AMD leads marketshare for US Retail purchases only. Take into account direct distribution (i.e. Dell), add the global market and you get a different picture. Don't get carried by statistics alone.
And whoever said s/he was playing on Apple's defense? For all we know, the poster is a libertarian or a fervent capitalist? So who's really showing their bias? Pot meet kettle.
Except that some colour laser printers are in fact photocopiers with RIPs attached to them. The Xerox DocuColor 12 (the machine they used in the demo) is the exact same printer we have in our office. My guess is that the dots are imaged directly on the paper no matter what the method of input is (glass or RIP).
So this incident convinced you that all advertising is manipulative and dishonest?
Where do I go when I'm looking for something? I go to Pricewatch. I go to Froogle. I actively avoid places that try to convince me that their brand will get me whiter teeth and fresher breath.
And how, may I ask, do these sites support themselves? I seem to recall these sites selling advertising spaces to companies. How does Google make money again?
Comparison shopping is totally antithetical to the profession of advertising.
What are you basing this on? It was advertisers who first thought of this idea in the first place.
I have no issue whatsoever with you providing me information when I ask for it. I have a big issue with you (note that this is a collective "you", as in "you advertiser") try to reprogram my (hypothetical) kids to eat sugary breakfast cereal.
Reprogram your kids? Do you also believe Elvis is still alive?
If it is your job to trick me into buying something, you don't have any integrity.
You ought to give yourself more credit, and so should the rest of everyone who shares your view. You seem to subscribe to the idea that consumers are mindless minions under the spell of advertisers. If you think that us advertising folks are controlling the minds of consumers, dictating what they can and cannot drink, eat or wear, you're dead wrong. Granted, there are shoddy advertisers out there that give our industry a bad name, but there are those like us who take pride in what we do. If you don't believe this then look no further than the script kiddies that gave the hacking community such a bad rap. There's a good parallel for you.
And no, we don't believe, unlike you, that we're here to trick the consumer. We happen to believe that consumers are smart, independent-thinking individuals who decide what they will buy. They do have minds of their own you know.
See, people tell you they hate advertising and yet when they're in the market for a new house, a new apartment, a new car, a new stereo, a new MP3 player, where do they look? When you're trying to score a deal for a laptop, do you bring competing stores' flyers to compare prices? Do you tell the salesperson that you can get a better deal from Store X? Of course you do. And yet here you are telling us advertising folks we have no integrity.
They don't need a big investment in infrastructure like the old Telcos did. There are numerous MVNO Providers out there that will gladly provide Apple all the necessities to become a service provider.
Well, the first MacTels won't appear 'til 2007 and even then, we may only see PowerBooks and their consumer lines using Intel's chips. So there's still incentive for IBM to continue the development of the PPC. It'll be a nice transition for them until they start focusing on embedded systems.
Apple didn't get to where it's at by simply spending hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising. If that was the case then where is BuyMusic now? What became of Creative's $100M "War" against the iPod?
Jobs was long gone when Apple made an alliance with IBM and Motorola to develop the PowerPC platform. That was Sculley's doing, along with eWorld and the Newton.
"Then terrorists started coming in through Canada because it was so easy."
This assumption has more to do with spin doctoring and pointing fingers than actual facts. One glaring fact you've omitted is that the terrorists of 9/11 were granted student and visitor visas by none other than US Immigration. That, my friend, had nothing to do with Canada. Yet somehow the speculation that the terrorists came in through Canada got stuck in people's minds.
Not quite. PC users just became accustomed to the idea of expandability. And vendors have become accustomed to using that idea as a marketing tool. But in reality, the PC market has become so commoditized that purchasing a new system isn't as expensive as it used to be. Just take a look at Dell and observe how it's been able to increase its marketshare year after year. If PC users are in fact buying their machines because they can upgrade them in the future, then the market simply disapproves that logic.
This is what Apple has realized. That while they can't convince people to switch, they can at least persuade them to consider the Mac as a second computer.
Don't mistake our lack of political involvement as a sign of docility. It could very well be that we find our government agreeable most of the time. Of course we take issues with policies we don't agree with, but we do it in the politest possible way.
I pay about $30 US for 5 Mbit/sec service up here in Toronto. Although I did have to purchase the $100 (about $80 US) modem for the service. Of course in reality, I get about 4.5Mbits max.
I drive a Civic myself and last I checked, they're not the cheapest "economy" car in the market. Don't get me wrong, I do agree with you that they offer great value for the price. But that doesn't follow the logic of your original post. In which you intimated that Apple products by their nature, attract people with "more money than sense." Which only leads me to believe that anyone who doesn't purchase the cheapest product (i.e. storebrands) has "more money than sense." In fact, why don't you drive a Ford Focus? It's been on Car & Driver's 10 Best for 5 years. Certainly a guy who's looking for "value" like you, will be impressed with the Ford.
As for your assertion that Apple charges for software that should've come with the box, might I ask you which software you're referring to? iLife? FYI, it's free when you buy a Mac.
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AMD leads marketshare for US Retail purchases only. Take into account direct distribution (i.e. Dell), add the global market and you get a different picture. Don't get carried by statistics alone.
Uhmm... yes. And the good news is: IBM sells tape drives. Lots of storage on a single tape AND they last longer than CDs. I feel much better now.
Funny he said that. This is the same company that set aside $100 million to market their players, right?
And whoever said s/he was playing on Apple's defense? For all we know, the poster is a libertarian or a fervent capitalist? So who's really showing their bias? Pot meet kettle.
They do. It's called Rock Music.
Except that some colour laser printers are in fact photocopiers with RIPs attached to them. The Xerox DocuColor 12 (the machine they used in the demo) is the exact same printer we have in our office. My guess is that the dots are imaged directly on the paper no matter what the method of input is (glass or RIP).
So this incident convinced you that all advertising is manipulative and dishonest?
Where do I go when I'm looking for something? I go to Pricewatch. I go to Froogle. I actively avoid places that try to convince me that their brand will get me whiter teeth and fresher breath.
And how, may I ask, do these sites support themselves? I seem to recall these sites selling advertising spaces to companies. How does Google make money again?
Comparison shopping is totally antithetical to the profession of advertising.
What are you basing this on? It was advertisers who first thought of this idea in the first place.
I have no issue whatsoever with you providing me information when I ask for it. I have a big issue with you (note that this is a collective "you", as in "you advertiser") try to reprogram my (hypothetical) kids to eat sugary breakfast cereal.
Reprogram your kids? Do you also believe Elvis is still alive?
You ought to give yourself more credit, and so should the rest of everyone who shares your view. You seem to subscribe to the idea that consumers are mindless minions under the spell of advertisers. If you think that us advertising folks are controlling the minds of consumers, dictating what they can and cannot drink, eat or wear, you're dead wrong. Granted, there are shoddy advertisers out there that give our industry a bad name, but there are those like us who take pride in what we do. If you don't believe this then look no further than the script kiddies that gave the hacking community such a bad rap. There's a good parallel for you.
And no, we don't believe, unlike you, that we're here to trick the consumer. We happen to believe that consumers are smart, independent-thinking individuals who decide what they will buy. They do have minds of their own you know.
See, people tell you they hate advertising and yet when they're in the market for a new house, a new apartment, a new car, a new stereo, a new MP3 player, where do they look? When you're trying to score a deal for a laptop, do you bring competing stores' flyers to compare prices? Do you tell the salesperson that you can get a better deal from Store X? Of course you do. And yet here you are telling us advertising folks we have no integrity.
It works fine on 2.0 for me. Safari even renders the RSS version beautifully. Although why MS provides the latter I don't know.
They don't need a big investment in infrastructure like the old Telcos did. There are numerous MVNO Providers out there that will gladly provide Apple all the necessities to become a service provider.
Well, the first MacTels won't appear 'til 2007 and even then, we may only see PowerBooks and their consumer lines using Intel's chips. So there's still incentive for IBM to continue the development of the PPC. It'll be a nice transition for them until they start focusing on embedded systems.
Then again, Thailand has the highest percentage of she-males per capita.
Apple didn't get to where it's at by simply spending hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising. If that was the case then where is BuyMusic now? What became of Creative's $100M "War" against the iPod?
Jobs was long gone when Apple made an alliance with IBM and Motorola to develop the PowerPC platform. That was Sculley's doing, along with eWorld and the Newton.
Hard lessons learned from that era.
"Bonjour" is what you say when you're in a Rendezvous.
Well, does it come with it?
Who cares? It doesn't even come with a kitchen sink!
"Then terrorists started coming in through Canada because it was so easy."
This assumption has more to do with spin doctoring and pointing fingers than actual facts. One glaring fact you've omitted is that the terrorists of 9/11 were granted student and visitor visas by none other than US Immigration. That, my friend, had nothing to do with Canada. Yet somehow the speculation that the terrorists came in through Canada got stuck in people's minds.
Not quite. PC users just became accustomed to the idea of expandability. And vendors have become accustomed to using that idea as a marketing tool. But in reality, the PC market has become so commoditized that purchasing a new system isn't as expensive as it used to be. Just take a look at Dell and observe how it's been able to increase its marketshare year after year. If PC users are in fact buying their machines because they can upgrade them in the future, then the market simply disapproves that logic.
This is what Apple has realized. That while they can't convince people to switch, they can at least persuade them to consider the Mac as a second computer.
Don't mistake our lack of political involvement as a sign of docility. It could very well be that we find our government agreeable most of the time. Of course we take issues with policies we don't agree with, but we do it in the politest possible way.
I pay about $30 US for 5 Mbit/sec service up here in Toronto. Although I did have to purchase the $100 (about $80 US) modem for the service. Of course in reality, I get about 4.5Mbits max.
Unless you're talking metaphorically, I fail to see how incest plays a role with the first two things you mentioned.
That doesn't explain Apple's strategy for .Mac. Which is obviously subscription based.
That's an age-old advertising mantra: Young people aspire to be old. Old people aspire to be young. No surprises in the article.
I drive a Civic myself and last I checked, they're not the cheapest "economy" car in the market. Don't get me wrong, I do agree with you that they offer great value for the price. But that doesn't follow the logic of your original post. In which you intimated that Apple products by their nature, attract people with "more money than sense." Which only leads me to believe that anyone who doesn't purchase the cheapest product (i.e. storebrands) has "more money than sense." In fact, why don't you drive a Ford Focus? It's been on Car & Driver's 10 Best for 5 years. Certainly a guy who's looking for "value" like you, will be impressed with the Ford.
As for your assertion that Apple charges for software that should've come with the box, might I ask you which software you're referring to? iLife? FYI, it's free when you buy a Mac.