Apple’s Greatest Advantage: The Apple Ecosystem

GigaOM ^ | Dec. 10, 2010, 1:00pm PDT | By Jon Buys

[Swordmaker]

Apple's advantage: the Apple Ecosystem—PING!

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[LtKerst]

sorry, but this is a “Puff Piece”
My iphone battery life is poor and the phone does things I dont ask it to do..
and wont do things I do ask it to do....
and AT&T service sucks
I also got charges for things I didnt order...
You may say thats not Apples problem, but I beg to differ...they have joined with AT&T in an exclusive deal and so I blame them BOTH.

[exDemMom]

I found some unexpected charges on my AT&T phone bill. I called up AT&T; apparently, they can block 3rd parties from billing your account. I highly suggest doing that. The charges on my bill had been set up by Debbie Saunders, and I keep getting messages for her at home--but I know no one by that name.

[roadcat]

Interesting regarding mention of an Apple ecosystem. never thought of it that way. At this moment, I’m typing this on a ten-year old Mac G4 that I bought for a little over $100. It’s running OS X, and is fully compatible with all my other Apple gear, including my iPod, iPad and MacBook. Try installing Windows 7 or Vista on a ten-year old PC and see if you can run your Windows apps - not an easy task. Many people I know have switched to Apples because everything just works without hassles.

[Psycho_Runner]

I agree on one item. My Android phone is awesome except it has no integrated music management system. Win amp is getting close, but it is still not as convenient as my IPod with Itunes.

[bigbob]

“the phone does things I dont ask it to do..”

Boy that says it all. I had to hold my nose and install iTunes on this PC last week after discovering it was the only way to burn some CDs that I’d paid to download. Had I known that in advance I never would have done so. I hate hate hate iTunes, as the first experience it crashed a hard drive.

For those who like the Apple experience, fine and good. But being given no choice is kinda like living in a world where NPR was the only station on the radio dial.

[dennisw]

“Get ‘em in young and brainwash them. Condition them like Pavlov’s dogs to pant and salivate when they see the Apple logo. Condition them to unquestioningly buy Apple products”

“Condition them so that daggers will shoot out of their eyes (like in Village of the Damned) at anyone uncool enough to buy a Windows laptop”

[Dagnabitt]

After 7 or 8 PCS, I Bought a MacBook Pro two weeks ago. Very clean, well thought out product, but no Delete key? and no right mouse button?

One very good feature is the magnetic external power connection, a big improvement over female socket connections soldered to a mother board, which are so prone to damage.

[ReignOfError]

“Condition them so that daggers will shoot out of their eyes (like in Village of the Damned) at anyone uncool enough to buy a Windows laptop”

That's pity, not anger.

[USNBandit]

I just bought a MacBook Air and it has been frustrating.......going back to my desktop PC at work and having to wait for everything. My MacBook boots up faster than a lot of programs load on a PC, 14 seconds.

[USNBandit]

I just looked at a picture of a MacBook Pro and there is a delete key on the upper right corner of the keyboard. I also think you can get right click functions by clicking with two fingers on the touchpad.

[ReignOfError]

and no right mouse button?

You didn't notice that there wasn't a left mouse button, either?

You can click with two fingers for a right click. Or hold down the control key and click, or use a USB or bluetooth mouse. In the system preferences (in the Apple menu), you can also designate the right-hand side of the trackpad as a right-click spot.

[ReignOfError]

and no right mouse button?

You didn't notice that there wasn't a left mouse button, either?

You can click with two fingers for a right click. Or hold down the control key and click, or use a USB or bluetooth mouse. In the system preferences (in the Apple menu), you can also designate the right-hand side of the trackpad as a right-click spot.

[ReignOfError]

A basic tutorial for Windows-to-Mac switchers: http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#switcher

[TXnMA]

An application crashed a hard drive -- all by its lonesome? On what OS?

[TXnMA]

I haven't looked an Air, but my MacBook Pro has a key labeled "delete" at the upper right of the keyboard -- and it gets lots of use! '-}

Control-click works -- as well as two-finger click -- for right-click -- and I'm not always hitting the wrong trackpad button like I do on my Dell Laptop.

[USNBandit]

My only problem is that I sometimes overshoot the delete button and hit the power button. I end up canceling out of a lot of shutdowns after that. I do like how the buttons on the top of the keyboard actually work. I had an HP laptop where they would stop functioning and then you didn't have any control over things like the volume. That was about the time the Windows Explorer was going into (not responding) mode.

The Air is, so far, a great machine. I'm going on my first business trip with it this week. I'm looking forward to not having all the weight from the old laptop in my backpack.

[Texan Tory]

My wife and daughter each have an iPhone, and I find that using iTunes is kind of a pain. I used to sync up my daughter’s iPhone, but now she claims that she loses a whole bunch of data (phone numbers etc.) whenever it gets synced, so now won’t let me sync her iPhone to the computer, thus failing to get whatever new songs and apps are loaded in it. Maybe I was somehow doing it wrong, but if so, it’s not very intuitive.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Your post is classic projection. It describes exactly your opinion but you project it onto us Apple fans. Get a life dennis! You must stop living just to make an ass of yourself on these threads.

You have been told over and over there are 500+ of us who asked Swordmaker to keep us posted on Apple products and activities. We are not here to decide between products and we don’t appreciate your constant negative interference. I imagine you may be about to go the way of some past detractors.