From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo"
 wrote:
>Soooo.. then I went and priced out some of the ipods and realized these are
>not toys that kids can afford, so the question becomes is apple the new sign
>of the yuppie?

They're a sign that people's tastes change as they get older. One example
is the difference between the cars favoured by young people and the cars
favoured by older people. As I said to Rich recently:

Given a choice between something that looks good, works intuitively and
performs adequately, or something that is subtly lacking in design flair
and ease of use even though it is technically superior on paper, it was an
easy decision. I shouldn't have been surprised, I recall making the same
decision on my last PDA purchase - a choice between a Palm OS PDA or a
Windows CE PDA. Come to think of it, my most recent appliance purchase was
decided the same way - I bought a Playstation 2 (new slim version) instead
of an Xbox.

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