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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."
A year from now Apple will have half the marketshare they have today.
You have figured out that Apple getting dumped by IBM isn't going to lead to 'cheap and fast Macs' or running OS X on your $500 home built x86 box...
As a side note, it is hilarious to see the core Mac faithful express their unwavering faith that Intel will deliver everything on their roadmap right to Apple's door by this time next year...
Die, die you fucking marketoids, DIE!
Now that Apple isn't an underdog any more (beleaguered, etc), it's pretty much guaranteed they will turn Evil. They will be like the bad old Apple that kicked out Jobs.
What do you mean the bad old Apple that kicked out Jobs ? That was the good old Apple you cretin.
Jobs has wrecked everything good about Apple and turned it into his personal ego trip. He couldn't give a damn about anything and only serves himself.
You are right about one thing though; companies are nicer when they need their customers. But Jobs doesn't care about that, where he is aiming is a dark shallow ugly place that will doom Apple forever. In the meantime he will just continue to shit over anything or anyone who stands in his way...actually including customers too.....until he is kicked out again for a second time.