I thought that video was pretty hilarious. However, although it is something I laugh at, it's completely true. When my previous phone broke, I was so excited to get the iPhone without even researching what other possibilities there were; I'm sure there were a million other better phones I could have chosen from, but regardless I stuck with the iPhone. The only reason to back up my decision was, "everyone has one!" If everyone had one then the iPhone MUST be amazing. Yeah I was obsessed with it and used it 24/7 the first week I got it, but within the month my friends got different smart phones that were far more efficient than mine.
The response above was to Ryan Brander's last post titled "iMedia:Consumerism." Basically, Ryan portrayed that in today's economy, high schoolers especially, people buy products based on how popular they are, using the iPhone as an example. Just by looking at a brand of a product, society buys the most well-known brands regardless of how crappy they are compared to other products with less popularity. Ryan's intention of his blog was to inform society not to buy products just based on their fame, but more for their quality.
I enjoyed reading this blog because of the reality of it. Today, people of this society long to become successful. However, they are too scared that their product or company would not meet the consumers' satisfaction; all this proves is the lack of creativity the people of today have.
The paragraph above is my response to Ronald Te's blog. In his blog, titled "iMedia: Authenticity," he posted a commercial by Burger King. Pretty much the commercial shows the "King" stealing McDonald's sausage McMuffin "blueprint." Ronald wanted to show the lack of creativity our society has come to. New businesses with CEO's trying to reach for success merely imitate products of other successful companies opposed to creating an original product since they are scared it will fail. However, if this game of "copycat" persists, consumers will have millions of companies to buy from. That may sound like a good thing, but how good is it when the millions of companies are selling the exact same product with a different logo?
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