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Mac Mini and iPod Hi-Fi Over-Hyped?
RX8 writes "Analyst Michael Greeson takes a look at Apple's new products, the Mac Mini (Intel based) and iPod Hi-Fi and explains why they were over-hyped and how that can damage Apple. Michael explains that when you are 'an industry innovator - when your products fall short of being truly original, your own success becomes your worst enemy.'" Update: 03/04 00:07 GMT by Z : As many posters have pointed out, the article here has little to do with the synopsis. This article is mostly about the design for the mac mini and its remote, which is a fairly interesting topic. Mea culpa, folks.
Ghetto blaster is no longer a politically correct term .. boombox would be more appropriate.
Shouldn't the paranthetical (principle of parsimony) be a more common term than what it is describing? If I didn't know what Ockham's Razor was I'd be more confused, not less by parsimony...
But I guess while you're patronizing you might as well do it up right.
-1, Off-topic... I guess I should have belittled the person I was correcting. That got the guy right after me modded up as Insightful. :/
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
"Hype" is short for "hyperbole," and thus already implies an exaggeration or embellishment. It is redundant for something to be "over-hyped." Might as well say "frigidly cold" or "homeland security."