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Originally Posted by 709
re: chucker
But it still doesn't feel like it, does it? There's still so much holdover resentment wrt Apple always doing is cleaner, prettier and most importantly, better.
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Oh, absolutely. Even though iPhones can be found in all sorts of social classes, and even though you'll have a hard-time walking into a tram where there isn't at least a handful of people with them, there's a notion that those using them in public are 'snobs'.
A big problem Apple hasn't solved at all is the widespread misunderstanding of what design is. I still see plenty of so-called 'design' or 'designer' products which are neither well-designed nor otherwise justified in costing more than their 'non-design' counterparts.
Because of that incomplete or incorrect understanding, people resent Apple products for being 'overpriced', and conclude that their buyers must be idiots.