james; on the internet.

lol a mac haterz

dfhannah:

wearedevo:

dfhannah:

yr pathetic vitriol for a share of the market that is less than ten per cent is hilarious! how afraid you must feel. get over it!

It’s got nothing to do with vitriol, or market share, or even Apple as a company or the products that they make, which are often excellent on their own merits. I just don’t understand why so many otherwise intelligent people revel in drinking the Apple koolaid like they’re part of some kind of creepy cult. It’s just a brand, and a corporation for fucks sake. I feel no particular allegiance to any platform or brand of product* (I know: go me!) so it baffles me when I hear about people lining up for the opening of a new Apple store, like the one at Chermz. Do they know that higher quality products are available for a fifth of the cost? If they did know, would they care? These things are supposed to be tools, not lifestyle choices or an identity implant. And it’s not like I’m anticonsumerist or opposed to loving stuff in general, when it is good stuff, as Apple stuff often is. But the blind devotion some people have to this company (an Apple sticker on your bumper? on your PC notebook? Really?) just allows them to gouge you with prices like the one in the previous post. Fools and their money though, as they say.

We recently established that one of the three economics terms I actually know is Veblen good. Do mac products qualify?



*Except tabasco sauce.

but - i am pretty sure computer cultism started with PCs. like windows 95. remember that? it seems you have singled out some cult conveniently not your own. curious.

I’m pretty sure you singled out the cult in your original post to which wearedevo was replying.  What he or she said would apply equally to other cultish brand allegiances which would definitely not include Windows in the present day.  No idea about Windows ‘95, but that’s a little irrelevant now.

lol a mac haterz

dfhannah:

yr pathetic vitriol for a share of the market that is less than ten per cent is hilarious! how afraid you must feel. get over it!

Ditto Radiohead haterz.

!!! & Temper Trap & Passion Pit

Had two back-to-back school night gigs this week. The first was !!! with support from The Temper Trap (found that out a couple of hours before). After a 2 and a half train delay, the end of Temper Trap’s set was better than expected. I’d never heard them before and had pretty low expectations. The highlight was receiving a bluetooth message from them while they were on stage, it was one of their songs.  !!! were the opposite; high expectations and little fulfilment. The set was over 80% unreleased material (with nothing from Louden Up Now) and the musicianship was just just….bleh. It’s great when bands progress and move on, but sorry, !!!, I don’t love you as much any more. Plus Nic Offer has cut his hair. Bad move.

The Passion Pit gig was cheap and in a super fun maze-of-a-building (Truman Breweries). I was only interested in their EP, think they played 3 songs from it, that was lots of fun, plus another I enjoyed. The rest was a bit meh. They sound much better on record, but that’s a fairly harsh judgement.