| Tuesday, September 10, 2002 |
21:49 - Not exactly a ringing coup
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,509951,00.asp
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From what I'm hearing, the Gateway Profile 4 ads are getting just as much derision from the public as the "Switch" ads did at their unveiling, and without any of the popular grassroots support in response. The Profile 4's attack on the iMac looks even to the casual observer like a rather desparate gambit by a panicking company-- one who seems to have completely missed the point of the iMac's design, even though it's now admitted quite freely that what it's trying to do is eclipse the iMac out of existence through the force of "bigger hard drive!" and "Bigger screen!" and "Cheaper!" Anybody who has been paying any attention at all can discern that the iMac's screen and hard drives are better quality, widescreen in the case of the 17", and comes with things like-- oh, I don't know-- DVD drives. And the whole point of the design is its fully adjustable neck, not just one that scoots up and down on a tiny little angle swingarm, like a checkbox item on a spec sheet that had to be filled in on a minimal budget. It looks like a pretender, even in the eyes of someone who only knows the name "Apple" from the Ellen Feiss ad or oblique Simpsons references.
And on that note, here's a recent Stephen Katt cartoon from eWeek:
Yeah, Katt's a Mac guy. But this is still funny.
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