On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo <die...@gnome.org> wrote: > On 4/11/09, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: >> When people buy a Mac, they aren't just buying a machine they are buying >> into a lifestyle (or so they want you to believe. :-) and into an exciting >> ecosystem of "beautiful things". We need to do something similar in our >> approach to GNOME 3.0. Specifically, we should try to do a number of >> things: >> > > Agree. Mac doesn't even run lots of apps by usual windows users, yet > they don't mind because they have something 'cooler'. They buy status. > Now, we have the disadvantage of not costing more money :-) (refer to > all those analysis about free (not software limited) perceived as > worse, etc).
They primarily buy an excellent user experience. The status comes from that. If you haven't internalized that the primary reason for their success is the beginning-to-end excellent user experience, and thinking it is about cost or status or... whatever... you're not grokking why apple is successful. Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list