New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

For the price of a Ferrari you could get ten Toyota Corollas that's so crazy.

that gold bullion is nice, but picture yourself taking a bath in risotto

get a case to hide your shame imo

also, gold is the acceptable choice

― mh, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 10:16 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as of last week i am rocking the white and gold lolhueg 6+

WHITE GOLD WIELDER

lol not every day you get to hear a thomas covenant joke

makes me feel almost... unclean

For the price of a Ferrari you could get ten Toyota Corollas that's so crazy.

the problem with this blistering takedown is that you can't dip a Corolla in gold and get a car that is the performance equivalent of a Ferrari

feel like my three brothers and my dad are the only people in the world who make those jokes xp

For the price of a Ferrari you could get ten Toyota Corollas that's so crazy.

the problem with this blistering takedown is that you can't dip a Corolla in gold and get a car that is the performance equivalent of a Ferrari

― DJP, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:41 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A Hermes handbag costs as much as 20 Cole Haans! The $800 Air Jordans are made of the same stuff as the $80 Nike basketball shoes!

you say this like those things aren't also stupid

Would it be toolish to buy a $17,000 Apple watch? Of course, but the world is full of tools.

hey off-topic but any of you have any luck selling an old iphone for a decent price? even one in somewhat poor shape? my in-laws gave us their at&t iphone 5 and we put it on craigslist but it is just sitting there as 15 new posts appear everyday selling old iphones

who will stand up for the tools with more money than sense

you say this like those things aren't also stupid

LOL. otm.

Would it be toolish to buy a $17,000 Apple watch? Of course, but the world is full of tools.

Wait, does the watch also have a fold out lil' knife, scissors, screwdriver and saw? Because I would totally pay for that.

All I'm saying is that people will buy it. And the $17,000 price tag also helps the tools who can't afford $17,000 decide to buy the one that's "only" $600 or $400 or whatever.

what a deal. and 50 ms!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCZ-nJ7XdmE

The only watch I care about

"wearables" seem cool to me but I don't want to wear a watch, they make my wrists and they scratch my laptop because I rest my palms and elbows when I type. BUT I wear glasses, what was so bad about google glass? really I just want to be able to read something during a boring meeting without anyone knowing, or ideally play video games (do they follow my gaze to let me point and click?)

make my wrists *sweaty*

Serious thought: how about if Apple sold the stupid $17,000 version and pledged its entire price to charity? That way high profile idiots would be clamoring to have one, everyone would see them wearing it, it would advertise the dumb cheap(er) watch, and it would help people. A win all around.

Apple confirmed that all three editions of the Apple Watch will ship with 8GB of internal storage, according to 9to5Mac. Apple Watch users will be limited to up to 2GB of songs and up to 75MB of photos that are locally stored on the device and can be listened to or viewed without a paired iPhone.

Lol

I get that rich people will throw money at all sorts of crazy hooja-dooja's, but DJP's point still stands. Why would someone spend $17K on virtually the same kind of product that can be had for $500?

The reason TAG Heuer is such a luxury brand is because, to my knowledge, you can't buy the same watch with a nylon band for a cheaper price. They don't dumb down their brand name. It's a status symbol because only so many can afford the item at all.

But selling the same watch in a gold or an aluminum format - you're only going to get rich people who care if their amplifiers go to 11 or not. It doesn't tell the time any better, or unlike a Ferrari to a Corolla, go any faster.

Will their functionality go dead when they are ripped of my wrist?

Well, aside from the Hermes bag example I gave (in which the added "performance" value is zero), 95% of the "performance" in luxury goods is just disguised conspicuous consumption anyway.

Can you get a cheap Hermes bag at JCPenny? I'll be able to get one of these Apple Watches at Walmart.

You can get cheap Nikes at Walmart and spend 10-20x as much on limited edition Nikes. Keep arguing with capitalism about itself though.

When I was 11 I become obsessed with the idea of sending out my N64 to this company that would chrome plate it for like $250

I was gonna be the only kid in town with a chrome N64

That would have been sick

Why didn't I do that

wait was there actually a company that did that specific service?

You must not have known any gamers growing up

The N64 didn't come out until I was packing up to go to college.

It was a cool game system and there were some really good games for it

The 64 stood for 64-bit, which was how you played video games back then

http://blog.pricecharting.com/2014/04/stevesesy-foxdata-n64-controllers.html

Wait, there were game systems that had more than one bit?

Back then man we just had two games -- "Ball" and "Stick." And we didn't call ourselves gamers, man, we just played for the love.

When I was 11 I become obsessed with the idea of sending out my N64 to this company that would chrome plate it for like $250

― 龜, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:12 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck yeah

I walked by a car that was 100% murdered out when I was on vacation last year. It was the most amazing matte black paint job, completely impractical, and it was pretty sweet

why would someone have bought a N64 when they already had the far superior SNES

man it was boss when original Zelda came out because it was gold plated, made all other games look weak

yeah, my neighbor had the gold plated original for NES. it made me feel bad about my late console lifetime purchased grey cart version.

yeah I had the gold plated. It was like having the god game.

Well, aside from the Hermes bag example I gave (in which the added "performance" value is zero), 95% of the "performance" in luxury goods is just disguised conspicuous consumption anyway.

Yeah but it is disguised is the important bit. Even if they could Ferrari wouldn't make a version with cloth seats for a 20th of the price. With Apple it's pretty blatant: "the strap alone costs as much as an iMac why because you will pay it, mug"

Still, people bought the black MacBook and that was exactly the same deal.

hey off-topic but any of you have any luck selling an old iphone for a decent price? even one in somewhat poor shape? my in-laws gave us their at&t iphone 5 and we put it on craigslist but it is just sitting there as 15 new posts appear everyday selling old iphones

When my wife and I got 5S's a year and a half ago I sold both of our 4s using Glyde. It was super simple, we got $200 for each of them, and both sold within two days.

LOL at anyone surprised people will pay a lot of money for luxury goods. Especially from a company who has sold their brand's computers for way more than any competitors.

LOL at people who perpetually confuse/conflate "surprise" with "disdain"

LOL at anyone surprised by Adam's post. gosh DJP you sure are surprised a bunch today.

People seem to forget that Apple has always (or at least the past 20 years) marketed itself as the status symbol brand of consumer electronics, this is why I confuse disdain with surprise.

so you're incoherent because people forget something about how apple has not actually marketed itself. am i getting this right?