No one can deny they make compelling products, but my biggest issue with Apple is the smuggness and douchebagery that their customers exibit every time I go to an Apple store...lol.
| disolitude said: No one can deny they make compelling products, but my biggest issue with Apple is the smuggness and douchebagery that their customers exibit every time I go to an Apple store...lol. |
Never been in an Apple store...
Anyway you'd probably experience the same thing going into any luxury automobile dealer, only worse.
Tease.
Squilliam said:
Never been in an Apple store... Anyway you'd probably experience the same thing going into any luxury automobile dealer, only worse. |
Except people that hang out in apple stores tend to be students who have too much allowance and are in general full of themselves.
If you have a problem and get a sad face on your ipod, you have to go to an Apple store and book an appointement at the "genious bar". Then when you're there on time, you have to wait in line with these brats for an extra 30 minutes since no one sticks to schedule... Only to have some dweeb look at your ipod, and then go to google on his mac and type "broken ipod sad face troubleshooting".
An hour later you get a refurbished device...I've had to replace 3 ipods within a year, all in this exact same way.
| NotStan said: Just my personal opinion, but I think most of the people who buy the newer Apple products are sheep. In most cases the entry product, let's take iPod nano for example, I have one, I brought it a year and a half ago, it's 16GB and blue. I see insane amount of people instead of opting for that cheaper option willing to pay some £30-50 more to get the now newer version of it, the only difference is the camera, question, WHY THE FUCK, would you want a camera on your iPod nano for!? Same with iPhone 4G, bar the design there is really not that much different with 3G, and the price difference is now in the region of £100-200 on the market. I really can't see how people are willing to pay extra money just to get a miniature useless features and some social status elevation as a result. I don't follow sheep, I get an android. EDIT: Same shit with iPod touch, LETS TACKLE A CAMERA ON IT AND SELL IT FOR MORE YE? |
In the case of the iPod touch... you're very wrong...
4G has twice the ram and a better processor and handles multitasking much better because of this. It's as slim as a nano. Much higher screen resolution. All in addition to the second camera.
If you knew the specs of the iPhone 4 you'd know you're pretty wrong about that to.
| 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. |
That doesn't explain the 9 Billion apps sold. Given the estimates on how many jailbroken iOS devices out there you really wanna tell us that apple customers are rebuying the same apps like 20 times?
Apple being a cult is almost confirmed at this point.
Apple shares fell almost 25 bucks per share when steve jobs announced leave of absence. They got back up to 350 when the news of their successful quarter was was released, but have been going down again...down 10 bucks since yesterday.
"Steve Jobs...our leader has left us...abandon ship!"
| 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!"
“These are my principles; if you don’t like them, I have others.” – Groucho Marx
Also, if it were just the same people buying year after year, then you would see same YOY sales. However, Apple has been growing sales continuously so you can't really make the argument that it's just the same people.
Anyone can guess. It takes no effort to throw out lots of predictions and have some of them be correct. You are not and wiser or better for having your guesses be right. Even a blind man can hit the bullseye.
| disolitude said: Apple being a cult is almost confirmed at this point. Apple shares fell almost 25 bucks per share when steve jobs announced leave of absence. They got back up to 350 when the news of their successful quarter was was released, but have been going down again...down 10 bucks since yesterday. "Steve Jobs...our leader has left us...abandon ship!" |
The markets, in general, have been rather pessimistic. Had this news been relased about a couple of weeks ago (when markets were more bullish), we would have seen nowhere near the amount of losses.
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Yeah youre right...Google is down too. When google is down, you know things are bad lol
Microsoft stock never moves anywhere in a significant manner eh. Only sideways for like 5 years now...
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