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In reply to the discussion: Jimmy Kimmel Proves: Apple’s Magic Is In The Brainwash [View all]jp11
(2,104 posts)61. The idea here is that there are people who ignore facts like you've stated
and praise something because it is an Apple product even when it is the exact same thing they've been using.
Yes prior experience would lend a person to give credit or have some loyalty to a brand/product line but if that loyalty isn't backed up and maintained all you are doing is giving up your reason and will to something based on previous good feelings or your own expectations.
So 'Or maybe they have a good product' doesn't answer why people saw the iphone4 which some owned & had in their hands already that they were told was the iphone5 and decided it was faster, and lighter than the exact one they had.
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"I'll buy anything that's shiny and has an Apple logo on it". - from The Onion's "iWheel" clip.
HopeHoops
Sep 2012
#1
Naomi Klein's excellent book "No Logo" goes into this new type of branding quite well
arcane1
Sep 2012
#2
In other words, it is like, and responded to, like any other brand name product
MadHound
Sep 2012
#22
My desktop is a 9 yr old Dell. Never had a crash or virus. No problem to have to go to a store for.
Honeycombe8
Sep 2012
#69
I know. That's because not enuf people buy them to be worth it to put a virus in it.
Honeycombe8
Sep 2012
#72
In all honesty, the obsessiveness of "Apple haters" far outweighs that of Apple lovers.
Bonobo
Sep 2012
#44
Apple Announces New iPhone With N-Word On Back Knowing Customers Will Buy It Anyway
joeybee12
Sep 2012
#52
This has nothing to do with Apple. It has to do with the fact that people are morons.
onehandle
Sep 2012
#64