drrich2
Contributor
seriously when hen my wife chose her previous edit dive comp, she got the same as mine except she had a pink strap.
i have to be careful here. My wife is a great diver, more dives than me, she had a wing and a doc before we met. But she doesn't give a damn about the detail of the gear, apart from does it work and does it look nice. The technicalities of equipment don't interest her. That's not an anti women comment, it's the way she is wired. To her scuba gear is there to allow her to get underwater and get freedom away from the corporate world. Whereas to some they are wired towards the other extreme where diving is almost just a reason to put their gear together
While it's a tangent, it's pertinent to the overall topic, and what you posted here speaks to it. Quite awhile back, I was reading one of those articles about women & tech. (e.g.: computers & related personal technology ownership & usage). There are people bothered by the lower percentage of women involved in some elements of tech. (e.g.: gaming), so the issue of what motivates women where tech. is concerned gets discussed.
In a nutshell, the article pitched the idea that while many men seem to enjoy tech. for its own sake (e.g.: how many gigahertz the processor is, how much RAM and storage it's got, whether there's an SSD drive in it, etc...), women tend to view & value tech. that offers a solution to some problem/need they have. Which reminds me of some of what RJP's been telling us in threads discussing marketing & motivating people.
Remember when the iPad originally came out? The tech. people were asking how fast is the processor? Apple was like 'Just hold it and try it.' But how much memory does it have? 'Just hold it and try it.' The techies were doggedly trying to get technical specifications; Apple was selling an experience.
We talk a lot about gear. Is there a 'scuba experience' that's not getting marketed?
Richard.