Comments on: If Microsoft made iPods http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/if-microsoft-made-ipods/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/if-microsoft-made-ipods/#comment-8 Richard Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:01:18 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/wp/?p=19#comment-8 Could be worse; can you imagine a MilSpec iPod? Over to you, Photoshoppers. Could be worse; can you imagine a MilSpec iPod? Over to you, Photoshoppers.

]]> By: Paul J. Morris http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/if-microsoft-made-ipods/#comment-7 Paul J. Morris Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:19:36 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/wp/?p=19#comment-7 Haha yip, I’m sure Microsoft’s iPod packaging would look exactly like that! This just further illustrates the main differences between the two companies. Apple cares passionately about simplicity, style and sex appeal. Their stuff is seriously cool and fashionable. Design is not ‘tacked-on’ so to speak; it’s a philosophy that goes to the core of everything they do. Microsoft on the other hand (obviously) doesn’t put the same effort into the design of their stuff (from their brand to their software). Microsoft doesn’t have a design philosophy at all. They aren’t driven by emotion, entrepreneurialism, egos or the desire to create. Haha yip, I’m sure Microsoft’s iPod packaging would look exactly like that!

This just further illustrates the main differences between the two companies. Apple cares passionately about simplicity, style and sex appeal. Their stuff is seriously cool and fashionable. Design is not ‘tacked-on’ so to speak; it’s a philosophy that goes to the core of everything they do.

Microsoft on the other hand (obviously) doesn’t put the same effort into the design of their stuff (from their brand to their software). Microsoft doesn’t have a design philosophy at all. They aren’t driven by emotion, entrepreneurialism, egos or the desire to create.

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