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It's all about trajectory. In the 00's you were cool when you had an Apple while the acceleration of popularity was positive. The acceleration is negative now, even though popularity is still rising, but it's no longer cool because you aren't on the edge.

I believe that the inflection point for the beginning of Apple being cool was when they announced OS X, and the other inflection point was maybe around the iPhone 3GS.



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