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2010-01-26
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LMAO! For a second I thought I was reading a news report from theonion.com!
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2010-01-26
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Originally Posted by smarsh
I always wanted a MP2100... bet whatever it is Apple are due to announce won't be half as usefull and or innovative..
I have one! Still works too.
Oh, did I say that out loud...
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2010-01-26
, 22:37
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That was PRICELESS!!!
Reminded me of this hilarious Onion news video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Reminded me of this hilarious Onion news video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
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2010-01-26
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whatever makes people happy i guess...
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2010-01-26
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I don't really understand what you find so unusual about this article. I know such a person. Exactly the same. Gay, subscribed to Apple and preaches his religion wherever he goes. And, as this sad person in the article, he really, honestly believes that Apple is "the underdog company" and it's all about "thinking different" and being creative and whatnot. Hell, he's even invested most of his money in Apple shares and refuses to sell them even though he's broke and unemployed now.
This is what I have in mind when I think of Apple. For me, this is the average Apple customer.
(I'll never understand their thinking of Apple as the company that "thinks different" and is the nice, customer-friendly underdog in a market full of greedy sharks. It's a fundamental part of the Apple experience, and it's the one thing I cannot understand.)
This is what I have in mind when I think of Apple. For me, this is the average Apple customer.
(I'll never understand their thinking of Apple as the company that "thinks different" and is the nice, customer-friendly underdog in a market full of greedy sharks. It's a fundamental part of the Apple experience, and it's the one thing I cannot understand.)
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2010-01-26
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I would gladly take money from that kind of person. Shareholders are happy and users are happy? No harm done?
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2010-01-26
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They're just another company trying to make a buck. The end.
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2010-01-27
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Originally Posted by benny1967
The "tell" for me in that article can be found in the following quote:
I don't really understand what you find so unusual about this article. I know such a person. Exactly the same. Gay, subscribed to Apple and preaches his religion wherever he goes. And, as this sad person in the article, he really, honestly believes that Apple is "the underdog company" and it's all about "thinking different" and being creative and whatnot. Hell, he's even invested most of his money in Apple shares and refuses to sell them even though he's broke and unemployed now.
This is what I have in mind when I think of Apple. For me, this is the average Apple customer.
(I'll never understand their thinking of Apple as the company that "thinks different" and is the nice, customer-friendly underdog in a market full of greedy sharks. It's a fundamental part of the Apple experience, and it's the one thing I cannot understand.)
...adding that Apple knows before he does what he needs in technology.
The first group are the ones most likely to start a thread titled "What phone should I get?" or "What's better, LCD TV's or Plasma?".
The other group are the ones who look at the specs first and imagine possibilities. They are more likely to start threads like "If Phone X can do Y, can I make it do Z?" or "All I see are LCD and Plasma large screen TV's... since a plain old CRT gives me the best picture (by a huge margin), who makes large display, rear projection CRTs?"
Unfortunately this second group is always the smaller of the two and that's why the money rides on the first group. What Apple, and more specifically Steve Jobs has done is accurately predict future wants and needs by providing a product people want and through its use, soon develop a need. In doing so they have become this first groups technology proxy...
This isn't new. The vast majority has apparently always been overwhelmed by new technology. The proxy could have been anyone. It's Apple now but in the past it has been Alex Bell, then Henry Ford, then General Electric, then DuPont, then MicroSoft... and so on.
Fortunately things change...
...and the catalyst for these changes can always be found in the second group.
Oh, did I say that out loud...
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