By way of introduction...
Hi all. Dan Fellini here to introduce myself as one of TUAW's newest team members. Glad and honored to be here.
I live in sunny Portland, Oregon, and work as the executive producer for an online video network. I love my job, love my city and love technology, social media, the outdoors and, of course, my Macs and my iPhone. In previous lives I've been a reporter, editor, sysadmin, programmer and, way back, I was an EMT. Lights and sirens baby!
The first time I touched an Apple computer was back in elementary school, when I programmed Logo to act like Joshua from Wargames. Oh yes. My 6th grade teacher freaked. We were supposed to be making cute designs with the turtle, and there I was bringing our classroom to the brink of global thermonuclear war. How about a nice game of chess? Not so much.
Now, as an adult, I spend 8, 12, sometimes 16 hours a day in front of a MacBook, a MacBook Pro, or my iPhone. I'm not saying I couldn't live without Apple, but my quality of life would definitely not be as good.
And that's the point. That's why I'm here, writing about a company I don't get a paycheck from. Writing about a company that (let's be honest) charges a bit too much for their products. Writing about a company that doesn't know I exist. I'm here because Apple products contribute to my overall quality of life, in a positive way, and when a company or product does that, it's a special relationship. There are so few companies like that these days.
I'm not a fanboy. Let's get that cleared up straight away. I'm not of the 'Apple can do no wrong' mentality. What I am, though, is a big fan of products that are well designed, well built and that inspire me to do good work.
I'm thrilled to be part of this team. I've been reading TUAW for a long time, and have always considered it the blog of record for the word on Apple. To be a part of it now is something I'm quite proud of.
Now, on to more pressing issues...
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Hi all. Dan Fellini here to introduce myself as one of TUAW's newest team members. Glad and honored to be here. I live in sunny Portland,...
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Nice post, Dan. I dig the consumer transparency.
December 08 2008 at 9:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNice picture, it reminds me of my recent Facebook profile pic... http://www.facebook.com/people/Wes-Plate/739723151
December 08 2008 at 7:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWelcome aboard Dan. Congrats!
December 08 2008 at 7:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyhi!
after Izzie and George and you seem to be the Karev of tuaw. welcome!
right on Dan.
looking forward to reading your posts
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
Welcome! As aforementioned I also really like your writing style. Can't wait to read some of your articles/posts.
-Leo
"Writing about a company that (let's be honest) charges a bit too much for their products."
First of all, let me just point out the obvious. If you truly believed this to be the case, you wouldn't be here writing about Apple because you would not have purchased anything from them in the first place.
The value of something is determined entirely by the market. The market has decided that Apple's prices are just fine. So let's not get into the age-old debate that has been disproved with cold hard facts over and over, only to have cold hard facts shrugged off in exchange for subjective comparisons.
The FACT of the matter is, Apple does not charge too much.
I apologize for the tone of my comment. I don't mean to be unwelcoming, I just think that's a really bad statement to make right off the bat here, because the argument behind it is false.
I know some people will call me a fanboy, but this is about logic. The fastest growing computer company in the world in many respects, Apple's prices are selling to people. Obviously the people who buy the products find them to be worth the price.
Go look for yourself, Mac pricing is perfectly comparable to PC pricing, there just isn't a low-end to the Mac spectrum. But you can't find a much better deal on a PC of equal specs. Even if this weren't the case, you still have to consider that a Mac is worth a lot more than a PC when it comes time to sell it used, and also (once again, if you call me a fanboy so be it, but you're wrong) the OS is vastly superior in most ways. The quality of the product is higher, so even if the price were higher (which as evidence shows, it's not most of the time) it wouldn't matter because people are willing to pay for the ONLY thing they really truly care about in a computer: a better OS. The one and only thing average consumers ever even see in the magic box. Yes it's important!
This isn't about "OMG I LUV APPLE ITZ THE BEST EVRY1 ELSE SUX". It's about pure logic, which clearly shows that this age-old argument is completely baseless and wrong and I'm filthy sick of hearing it.
Anyway.. I do look forward to your articles and I hope you have some more well-thought out things to say than this -- what I'm sure was just an effort to appear acceptable to the idiots who like to scream "FANBBBBOOOOOYYYYYYYY!!!!" and disregard anything an alleged "fanboy" has to say.
Welcome aboard! Don't the haters bother you. I get lots of them on my YouTube page and videos via comments, and I don't let them get to me anymore.
err don't let*
December 07 2008 at 11:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat was a heck of an introduction, Dan! Welcome, and I look forward to your postings.
December 07 2008 at 11:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWelcome Dan!. That's a varied bacground you have here and no doubt matching some of the viewers/readers of TUAW. You can see that it is a vocal lot here. Like one poster keeps using value of product in monetary terms compared to other products as a basis of determining one's principle in life. Thats so shallow!.
The "value" one uses as a basis of buying a product is very very different from one to the next. In most reasonable cases, it should be the value in totality to oneself rather than just monetary face value. In my book, Apple's pricing is actually HALF of its sticker price mainly becuase I use it for 2 to 3 years and sell it off for almost half the price I paid. Adding some overhead to AppleCare and some fixes along the way. The re-sell value is that good and consistently shows over the years Show me any PC that has such great re-sell value! Hence, the price of usage is actually reasonable, in most cases ROI in 2-3 years is just unbeatable!.
Looking forward to your interesting contributions to this site.
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