i know they'll probably unveil an all-new model in june, but i don't care--i had to have me one of these while they still exist.
why would i buy a product so late in its life cycle when there are faster, cheaper competitors available, you might ask?
simple: because, to my mind--i.e., that of an overly-picky depressive who finds fault with everything--the iphone 4/4s comes as close to perfection as any mass-produced object ever made, at any price.
the conventional wisdom among american manufacturers has always been that, in order to achieve mass acceptance, it's necessary to dumb brilliance down--because either the idea itself or the attendant cost to bring it to fruition is more than the masses can bear [you want proof, just look at the difference between any concept car by any company and the lame-ass model that ends up in production].
this, to me, is the true genius of steve jobs: he made brilliance not only acceptable to the masses, but something they'd be willing to trample each other to pay double for.
so screw all you naysayers who dismiss apple products as nothing more than the darlings of the trendy, vapid and pretentious--because if that weren't so, they wouldn't be accessible to
me.
1 comment:
The i-phone and the i-pad have virtual keyboards.
I consider virtual keyboards unacceptable.
You are willing to sacrifice function for design. And, yes, this has always been the case for you.
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