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• Friday, November 9, 2007 08:21 AM

  First Class *Is* Happiest Class

  My point, Jake, comes directly from the post you attacked titled "Apple encourages the smugness" by Thadeus Crumb. Granted, you were talking about his comment on Intel boards in Macs, but the rest of the article had more to do with selling a marketing ideal.

  Here are some snippets so you know what I'm talking about:

  "It works for them... To get people to pay exorbitant margins, you have to make them feel somewhat dirty and smelly if they don't...In the case of a first class section of the airplane, though, the guy who pays $300 extra for a glass of brandy and 4 extra inches of space for his butt is directly subsidizing my seat in coach. It's hard to see how Mac users giving Steve Jobs more money than his machines actually deserve benefits anyone other than Steve Jobs..."

  So, what I'm saying, is that those people in first class will rate their experiences higher because they felt pampered, while my seat in coach wasn't designed to make me feel like in some elite club so I wouldn't rate it in the same way.

  You were sold on a product that supposedly looks nice and behaves with some sort of advanced mind set and you're in some sort of coolness club because you bought a Mac, etc. So when you're asked how you feel about the Mac, do you think your human mind is going to do anything but confirm your purchase? It would be similar to cognitive dissonance, except for the fact that you probably do like your Mac. But, don't for a second think that you have not been influenced by an ad campaign specifically designed to make you feel like you are superior to us Neanderthal PC users.

  Plus I hope we're not comparing any OS's to Vista, since it's simply unfair. Vista is the biggest piece of crap ever. At least so far.

  And as far as my comment about the one-button mouse: do most Macs not come standard with a one button mouse? You could ask the same question about my PC, except PC "standards" are a lot looser. So, when I built my PC, I choose the exact mouse that would make me happiest, not the one that Jobs thinks I should use. Basically, every Window's machine I've touched in the past few years has had a wheel button mouse, and not one Mac I've ever seen. I guess your just a different kind of Mac user.

  jason.

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