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Artist Creates Mac Shrine

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-some-people-do dept.

uucee writes "Wired has a story on an artist's Mac shrine. Apparently a big Mac fan, the photographer "tried to persuade his assistant to get an Apple tattoo for a photo shoot. She refused, opting for a temporary one instead." No word of a Macquarium being part of the collection." I like the idea of a desk built out of Macs.

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  1. trekkies by happystink · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That quote where the guy says he thinks the assistant will get an apple tattoo when she's more into macs, that is just so annoying, it changes this guy from "dork with sort of neat hobby" to "aggravating fanatic", and it reminds me of the dental assistant in Trekkies who admits that she dresses up Star Trek-style because the dentist threatened to fire her if she didn't.

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    See the "..for smart people" banners Wired runs here? Look elsewhere guys.

  2. Re:Is it just me by phillymjs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, when you've got an entire section of your site called 'Cult of Mac' (the name of which I mildly object to), you've got to update it rather regularly.

    Plus Wired has its share of Mac fans on the staff-- read the colophon sometime, it's like the freakin' Macintosh Product Guide. :-)

    ~Philly

  3. in some strange way... by buzban · · Score: 3, Insightful
    i'm looking forward to when my ibook is part of that kind of collection. it's sort of funny how things look so sleek and modern and neat when they first come out and then look absolutely dated 15 yrs later.

    i guess the most interesting ones to me are the macs (or any other machine) that retain their sex appeal even after all that time...and there aren't too many of those...

  4. I think I get it now by van+der+Rohe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I used to think Macs and their users were just sort of silly, but after more and more articles like this I think I'm starting to understand the mindset a little better.
    It's not really about using a computer any more than, for example, driving a Volkswagen Bug is about driving a car. Issues like functionality, efficiency, etc. are completely secondary to issues like sense of community, warm fuzziness, etc.
    Do you think the average Bug driver would scrap their car if the gas mileage was worse than an SUV? It's not about mileage - it's about round.
    Do you think the average Mac zealot cares that OSX.2 is slow? It's not about speed - it's about blue.

    This isn't really a dis, although I'll admit it's a world I don't begin to understand.

    1. Re:I think I get it now by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Parent was marked as a troll, which isn't quite fair -- it's abrasive, but mostly it shows a lack of comprehension.

      Here's the deal: the vast majority of Mac users, including me, are interested in functionality, efficiency, etc. Almost all of us have had substantial exposure to the Windows world (I work in a shop that's just about 50/50, and administer both) and have decided that for our own uses, Macs just work better. The aesthetics are a bonus. A nice bonus, sure, just like it's a nice bonus when you drive a car that gets good performance and good mileage, is highly reliable, and looks good too. But I'd use a PC without regard to aesthetics if there were any PC OS that delivered the ease of use, functionality, and reliability I get with Mac OS X, at a substantially lower cost. Except ... there isn't.

      The significant thing about guys like this photographer is not that they're representative of Mac users, because they're not, but that they exist at all. The Mac fails to inspire that kind of fanatic loyalty in 99 44/100 % of Mac users -- but Windows fails inspire that kind of fanatic loyalty in 100% of PC users. Think about that for a while.

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      The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
  5. Re:Why???? by flash010 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First, you make a product that really just seems to work well. In fact, it works so well that millions of people credit it with their successes and careers. So you have a core group of people who love and appreciate this product.

    Then, you get a huge group of other people to attack this product. It works best if these people have never had to rely on the product, or they use another, markedly inferior one.

    The first group circles the wagons, and adopts a seige mentality. Their joy in the product becomes defense of the product.

    It's not such a mysterious phenomenon. Gun owners, religious groups, Doom vs. Duke Nukem, Tivo, cattle vs. sheep ranching -- you name it.