Apple Watch

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[Professor]

[Aaron]

Its called lifestyle branding. It's not new.

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[John Galt]

i agree with everything you said exploited but... are macs really great for creative types? i feel like that's just another thing they just say, considering there are more software options available on pc and there is nothing that isn't available, or equivalent, on pc that is on mac (but that's not true the other way). and it's established that they aren't the beasts of technology, that crown belongs to glorious pc master race. i hear that its better but again, it's just one of those things they say without giving reasons. it wasn't until 2009 that macOS even allowed for real support of multi-button mice. the f**k? how is that helping anyone's creativity?

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really the thing that makes everything better for stuff like that is lots of ram and high processor. ram for when you're working, high processor for when you're doing stuff like video compression. i built my machine last december and there isn't a mac in existence that has better specs than mine. 32g ram, core i7-4770k. can't recall the video processor at the moment but i have a hybrid liquid cooling system to keep it all frosty. it handles video editing and compression just wonderfully, and everything opens up super fast because i have 500gb ssd. ssds are so f**k awesome

i think it's jsut that they want to be a special different snowflake. some people like taking the train across the country instead of flying

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[The Dude]

[The Dude]

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Of course specs determine speed. The reason that Apple has similar performance for MOST people is that the closed ecosystem of Apple allows them to get performance gains, in the same way that a mid-level PC will perform the same as a next-gen console, even though the PC has far more capacity, because the console has been built and integrated by one company, and everyone who makes games for it knows that it will be played on the same machine, always, with only incremental spec differences.

But that doesn't even address capability. My phone has a custom OS on it, for instance, and it is at least twice as fast as ANY iPhone, even though it is already a year and a half old. So, again, SPECS MATTER. Just because you don't know how to exploit those specs to gain maximum performance doesn't mean that Android devices aren't better - it simply means that you aren't technically saavy, or have no interest in making your phone run the best it can. You just want something that works the same no matter what, which is totally cool. But let's not talk about performance, or technological innovation, or "how good it works" when, in fact, the performance of my nearly two year old Android phone absolutely devastates ANY iPhone, and will continue to do so for years.

It is like saying "Well, a Ferrari goes the same speed on the highway as a Corolla, therefore they are equivalent." Except in this case the Corolla costs twice as much as the Ferrari. You just aren't utilizing the device properly, which is fine if you value not having to think enough to tolerate getting ripped off. I mean it isn't even hard to make an Android phone perform amazing. It isn't hard to install a custom OS. It is insanely easy, actually. So this all goes back to my argument about Apple exploiting idiots for financial gain.

[The Comrade]