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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
As a musician and recording engineer, please stop dissemenating this old wive's tale. Macs WERE the choice for recording artists and content creators back when those types weren't always geeky or tech savvy maybe 10 years ago. Not any more. More movies are made on PCs than Macs, most audio is done on PCs, and most schools that teach media feature labs full of HP, Dell, and IBM PCs running Windows. Go tour Full Sail University, Dallas Sound Lab, or any commercial studio out there today. I promise, its alot more ASIO equipment then Audio Units. I used to use a hella expensive Pro Tools Mix Mac rig with big bucks in farm cards, etc. Now I use Nuendo on a PC with virtual plugin accelerator cards. Apple saw the creatives starting to leave, and bought Logic and made it Mac only to try to stem the exodus, but do you know any pro studios running Logic? This is 2009, not the 90s.
Apologies, by media types, I meant more in the way of journalists. Of course, all don't use Apple but when I see a news programme on TV and you can see the Macs in the background, or a test of uploading professionally recorded news media via an Apple laptop on something as mainstream as "The Gadget Show"... well, I don't think they specially bought the laptop just to record that segment of the show. It would go some way to explaining the possibly unknowingly biased reporting of Apple and competitors. Why do movies come with iPhone apps but a bigger platform like Symbian doesn't (and I'm a Symbian/Blackberry user with no intention of getting an iPhone).

Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
And in the US, the iPhone is considered cheap. Its $199 on contract, while most high end devices have gone for $300+ on contract until now. The Vertu devices aren't popular, and I rarely see them outside of magazine ads. Not a good comparison to the iPhone at all.
I guess I have a more UK/Euro-centric view here.
Over here, many people are used to getting a free phone on contract, or paying a minimal amount (eg. $30-50) to upgrade. The 3GS with 32GB costs 175GBP on a 24 month contract (275gbp on an 18 month contract), and the other operators getting the phone won't be reducing contract prices or length. Personally I have trouble with an 18th month contract, and don't want to be on a 24 month one at all...! O2 are currently giving away Sky Sports and Sky News free for 3 months on there (I hope this will be available on the N900 even as the standard subscription of 5GBP per month).

Source for cost of phone: o2
http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/paymonth.html

The point is, iPhone is seen as expensive and exclusive here in the UK. From my point of view I see it as more for the poseurs, the pretentious and the deluded, but that's something else entirely

I've known people personally who have had Vertus and Artes, and they are the kind who would have expensive watches like IWC and Audemars Piguet. However, one of them who is more practical, at one point had an N95 and an iPhone.

Last edited by Thor; 2009-11-11 at 16:52.