I know and it's rather frightening. Who would have thought that the day would come when you could spot a smug hipster not because they had something Apple but because they had something that wasn't. I can sense smug Android/Zune HD hipsters coming from blocks away. I can't wait until the Courier comes out, it's going to be Apple smugness from the 00's times 100.
"@Kris91 Is that what we're calling the vast hordes of anti-Apple zealots that are dominating gadget blogs these days?"
Actually most of those 'anti-Apple zealots' as you put it were pretty pro Apple up until a year or so ago. The reason for the change? Disappointment and failure to innovate.
If you have two events where nothing really happens and you release the worst gadget of the year (Shuffle 3) and then you back it up with an announcement releasing a giant iPod Touch when people - rightly or wrongly - expected more the gloss is starting to come off.
Will the iPad be a commercial success? Despite my initial misgivings I think it will but in a niche way, not mass market.
But here's the thing: There's more excitement in the commenting community around products being released or hyped by ...*gasp*... Microsoft than there is products being released by Apple at the moment. That would have been utterly unheard of a year ago (and quite rightly so). That to me is pretty interesting in itself.
As for the whole vapourware thing, did it ever occur to anyone that maybe Microsoft have taken a leaf out of Apple's marketing book and realised that generating hype about a product that doesn't exist actually works pretty well?
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I see the smug hipster crowd continues to expand exponentially.
@Kris91
Oh please, share your wisdom with us.
@tupelo
sorry, wrong person I replied to. a camel wide and a pale ale will have that effect.
@Kris91 Is that what we're calling the vast hordes of anti-Apple zealots that are dominating gadget blogs these days?
It's very chic to hate Apple, very hip to like Google. Yawn.
@Kris91
I know and it's rather frightening. Who would have thought that the day would come when you could spot a smug hipster not because they had something Apple but because they had something that wasn't. I can sense smug Android/Zune HD hipsters coming from blocks away. I can't wait until the Courier comes out, it's going to be Apple smugness from the 00's times 100.
@RidleyGriff
"@Kris91 Is that what we're calling the vast hordes of anti-Apple zealots that are dominating gadget blogs these days?"
Actually most of those 'anti-Apple zealots' as you put it were pretty pro Apple up until a year or so ago. The reason for the change? Disappointment and failure to innovate.
If you have two events where nothing really happens and you release the worst gadget of the year (Shuffle 3) and then you back it up with an announcement releasing a giant iPod Touch when people - rightly or wrongly - expected more the gloss is starting to come off.
Will the iPad be a commercial success? Despite my initial misgivings I think it will but in a niche way, not mass market.
But here's the thing: There's more excitement in the commenting community around products being released or hyped by ...*gasp*... Microsoft than there is products being released by Apple at the moment. That would have been utterly unheard of a year ago (and quite rightly so). That to me is pretty interesting in itself.
As for the whole vapourware thing, did it ever occur to anyone that maybe Microsoft have taken a leaf out of Apple's marketing book and realised that generating hype about a product that doesn't exist actually works pretty well?
Just a thought.
@Kris91
fixed
I see the smug hipster crowd continues to get rich exponentially.