented on it where fellow developers and one of them is an existing mac user, but the other two, where definitely not techie types and they still stopped and looked at the thing. And remember I have a 'weird curvy' keyboard on my desk too (one of only 3 in the company).
Thats the sort of thing that's apple's designs do to people. It grabs your attention. In a world of no name clones apple products stand out. Add to this the fact that at the moment, we mac users are in the minority and we really stand out. We are different from the rest, and yes this can make us think, probably correctly :}, that we are better than the rest. No I don't actually mean that, I might think it because I am different, I'm a mac user, but I really know that we are just different, not better. And being different is good, if the world was full of mac users then the PC users would get that sort of feeling (in between windows crashing on them :}, (sorry)
So there we go. The reason that mac users are such fanatics is that we like to stand out in the crowd, we like to be different and we like really cool hardware! We also like cool software, but mostly it's the hardware.
And since I've been using it some much, I've been feeling my wrists a bit. So while on my lunch today, I sprang for the one of the new style apple keyboard. Now I know when these came out I said how awful they looked/felt, but they have been growing on me of late, and the low profile of the keyboard, may well help keep my wrists comfortable.
So I had the box sitting on my desk all afternoon and in that 4 or so hours, I had 5 people stop, look at and comment on the keyboard. It's just a keyboard, there must be 20 keyboards in the office around my desk, but this keyboard (not even out of it's box) was clearly special. It has been designed and not just ordered from some no-name producer of hardware in China somewhere.
Now 3 of the people that commented on it where fellow developers and one of them is an existing mac user, but the other two, where definitely not techie types and they still stopped and looked at the thing. And remember I have a 'weird curvy' keyboard on my desk too (one of only 3 in the company).
Thats the sort of thing that's apple's designs do to people. It grabs your attention. In a world of no name clones apple products stand out. Add to this the fact that at the moment, we mac users are in the minority and we really stand out. We are different from the rest, and yes this can make us think, probably correctly :}, that we are better than the rest. No I don't actually mean that, I might think it because I am different, I'm a mac user, but I really know that we are just different, not better. And being different is good, if the world was full of mac users then the PC users would get that sort of feeling (in between windows crashing on them :}, (sorry)
So there we go. The reason that mac users are such fanatics is that we like to stand out in the crowd, we like to be different and we like really cool hardware! We also like cool software, but mostly it's the hardware.
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