| Joelcool7 said: The only reason Apple makes so much money is reselling their product over and over again every year. Each year they release a new model for I-Phone, I-Pod and now I-Pad. Each version has some new features which make it a must for Apple fans, these fans go out buy the newest phone , Pad or Pod. My Uncle has had every I-Phone since the first one launched, he has had over 7 I-Pods according to his bragging. He also has had several Apple computers and now a Apple TV. He was bragging at Christmas how he will soon be buying the new I-Pad as soon as its availible. Those are the consumers I'm talking about. Where PSP and DS do have new models Nintendo and Sony etc...etc... don't upgrade every year. If their was a new model with new features every single year consumers with money would blow big bucks and we would probubly see similiar sales. Also as it works with my uncle , these Apple fans upgrade constantly selling their old Pods, phones and soon Pads to consumers who couldn't afford the newest model. My uncle gave both me and my sister two of his older I-Pods. He gave other family members his old I-Phone and what he didn't give he resold. So now those poorer consumers get a refurbished or used I-product. They get hooked and as soon as they can afford a new model bingo they buy the newest model. I wonder how much of the total sales are repurchases? Theirs no doubt they have major selling abilities but a huge part of that is resale. |
As much as I hate to argue for Apple, if that were true, then we would see a new model of PSP and DS every year. Point is, Nintendo/Sony consumers wouldn't be willing to (if they were, then Nintendo and Sony would make the tens of billions Apple is making) buy the same products year after year, so, even if all the sales are resales, which they are, and, for fanboyish purposes, I find kind of unfair, Nintendo and Sony couldn't get those sales using yearly redesigns so the point is as moot as "it's unfair! If PSP had Mario and Pokemon and Nintendogs and Brain Age and... it would outsell the DS!"
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