I’ve been asked lots of time:

  • Why get an iPod when you can get many other alternatives with much more functions?
  • Why are you using a Sony Ericsson phone with so much less functions?
  • Why must you wear an Oakley specs? Any other ordinary specs will serve the purpose too
  • Why do you get crazy over Apple products?

My simple answer to all those is: I buy what I want from a product, and not what the product has.

Simply put, I want a product that does not have a boatload of functions (some of them I might not even use often), good design, a superb user-interface that would give me optimum user experience, good build quality and the status (yes) that comes with it.

If you don’t want any of those, go get a Creative product, for example.

I have an iPod. It has must less functions than its closest competitors. But I love it. Why? Simply because it’s gorgeous, easy to use and I feel good carrying it around.

Why did I choose Apple’s iPod over Microsoft’s Zune? 2 reasons:

  1. iPod has way much better user-interface.
  2. Zune is ugly.

Why I’m using a Sony Ericsson phone instead of the everyone-has-it Nokia phone? 3 reasons:

  1. Superior build quality.
  2. Superior user-interface.
  3. Nokia phones are ugly.

Yesterday was iDay, the launch of Apple’s latest product: iPhone. Yes it is not 3G, does not do MS Office Apps editing, no FM radio, no GPS, locked mechanism, no 3rd party softwares. But heck, take out a Nokia N95 (the most feature-stuffed mobile device money can buy now) and an iPhone. 5 mins later, the person with the nokia will probably playing around with the GPS himself, while you have just made a new friend.

I’ve held and tested the N95 before. It felt like a brick.

The bottom line is that, technology is so advanced now and is advancing constantly that we can get products that are overloaded with features and functions.

We need to sieve out the quality ones.

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