No, For many people it is ENTIRELY rational behaviour. Most people are not like us (who jailbreak iphone and touch and tinker with OS X). Most people want a consumer project. They want something they can switch on and use, not spend the rest of your life trying to configure and tweak. For nokia, for example, the Ovi Store is a big improvement, but STILL not as easy to grasp as using the app store or iTunes on an iPhone. That is what sells. The fashion thing is a nice adjiunct for those who care.
Sometimes it is about fashion, but it's not always. When the first iPhone came out, I didn't want one because it didn't have all the features I wanted. But it didn't make me admire the package of UI and slickness any less, because it worked for those who did. > But there are other products that are also well designed and have 100% > functionality, they're just not as fashionable. I think it has more > to do with some people wanting to be followers of fashion (and a > fashion item is something that Apple products have become since SJ's > return) and then finding that fashionable straight jacket is too > tight. It's just not rational behaviour. > > > Scot > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- Darren Stephens MBCS CITP School of Arts and New Media University of Hull Scarborough Campus Filey Road Scarborough t: +441723357360 e: [email protected] ***************************************************************************************** To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://www.hull.ac.uk/legal/email_disclaimer.html ***************************************************************************************** - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
