Steve de Mena <steve@stevedemena.com> wrote in
news:3vmdnUwFnJqlwgHanZ2dnUVZ_tvinZ2d@giganews.com :

> I'll point out that they have sold millions of these things, and
> overall the reaction has been extremely positive.
>
> Steve
>

iPhone buyers are appliance operators buying a WebTV appliance that's
totally restricted and easy-to-use. They outnumber computer geeks by
10,000,000:1 and are very susceptable to the massive iPxxx advertising
empire that made very mediocre, closed system, box office music boxes into
the most popular music sales machine in history. It's a tribute to the
power of propaganda and marketing, not of technology.

iPxxxx, any of them, shows what good propaganda can do and, I'm sure, is
very carefully watched by government propagandists worldwide.

Many of the 500 iPhone-owing geeks are members of these newsgroups. I can
tell that because they know usenet exists, putting them in the top 0.2
percentile of internet users. Most internet users have no idea usenet even
exists.

The effectiveness of the propagandists working for Apple is very apparent,
even to the most naive persons, in the absolute brand loyalty that is seen
here, to the point of being comical....or pathetic, I'm not sure which. If
Apple came out with a laptop that had a keyboard and screen that lit up to
an Apple logo and did nothing else, the loyalists would defend it to their
deaths as the finest computer equipment every created.

Apple doesn't even have to waste money putting in a consumer swappable
battery in its equipment any more. The loyalists think that's a "feature".