>But it has absolutely nothing to do with "luxury."
And then you proceed to describe exactly what I'd expect from a "luxury" device. Polished experience and excellent customer service. Heck, that's precisely what luxury is - not-crap and others standing by to meet your desires.
>About mediocrity – and higher aspiration.
And not mediocrity - and luxury? Seriously, what's the difference? Any smart phone / supplemental computer is very strictly a "luxury", because it's not necessary. Or does it need to be made of gold to be luxury?
>Apple is preferred because they're the only ones who are.
Does it need competition to be luxury? If I make a fromjab, spend billions developing it, sell it for millions of dollars, and polish the heck out of it, is it somehow not a luxury item if I'm the only fromjab maker in the world? What does this say about Picasso artwork? There's only one producer there.
Aaah, you're claiming luxury requires artificial value inflation, especially due to being under-produced. I can see that, and it's a usable definition. Apologies for not catching it earlier.
How many people subscribe to either of our uses of the term, I have no idea. But under that (or a similar) definition, you're entirely correct, Apple isn't luxury. Different only in the lack of (significant?) artificial inflation, and therefore less social prestige?
That's true today but may not be for long. Compared to things like the new Honeycomb task switcher and the resizable widgets iOS is starting to look stale. iOS 5 is in many ways just catching up to where Android was a year ago.
And then you proceed to describe exactly what I'd expect from a "luxury" device. Polished experience and excellent customer service. Heck, that's precisely what luxury is - not-crap and others standing by to meet your desires.
>About mediocrity – and higher aspiration.
And not mediocrity - and luxury? Seriously, what's the difference? Any smart phone / supplemental computer is very strictly a "luxury", because it's not necessary. Or does it need to be made of gold to be luxury?
>Apple is preferred because they're the only ones who are.
Does it need competition to be luxury? If I make a fromjab, spend billions developing it, sell it for millions of dollars, and polish the heck out of it, is it somehow not a luxury item if I'm the only fromjab maker in the world? What does this say about Picasso artwork? There's only one producer there.