Vi tok aldri stilling til om Theis bruker Apple. Han har i alle fall bygget opp sin kommandosentral med maskiner og deler han samler fra haugene på Skrapen. Men av dette skrapet setter han sammen nye maskiner, som han selger til kompiser. Slik skaffer han kapital til å handle på SpyShop – og kanskje en ny Mac i ny og ne.
Lurer på hva han ville sagt om dette angrepet på Apple:
If anything, it’s design and marketing seek to brainwash. Let’s start with the design of the stores. They look like a room out of the Death Star more than a place I would want to buy something.
What galls me the most about them is their slogan – Think Different. This is as Orwellian as it gets, considering that customization is the enemy of all things Apple.
They want complete control over all their products at all times. If you need a new part, you can only get it from Apple. Not to mention that their design is pretty exclusively uniform – bright, clean whites, blacks, and the occasional grays. Much like stormtrooper uniforms. I come back to the evil empire again because it truly is what Apple designs most resemble.
What’s worse about the slogan is that I’ve never encountered such groupthink as I do with Apple users. Everything Apple makes is the best, easiest-to-use product. No questions asked. When you suggest there might be some issues such as the iPhone not being able to make calls, you are completely shot down. Criticism is not allowed in the house of Apple (as proven by its recent attempts to censor any and all critics).
Finally, we get to the worst of it: Apple users tend to think that the company cares about them. They think of Apple as their friend, far more than just a company that wants their money.