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That Awkward Moment When 'Apple Mocked Good Hardware and Poor People' (dailydot.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a DailyDot article: Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, took the stage in Cupertino, California, earlier this week to explain some of the new features and specs on the new iPad Pro. Between showing off a new display and camera, Schiller also took some digs at Windows and PC users, specifically calling out those users who are on computers more than five years old. Schiller said that 600 million people are using PCs that are over five years old. 'This is really sad,' he said.
C. Custer, reporter for Tech in Asia also didn't like Schiller's remarks. He writes: If Apple's really targeting those 600 million old PC users, it seems to have done a pretty poor job. It's been more than five years since I saw the need to upgrade my primary computer, and nothing about the iPad Pro presentation made me rethink my position at all. But of course, Apple isn't really targeting those people. That was mostly just a cheap shot, a jibe at all of us poor fools who haven't yet seen the light. That's why the audience laughed knowingly, and even applauded. "Using the same machine for five years? How barbaric! Thank god we live in civilized society, where everyone throws their gadgets out and buys new ones every two years."
C. Custer, reporter for Tech in Asia also didn't like Schiller's remarks. He writes: If Apple's really targeting those 600 million old PC users, it seems to have done a pretty poor job. It's been more than five years since I saw the need to upgrade my primary computer, and nothing about the iPad Pro presentation made me rethink my position at all. But of course, Apple isn't really targeting those people. That was mostly just a cheap shot, a jibe at all of us poor fools who haven't yet seen the light. That's why the audience laughed knowingly, and even applauded. "Using the same machine for five years? How barbaric! Thank god we live in civilized society, where everyone throws their gadgets out and buys new ones every two years."
Modern app appers know that only apps can app apps, and if 600 million LUDDITES are still using LUDDITE software, that ruins it for the rest of us app appers! Apple wants to destroy LUDDITE software and replace it with good wholesome appy app apps!
Apps!
No way!
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
So do the cores battle each other to see which one is better? Or how does that work?
Yeah I had to laugh when I identified more with the friendly/dorky/pear shaped pc guy than the metrosexual twerp. I guess they don't care about our business.
love is just extroverted narcissism
They joust prior to executing each instruction.
What a barbarian.
What a sad barbarian. If he bought a brand new Apple(tm) MacBook(r) he'd be a happy barbarian.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Does this exchange start with a civilized white-glove-slapping? I'd expect nothing but the highest quality challenges to get issued.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Wow... you can upgrade a desktop with a new high-end electron-eating graphics card, and it would outperform a laptop whose baked-in gfx chip is built for power efficiency!?
Tune in next week, when we compare cell phones to walkie-talkies!
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
"I assume this competition is that race condition thingy I've been hearing about?"
Someone ALWAYS has to bring race into the conversation! ; )