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Apple The Current Fastest Growing Brand
Will Stewart writes "According to Apple News, in a recently published report, Vivaldi Partners and Forbes magazine showed Apple has increased its brand value by 38 percent in the last four years, largely on the popularity of its iPod digital media device. Vivaldi Partners estimated Apple's overall brand value for 2005 at US$5.3 billion. Google and Blackberry tie for second, while Amazon is in fourth place. The ranking was determined by taking the compound annual growth rate of each brand over a period of the last four years."
From TFA: "They began their study by surveying chief marketing officers and consumers, asking them to identify brands they felt were both growing fast and being innovative."
Microsoft is neither of those.
Sorry, I don't usually respond to trolls, but if I recall correctly, it was IBM who could not keep up with the volume which Apple demanded of new G5 chips. While I don't believe that Intel will necessarily get everything together by this time next year, you must admit that Intel has much larger production capabilities than IBM, concerning the chips which Apple will most likely use.
Plus, even if the Intel deal turns out to be a bust - and it might, you never know - there will always be a devout Apple following and they always have the iPod, anyway. Apple has a nice-sized nest egg - they can deal with problems if Intel fails to come through.
blarg.
If you ask anybody who rides motorcycles, Harley (another top ten) is all about the experience. The motorcycles they put out are technically inferior in terms of performance and reliability, and arguably in terms of comfort. All this with a higher price tag.
Funny thing is, Harley makes next to no money per bike. The real money is in... merchandising merchandising merchandising. Seriously... at least in Milwaukee (hometown of Harley and of me) you see harley davidson apparel anywhere you go. The most common design for dog collars? Harley Davidson logo. Talk about selling "experience" rather than your actual product.
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman
Refresh my memory; when was Apple ever in charge? Even in the heyday of MSDOS, Macs were a small minority of the computer market. And back in the days when Apple IIs roamed the earth, nobody was "in charge" because there was no single dominant platform (though you could make a case for CP/M).