Everybody wants an eMac
Apr. 30th, 2002 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nfotxnApple is up to some risky business once again. The new eMac is of course probably the most universally appealing machine they've built since the orignal iMac. Let's not beat around the bush, the new iMac is expensive and not hitting or aimed at even the status-quo of Mac users. The eMac is very appealing and cheap. As little as $999 to educational institutions.
That says a lot.
But maybe this strange strategy reveals Apple's pure intentions for the betterment of education? That's debateable. What they're trying to do is sell schools $1000 Apple computers when they could easily buy $500 Windows PC's instead. Of course Apple gets to reap all of the support cost, creates platform dependancy and "educates" kids to be Mac users. All the while really pissing off their public consumers by charging them a wholely virtual hardware premium.
Is this OK? Yeah, it's how Apple's stayed in business while still making superior products.
Now apple still does sell the old iMac, I'm sure once the hype of the new iMac cools off we'll see a new low-end Mac.
Yes, I am a raving closet Apple fan boy.
That says a lot.
But maybe this strange strategy reveals Apple's pure intentions for the betterment of education? That's debateable. What they're trying to do is sell schools $1000 Apple computers when they could easily buy $500 Windows PC's instead. Of course Apple gets to reap all of the support cost, creates platform dependancy and "educates" kids to be Mac users. All the while really pissing off their public consumers by charging them a wholely virtual hardware premium.
Is this OK? Yeah, it's how Apple's stayed in business while still making superior products.
Now apple still does sell the old iMac, I'm sure once the hype of the new iMac cools off we'll see a new low-end Mac.
Yes, I am a raving closet Apple fan boy.
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Date: 2002-04-30 11:01 pm (UTC)Where did your father and I go wrong? Why can't you just accept the PC and be like all the other kids? Do you want to hurt us? Don't you think we hear the whispers behind our backs from the other parents?
"They are the ones who have a MAC LOVER as a son. God, how do they live with themselves?"
isn't sleep depravation fun for the whole family?
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Date: 2002-05-01 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-01 06:36 am (UTC)Does *anybody* use the mouse that ships with their computer?
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Date: 2002-05-01 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-05-01 06:10 pm (UTC)How would you like to be extorted today?
Date: 2002-05-01 07:25 am (UTC)Apple haven't really understood the edu market since the early '90s. Luckily for them, no one else gets it either.
Their "wholely virtual hardware premium" isn't much different than Microsoft's equally virtual software premium. A G4 chip, a grossly-inflated software license fee. It's still the same hole in your wallet. To illustrate, here's a comparison of the eMac versus two similar PC's:
Source: some tech rag. Based on sitting in the same room with product while
drinking liter of Mountain Dew, eating box of Oreos, and
flipping through stack of porn mags.
Re: How would you like to be extorted today?
Date: 2002-05-01 10:28 am (UTC)Re: How would you like to be extorted today?
Date: 2002-05-01 11:31 am (UTC)Re: How would you like to be extorted today?
Date: 2002-05-02 12:01 am (UTC)