Who are these clamoring masses of Apple groupies and why do they gleefully pay a premium for their beloved devices when other brands of Smart phones provide as many, or more features for better prices? Why Apple? Well I’m sure there are detailed consumer profile reports out on the internet dissecting the psyche of the Apple buyer. But my shortcut answer: Apple is Cool and if cool is high on your priority list, if you can’t live without being thought of by others as cool, if you must be one of the beautiful people, there’s apparently only one choice. Money be damned. Competing features be damned. Full speed ahead, Admiral, and damn the Jones; we’ll leave those suckers in our wake.
From a 2008 Metafacts brochure advertising their Apple user profile report for that year:
Apple's
customers are like no others — a rich blend of the most sociologically elite
with those seeking elegant, simple computing. Apple's panache has enabled them
to maintain some of the highest margins in the industry, while also sustaining
a brand loyalty level which is the envy of many.
… Apple's
users have a unique profile in the ways they use their personal computers.
Unlike users of Intel/Windows computers, a significant portion of Apple's users
are active, exploratory, avant-garde and early adopters. The activities they
enjoy are unique in the way that they more-often incorporate rich media such as
video and music as well as more-active procurer behavior than many more-passive
Windows users.
And of course
what does Apple have in common with our current President? Well, the coolness
factor of course. Obama is an Apple while Romney is a Droid. Obama/Apple have
got coolness locked up – copyrighted in fact. And Coolness = Likeyness. The
American consumer cannot resist Likeyness. In America, Likeyness is a winner.
“Obama
supporters are like no others – a rich blend of the most sociologically elite
with those seeking elegant, but otherwise empty, leadership.”
November 6,
2012 – the Likeyness Election is Coming to a Polling Place Near You.
1 comment:
Offhand I think of three Apple users I know, none of whom are particularly adept at computers etc, but all of whom are yellow dog Democrats. Perhaps one is cool, but two others are definitely not.One Apple owner does not have a cell phone.
I stopped using Apples in the university lab in the 1990s when they crashed all the time. PCs did not crash, so I stayed with PCs.
Apparently the POTUS is not up with the latest i-phone doodads. We have something in common.
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