By Colter Aaron
It seems everyone is Apple Crazy these days. Even myself. I actually shudder at times when I think about purchasing a new device from HP or Dell. Microsoft is for bankers, lawyers, engineers, and maybe those guys that only like to play video games with a keyboard, not me. Is that really true?
In these difficult times, like you, I’m trying to get the most out of my money, and I’m not so sure Apple products are worth their steep price tag. For example, I can purchase a basic Inspiron 11z for $400, but a Macbook Air starts at $1500. There’s no doubt that the Macbook Air is a superior machine to the Inspiron 11z, but is it better by $1100?
I’ve done quite a bit of music and video production at the professional level, and I wouldn’t trade Logic Pro and Final Cut coupled with a quad-core Mac Pro for anything in certain cases. But when I’m outside the studio and editing room, I’m finding less and less of a reason to pay such high prices when more and more of my personal, and even professional life, exists solely online.
Safari is no reason to stay on an Apple machine, most serious Apple users don’t even use it. Firefox and Google Chrome seem to be the standards for industry professionals. Even the beauty that was iTunes is beginning to fade as people turn to services like Pandora, Last.fm, and Lala.com for their music entertainment needs.
Microsoft isn’t the only giant to topple anymore, and security risks are becoming more of a problem for Apple as they become more popular. Yet another issue resolved by storing data in The Cloud where a team of highly competitive trend-setters are making huge leaps forward in security and recovery.
It will be very interesting in the next two or three years to see if Apple can stay on top as consumers start realizing that brand identity isn’t as important as accessibility and cost.
With the cloud gaining so much traction it is about your browser not your hardware.
By Spicer Matthews
