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dionysus1999I find it annoying that BoingBoing spreads the Apple meme.
I read an article yesterday that said that Apple users are more liberal. I think that's an over-generalization, because liberals like me see through the marketing BS. Apple makes products that correspond to a certain lifestyle. It's no surprise that most of my friends don't own an Apple product. Few of my friends seem to think a product being pretty is better than having a product that can be modified (without losing a warranty) and doesn't have restriction after restriction on where you can get music, software, peripherals, etc.
But maybe this highlights why our political system is such a mess, if liberals can't see through clever marketing. I guess I prefer the type of liberal who can look beyond the obvious, and has issues with the way most money still seems to flow to old white guys with connections.
Steve Jobs is a bit like a kinder, gentler Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch (more accurately his flunkies) masticates the news into pap, adds his conservative spin and regurgitates it to the hungry conservatives. They don't worry if the information is nutritious (true), only that it goes down smooth.
Jobs has some of the same spin doctors, he just targets a different, gullible audience. Or maybe gullible's not the right word, maybe having more money than time, perhaps?
None of this negates the fact that Jobs produces useful, if overpriced, devices. If they were made in the U.S.A. I might consider purchasing them. So he's really not that much like Murdoch, whose main goal seems to be to cover the planet with his lies.
I read an article yesterday that said that Apple users are more liberal. I think that's an over-generalization, because liberals like me see through the marketing BS. Apple makes products that correspond to a certain lifestyle. It's no surprise that most of my friends don't own an Apple product. Few of my friends seem to think a product being pretty is better than having a product that can be modified (without losing a warranty) and doesn't have restriction after restriction on where you can get music, software, peripherals, etc.
But maybe this highlights why our political system is such a mess, if liberals can't see through clever marketing. I guess I prefer the type of liberal who can look beyond the obvious, and has issues with the way most money still seems to flow to old white guys with connections.
Steve Jobs is a bit like a kinder, gentler Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch (more accurately his flunkies) masticates the news into pap, adds his conservative spin and regurgitates it to the hungry conservatives. They don't worry if the information is nutritious (true), only that it goes down smooth.
Jobs has some of the same spin doctors, he just targets a different, gullible audience. Or maybe gullible's not the right word, maybe having more money than time, perhaps?
None of this negates the fact that Jobs produces useful, if overpriced, devices. If they were made in the U.S.A. I might consider purchasing them. So he's really not that much like Murdoch, whose main goal seems to be to cover the planet with his lies.
