Posted on 06/25/2012 6:21:49 PM PDT by randita
Liking the Surface must mean you’re Richard Simmons, then.
GW with his PowerBook
That's Rev Harry Jackson, crusader against gay marriage and abortion.
Rove loved his iPhone
We get nails? Since when?
/johnny
Notice Judas with the Mac. :)
Maybe that’s why I get good hotel prices from Orbitz when I use my Commodore 64.
The rich people vote also went for Obama.
Apple customers are price insensitive. They know what they want and are willing to pay more for it. They do not care about specs and data that do not affirm their purchase decisions.
THESE ARE THE BEST PEOPLE TO SELL TO.
If I sold a product, I’d want to sell to people like this. I’m not like this, but it’s easy for me to figure out why Orbitz would rather sell to an Apple person than to me.
The price differential for comparably equipped systems has all but evaporated over the past decade at retail.
Where a price differential still survives is with the hobbyist builders of Windows computers, dying breed though they are, with even Microsoft beginning to offer out of the box, closed systems.
These are the skinflints who couldn’t give a rat’s patootie about aesthetics and go to extremes in pursuit of cheap, the sort who empty out condiment bins in restaurants and strip hotel rooms of toilet paper, towels, soap and shampoo.
I don’t blame Orbitz at all for sending these people where they’d cause the least embarassment, lol.
“The price differential for comparably equipped systems has all but evaporated over the past decade at retail.”
I beg to differ...I don’t know what computer mags you look at or stores you go to but Apple computers are always easily some 300 to 500 hundred dollars or more for hardware comparably equipped PC based system and lets not go there on the phone side.
There is more variety in terms of lesser powered PC’s desktops, netbooks, ultra books, and laptops. The big key differences especially with desktops are configurability. And yes, one can still build one’s own system if desired and find that Windows will make all the parts work like one bought “it that way from the dept. store” in the first place!
Apple users will often pay more for better (or the perception of better) products. PC users will not.
Not a bad thing for either group, but it does open up niche markets targeting Apple users.
No kidding. That's because 93.5% of Mac users are spending other people's money.
Sure, if I was selling I would love that audience, it is what I do partly base my service business on although I offer something that justifies all of the added price.
I was merely pointing out that the wealthy also chose Obama as their preferred candidate to lead the nation.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
When a PC user gets a room, it’s full of bugs and viruses.
Obama: “Michelle honey, my teleprompter is acting up again! The touching thing on the screen isn’t doing anything.”
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