Terrible news for Apple fans

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=210212

 

oh please. its like the $100 computer. dont hate on a company for trying to help the poor. when was the last time you fed the poor? a little too good for it?

 

lol the ghetto mac

 

Helping the poor is great. Doing through the promotion of a guy that stands for nothing but murder, gangs, and crime is another thing. Just do a little browsing here www.50cent.com

Is that the kind of image you want on ANYTHING you are associated with?

 

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Makes good business sense to me, sell cheap computers to people who otherwise couldn't afford them, get good press for helping the poor, and get a whole bunch of people who otherwise would never touch a mac to use one. Not only that but they are going after the younger folks by tying it in with one of their pop-icons... For the record though, I can't stand rap or hip-hop and would sincerely like my state to be in the news for something other than another rapper or other semi-famous person getting shot in Detroit...

 

i love rap, real rap not the stuff 50 cent puts out, that is pure garbage and so is most everthing else rap on the radio. but that is not the point, the point is that there are many people who cant offord a computer, and computers are getting more and more essencial for school. so making a very low cost computer makes sence, dosent matter if apple makes it, if 50 cent makes it, or who ever. the fact is there is a market for it, and I think its a good idea.

 

Well the point is that millions of teenagers across the United States, especially inner-city kids, like the 'whole nothing but murder, gangs, and crime' thing. And to be honest, many of them consider 50-cent as a role model, sadly. Though you can make the point that most low-income/innercity kids have experience murder, gangs, and crime at one point or another so it probably isn't knew to them anywho.

Apple + 50 Cent could be a great marketing strategy for Apple, providing low-cost computers with a great operating system to teenagers who either can't afford a $500 Mac Mini + KMD or teenagers who are simply sucked into the whole 'Rap/MTV America' culture and simply want to follow their rap icon. I know many many kids who bought iPod's just because they saw Kanye West wearing one on SNL or girls who wanted iPod Mini's because they saw Paris Hilton wearing one in a playboy photoshoot.

As a 14 year-old teenager and a proud owner of a 15.4" Macbook Pro, I can tell you that if you stick a Rap icon or any other pop-culture figure on a product, kids will buy them. It's simply youth-america today, or in any sense, human nature to have or do what people think is 'cool' at the time. (And no my parents didn't buy the laptop for me, I purchased it with my own hard-worked money which I recieved from managing my own online Website Design Studio so no, I'm not spoiled lol.)

Hey, if you were an inner-city teenager who had a PentiumII computer that rarely even booted up and then saw your favorite rap icon along with hundreds of other kids endorsing/purchasing a cheap Mac computer, wouldn't you want one too?

No, I'm not trying to endorse or encourage rap, violence, drugs, or crime, I'm simply trying to outline Apple's marketing strategy if or when they choose to create a 50-cent consumer product. lol and no, I'm not a hardcore hip-hop/rap listener, because its all about COLDPLAY haha

 

My favorite post in the Macrumors Forum:

"Will it be bulletproof?"

ahahahhahahahaha

 

"every child a laptop, every junky a mac" ...

never mind.

 

Great buisness move

 

How does owning a $1700 piece of electronic hardware give the owner any credibility when talking about the buying habits of inner-city, urban kids?

 

Well for starters, it was $2500 maxed out. Also, I don't have the answer to your question because I don't presume to have any extra credibility over anyone else just because I have a Macbook Pro. Though, knowing many inner - city, urban kids, I may have some experience in knowing what they might like. My statement was just an open thought, sorry if I made it look like it was a confirmed truth/law.

So in conclusion, I'm extremly sorry if I offended you in anyway, I was just putting in my $0.02

 

well I doubt there will ever be any 50-cent mac stuff, if inner-city kids want a cheap laptop why cant they just get the $100 laptop they are making for other poor places?

 

Honestly I'm surprised no one's said 'if inner city kids want laptops all they have to do is steal one.' =x

Anyway, I don't like it a whole lot, but I do have to agree, it's a smart business move. Anything to increase apple's popularity.

 

The college I am going to attend this fall recommends 1 of the following 4 computers. I have never used an Apple. Can anybody give me there thoughts on which computer would be the Best one to use???

Computer Options
Basic Laptop Computer Packages
* Apple MacBook, 1.83 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 13.3-inch color screen, combo drive, 80 GB hard drive, Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950
* Dell Latitude D620 T2500, 2.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 14.1-inch color WXGA+ screen, combo drive, 80 GB hard drive, Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950

High-end Laptop Computer Packages
* Apple MacBook Pro, 2.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM, a 15.4-inch color screen, SuperDrive, 100 GB hard drive, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Graphics Processor with 128 MB of GDDR3 Memory
* Dell Latitude D620 T2500, 2.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 14.1-inch color WXGA+ screen, SuperDrive, 100 GB hard drive, 256 MB NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M TurboCache

Thanks for your views.....

 

I forgive you.