Koolhaas said something cool

I never thought the architect Rem Koolhaas was so good at writing. I feel the following words are very powerful and expressive:

in early 2002, my office received two invitations: one to propose a design for Ground Zero, the other to propose a design for the headquarters of China Central Television in Beijing. We discussed the choice over Chinese food. The life of the architect is so fraugth with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportioantely welcome. My fortune cookie that night read: Stunningly Omnipresent Masters Make Minced Meat of Memory.
We chose China.

the three categories of users

Don Norman divides people's reaction to a product in three levels: visceral, behavioral and reflective. Let me borrow this idea to categorize users, or say, buyers:
V type users are people who use product without think too much. They buy products that attract them.
B type users comprise most of the consumers: they buy stuff for using. So these people care a lot: price, features, forms, colors, easy of use etc.
R type are scientists among buyers. These people do a lot of research before they buy something.

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欢笑中音乐响起
是悠扬的乡谣
挣扎中我遥看远方
夕阳漫过天边 


---in the sound of Vince Gill,
 

Apple losing its sheen?

according to Wall Street Journal(06/28/04), Apple's share of global computer market has dropping to 1.7% at the end of March, down from 1.8% in early 2003. Last year the whole PC market grew 12% while the shippment of Macintosh remain flat.

Is this because Apple has always kept a high price or because people are still abondoning Mac?