Girlie phones
Many moons a geek at the BBC used to try to wind me up by calling Macs Fisher Price computing. I used to wind him up by saying that I took that as a compliment as it meant well designed, easy to use and fun.
Several times now women who I barely know have seen me using my iPhone and come up to me saying they have one and how much they love it. Not just like it - LOVE it.
In the same inversion of it's possible sexist use I reckon the normally disparaging epithet "girlie" is high praise indeed for a bit of kit.

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WOW, not only have I heard the iPhone is a good piece of kit, but now I have a pickup line.
Posted by:Colin Amaral | April 24, 2008 at 02:31 PM
I've always found it interesting, and inspiring in an odd way, that it seems that if a man gets a new car or talks about the possibility of buying one, the first question from many women seems to be "oh, well, what colour is it, then ?".
I've often wished I could experience the world, in depth, from inside a female head and heart. I'm reasonably sure the world looks quite different from there.
Posted by:Jon Husband | April 24, 2008 at 05:36 PM
I think part of this is due to the fact that the vast majority of mobiles are clearly designed by men, for men - anyone with fingernails of any length will have a problem. I have found this to be annoyingly true of my Nokia N95, for which I have had to reduce my nails of very modest length to downright shortness. Grrr.
That said, no machine has angered and wound me up like my Mac Mini. For true Fisher Price computing, I reckon one needs to look to the Eee PC. :)
Posted by:Jackie Danicki | April 29, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Geek, moi?
M'okay, so I they're gorgous, but don't you feel it's a little stiffling to have such a close, monolithic vertically integrated corporation looking after your music, computing and communications? I'm not saying the results are poor- they're patently excellent- but there's a massize disjoint between the structure of the mac proposition and the rest of the tech world.
Having said all that, I'm teetering right on the edge of getting a mac laptop- probably not an air though.
Posted by:meeware | May 08, 2008 at 03:45 PM
Face it, you're just loving the idea that its a CHICK MAGNET, AND so much cheaper then a Ferrari
Posted by:Earl Mardle | May 11, 2008 at 09:13 AM