QUOTE (Torchy @ Apr 21 2010, 04:27 PM)
Apple: The triumph of marketing over engineering. Why do people fall for the Apple hype and spend so much money on tarted up old technology?
I wouldn't say that is was old technology exactly, but a renewed solution to an age old requirement. With the advance of miniaturisation in electronics we get more for less. humans want 'freedom' as with the motor car. I agree that people DO fall for marketing, much more than is healthy for a sustainable society. Funnily enough, when in the pub the other evening, one of the older guys said that he saw two teenagers , I quote, 'totally abusing their phones by messaging each other when they were in the same room'. I tried to explain that we saw them invented, so it didn't affect the way in which we used 'phones/devices', because we already had established lifelong experience without them.