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Posted on 02/01/2015 5:19:49 PM PST by pluvmantelo
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How would people describe Samsung’s brand? For a time, it felt younger. It felt like the anti-Apple, at least in America. Recently, though, it lost its way. It sent out many products, but each with little definition or personality. The style, the impact, just wasn’t there. There was no core attitude, no core principle.
As the style slipped further down, so did the profits.
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Tim Cook Defused Steve Jobs’ Thermonuclear War, Then He Took Down Android
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Was never an Apple fan per se, more of a unix-bigot. But I love my iPhine....it just works. It’s not the mostest, bestest, or whatever.
Just don’t care for Driod OS. The people I know who are not “techies” have nothing but trouble with them.
What it is, is functional, always. I don’t like iTunes though.
If someone builds a better device, more power to them. Until then, it’s Apple.
Apple or Android...they both need sensors to tell when your going to run into a wall...
“I’m platform agnostic so this post is neither pro nor anti Apple.”
I don’t know about you but when I see an Apple user I think computer illiteracy and the foolish to buy a deliberately overpriced product made by a company that takes special pleasure in gouging & entrapping its victims... sorry customers.
When I hear the term Mac Genus I giggle inside knowing the level of expertise theses glorified sales men have only seems like a genius to those who with the user computer literacy Apple targets.
The apple corporation survives on the cult mentality of its members willingness to pay absurd rates for their products, which Apple goes to extraordinary lengths to see to it are only comparable with their own stuff, thus jailing Apple users into their own high priced Ecosystem.
So does that sounds like a smart place a smart buyer put him or herself? No, which is why I giggle when I see people who think their smart using apple products.
“But I love my iPhine....it just works”
This is the key to Apple’s success. The products ‘just work’ That is why people buy technology in the first place. The ‘old days’ of hacker maniacs loving the DIY aspects left the building LONG LONG ago
What a huge load lifted. I'm quite tech literate but quite frankly I no longer want to spend hours keeping my many computers running.
Like they say, Apple just works, and when you go all in with phones and tablets the integration is superb.
I've bought all my family (and extended family) , Phones, tablets and computers. I'm no longer the it guy, fixing their pc’s and androids.
Sweet relief.
Oh I do have one holdover to the past, a smoking hackintosh workstation, but even that thing needs no ongoing support. It just works.
I would suggest your generalization is way off base.
Totally agree. I don’t spend hours hacking my toaster, oven, microwave, car, thermostat, or clothes dryer. They all just work when I want them to.
Our family’s many MBP, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, Time Machine/Time Capsule, and iTunes just work. The MBP goes months without a reboot. SW updates are brain-dead simple.
That’s why I’m willing to pay a slight premium for Apple products. Who has time to keep all that crap running? I’d rather be hiking, golfing, investing, or taking the family out for some fun.
Already posted
An avalanche of Apple porn
I think Apple has produced some amazing products in the past. My Macbook Pro was a great product while it lasted, and despite problems caused by two failing hard disks, a system board replacement, and a bad internal LCD cable, I kept it running long past when I probably should have retired it simply because I liked it so much.
But frankly I think Apple is just running on momentum right now. They are more of a fashion statement now than a technologically innovator. Plus, if you factor in that Apple products are effectively never discounted beyond about 5-7%, they are consistently more expensive than comparable products purchased on sale.
The products are generally sound, but there’s none of the cutting edge innovation that was ever present when Steve was alive. And they are really struggling on the server (Cloud) side, not to mention badly behind in security (although they have the advantage of having started with an OS that never had a flawed security model to overcome).
And please fanboys don’t give me the “quality” argument. My iPad crashes more in a month than my PC has crashed in the last 5 years (not exaggerating; I suspect that’s software, not hardware, but I can’t be sure on that).
And they seem to have a strategy of pushing out bloated, slower iOS releases to force users of existing devices to upgrade. For that reason alone, I’ve decided that my current iPad Air will be my last Apple product. It’s ridiculous to have a product that’s 2 years old, that you paid a serious price premium on, that is now too slow to run the current OS.
Maybe they will recover and resume the innovation, but right now they remind me a lot of the Microsoft of the late 1990’s early 2000’s.
<<< I don’t know about you but when I see an Apple user I think computer illiteracy and the foolish to buy a deliberately overpriced product made by a company that takes special pleasure in gouging & entrapping its victims... sorry customers. >>>
I started out in tech/computers in 1978 with a TRS-80 CoCo and a compuserve account connected to DEC System 10’s. From there to the IBM 5150 and DOS 1.0 and stayed with DOS, Netware,Windows, UNIX, Linux and others until I got my first MAC. An iPhone 3GS. Followed by a MAC Mini, then an iMac desktop. A couple of iPads and iPhones later, and I’m quite happy with them
They’re well built machines, and I got tired of “tinkering” all the time with my other machines. These pretty much “just work”. If I want to build a system and put whatever os on it, I will. But I’d rather spend my time with them doing what I want them to do, when I want them to do it.
And OS X IS Unix.
Freeapplepublic. If I owned the site, I’d think I was being taken for a free ride. It’s sickeningly pathetic.
Apple sold something like 74 million iPhones last quarter. They were barely able to make them fast enough. Why would they discount? And if Apple is running on fumes and their products are simply "fashion statements" as you attest, why would so many people be lining up to pay full price for them?
At my company, iOS devices now greatly outnumber Windows based devices. Just five years ago, we were 100% Microsoft and even our cell phones were Microsoft.
iPhones, iPads and MacBook Pros are everywhere in my company now.
It's not just schools, hipsters and aging baby boomers buying Apple products these days. They have now moved into the business world in a large way.
Indeed. What is the few posters who are so anti-Mac? steve Jobs run off with their wives?
iPOD or Xune?
Apple delivered a superior product and ran away with the market.
Microsofts xune... Crashed and burned.
It took me a long, long time to get my first iPhone.
I had to wait until they came out with a Verizon option. Cause I was never going back to AT&T.
Superior phone. Well worth the money.
Boyght a lot of dogs before then.
Please provide link. I couldn’t find it.
There was no such DUPLICATE ARTICLE for this. I checked; you’re mistaken!
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