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Kenneth Reitz
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<header> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="whats-in-a-design.html"
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rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to What's In a Design?">What's In a Design?</a></h1> </header>
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<abbr class="published" title="2009-08-09T05:16:00">
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Sun 09 August 2009
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<p>In <a href="./category/Life.html">Life</a>.
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<p>Disclaimer: I am <strong>not</strong> an Apple fanboy. Apple makes a fortune off
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of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.squidoo.com/sheeple">speeple</a>. An Apple FanBoy
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blindly follows everything the cult leader, Steve Jobs has to say.
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They go out and purchase every iProduct that Apple realeases and
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does so with a smile on their face, not realizing that over the
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course of four years, they have
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<a class="reference external" href="http://calacanis.com/2009/08/08/the-case-against-apple-in-five-parts/">spent about $20,000</a>
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on Apple products alone. They leak photos of an upcoming product
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with incredibly low resolution so the masses can pick and decipher
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the image, spending countless hours just trying to imagine what
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that mysterious new button does. And people do it! They completely
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take advantage, but rightfully so. Who could blame them? They are,
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after all, a business. It would be foolish for them not to, because
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that FanBoy pays thousands of dollars to watch a 3 hour long
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commercial, and they love it! They love OSX for no apparent reason
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other than they are told to. They go out and buy every single new
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iPhone the day that it comes out, when there's clearly nothing
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wrong with the one they had. Year after year, they pour more and
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more money into their investment in nothing more than a brand that
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they thing will change who they are as a person. They want to be
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Steve Jobs. They write endless posts about how much money they
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spend on Apple products every month, and just can't wait to get
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their hands on the next one. This is not that post and I am not
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that guy. <img alt="image" src="http://pcmacsmackdown.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/apple-logo1.jpg" /> I do, however, believe that my recently purchased
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<a class="reference external" href="http://kennethreitz.com/blog/i-finally-got-a-macbook/">13" Unibody MacBook Pro is the greatest laptop ever manufactured</a>
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on Earth to date. But not because Apple made it. That's irrelevant.
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Now please, don't get me wrong: I love Apple. And that's because,
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they have a <strong>superior</strong> operating system and they put an
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extraordinary amount of design and thought into every nook and
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cranny of every system that they release. This system is designed
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well. <em>Incredibly</em> well. On a side note, I firmly believe that OSX
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is the greatest desktop operating system of all time, and I see no
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chance of this changing any time soon. From many different
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standpoints (End User, Prosumer, Developer, Newbie) this holds
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true. I am a fan and follower of one thing and one thing only:
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Design. And, for now, Apple hands-down has the greatest sense of
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design, both software and hardware in my opinion. But if something
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else comes along made by someone else, I'll be sure to give that a
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try with an open mind. :)</p>
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