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Artist Creates Mac Shrine
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.
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.
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.