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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-16 17:03, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/16/25 7:30 PM, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-16 4:59 p.m., Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Out of curiosity, are you at all interested in what he actually said?   
   >>   
   >> Being born on the same day as Steve Jobs got me interested in the guy.   
   >> I've seen enough documentaries and read enough articles about him to   
   >> know what he said and what he was thinking. He indeed wanted his   
   >> products to be priced more to give the impression that they were   
   >> luxury items, regardless of whether you want to acknowledge that. It   
   >> was that kind of thinking which resulted in the Macintosh which cost   
   >> way more than everything else, offered little to no upgradeability and   
   >> managed to do a lot less than the competition.   
   >   
   >   
   > Jobs did a great job steering Apple into what it is today.  And yet who   
   > in the hell would pay them for a fuckin' thing?   
   >   
      
   Empirically, lots of people.   
      
   That's what makes them so successful.   
      
   They produce something so good that people are willing to buy it even   
   when there are less expensive choices for which they could opt.   
      
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