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KillerMan on 20 January 2012

As much as i don't get the appeal of Apple products I have to give they huge credit over ipod, iphone and ipad. Especially ipod and iphone. They entered these market when there was already a lot of competition but still managed to build massively succesfull products. Apples brand building is really something else. I know a lot of people that have bought iphone just because it is ''cool'' to own. They really don't use many of its features that much. It's status symbol for them. Also success of Apple has leaden the competition to also make better products. Samsung's smarphones are damn nice and hopefully Nokia also makes comeback (as I am finnish guy lol). Realy one market that could use alternative choices is PC OS market. It has stagnated little because MS can do whatever it wants with its monopoly. Not to mention Windows is probably the most profitable product on the planet so for prices competition would be damn nice.



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Exia on 20 January 2012

Apple was not innovative as the one who created the technology.
It was innovated in taking those geeky technology and making it easy to use.
That is an achievement that technology companies need to understand.
Even if your products have the best specs in the world, if its not easy to use and backed up with software it won't be successful.



Millenium on 20 January 2012
MontanaHatchet said:

And this is why we can't have nice things on Vgchartz. We have a thread about Apple and the very first response is about how the products suck. Fantastic.

Just for the future, any baseless trolling like that later in this thread will be a warning or ban.



So now my opinion on the price and quality of Apple is baseless trolling? Good to know you only stick out on the forum for certain companies.



theprof00 on 20 January 2012

You know what apple is? It's the left-handed store from the simpsons.



Serious_frusting on 20 January 2012

im worth more than greece



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Dark_Lord_2008 on 20 January 2012

countries have reserve banks that print money out of thin air.  greece can easily have more than $400 billion it just needs to print more and more money. does greece a small european country need $400 billion GDP, annual gross domestic product?

Apple is a huge multinational company with divisions/branches through out the world and employs millions of million people world wide.



rocketpig on 20 January 2012
theprof00 said:
You know what apple is? It's the left-handed store from the simpsons.

Sure, if the left-handed store was worth more than the right-handed store and most of the world suddenly turned left-handed.

Terrible analogy.




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Serious_frusting on 20 January 2012
Dark_Lord_2008 said:
countries have reserve banks that print money out of thin air. money is just legal tender it is not backed redeemable for gold or silver. greece can easily have more than $400 billion it just needs to print more and more money. does greece a small european country need $400 billion GDP, annual gross domestic product?

Apple is a huge multinational company with divisions/branches through out the world and employs millions of million people world wide.


Money does not work like that, if they just print more money, than the value of it goes down.



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green_sky on 20 January 2012
Heavenly_King said:

If I buy an iMac; I will install windows on it. Apple´s OSs, are so simple that want to do everything for you, and I hate that; it is like of it was trying to make you dumb on purpose.

I hate Apple gadgets.

Might as well install linux than. Windows is too simple and does everything for me. Arghh. 



green_sky on 20 January 2012
theprof00 said:
green_sky said:
Truly mind blowing what this company has done both financially and shaping modern consumer and design culture. In 96' it was around three months away from going bankrupt or atleast in a really bad position. Just finished reading Steve Jobs biography. It is quite a story showcasing many thing which are part of our daily life. Whether one is apple user or not. Personally i've only used Iphone as other products i find quite a bit expensive.

Don't know why that would be in Steve Jobs autobiography as he has nearly nothing to do with Apple's success today.

Not sure if serious. Also it is a biography.