The key word, I think, is spir­i­tual. Mythological brands make a spir­i­tual con­nec­tion with the user, deliv­er­ing some­thing that we can’t find on our own… or, at the very least, giv­ing us a slate we can use to write our own spir­i­tu­al­ity on.

People use a Dell. They are an Apple.