[citation][nom]master9716[/nom]Why should apple make this much money? What benefit does this have on us? bc they made an iphone 1 that had awfull battery life and sold it for 500 dollars to sheeps? its all the herd of sheeps fault stupid kids that keep bying apple products. If this money were going to other companies that actually inovate and bring features to the whole word by competition and lowering prices to consumers. intel,amd , panasonic,sony ,samsung,nvidia. Samsung is actually doing huge inovations right now,they are the ones that deserve billions in profits due to sheeps ALONE ,Infact the Koreans are making better products than the Japanese atm for lower prices. Apple makes products at higher prices spends million on Advertisements and the herd of sheep go buy their new products for rediculous prices.[/citation]
It is not a question of deserving anything. We are talking about business. Build a product, have a compelling message. Make your products work with other product you build. Samsung is not inovating, they make the best TV's out there, great phones and decent appliances but a large amount of their other products absolutely suck.
You guys all Apple's product overpriced. If you pay attention the reason why you think that the hardware is outdated and overpriced is that Apple does not change the prices as hardware improves. The release something that is cutting edge or close to it and don't change the price. Just update the hardware the following year. Then you guys come here screaming about how you can build the same thing for $350 bucks. I am sorry, how is a quad core machine with wireless keyboard and mouse with a solid aluminum encloser and a really nice IPS panel and a built in HD camera starting at $1200.00 sound overpriced not to mention that it comes with an operating system that has double digit virus/malicious applications written for it.
Mac Pro is a whole different story. Can you build a quad core 3.6ghz machine for less money sure. But you are not using server grade equipment. There is a price premium for that kind of stuff. I don't hear of anyone here on Toms talking about building 6,12,or 16 core machines. You can't call something overprice when you have not apples to apples basis for comparison.
Computers are devices that people spend allot of time on. What Apple has done a good job with is creating a ecosystem where all the thing that people use or need to do daily is done easy and works seemlesly and they do it in a package is built rock solid and with thoughful engineering. it is the accumilation of a bunch of small things that they do that makes it so appealing to people.
Apple is doing well for a reason, they provide, look, feel, usability, marketing, and ecosystem, stability and really solid customer service. They pay attention to the details, period. Are all their products perfect...no. But they just work and they are accessable.
Example.... vast majority of people on this site...clearly smart people, including myself that use Windows on their PC probably don't do regular incremental backups. Basic concept, we all know we should do them but we don't. why, cause Windows has not had a elegant backup solution since it's existance. Does it's backup solution works...sure. I am a network engineer and I can not even tell you how the restore works. Cause it is not in a place where would even thing to use it. Backups are not something that you should think about. It is something that just should be done. I doubt any of you would disagree with that. Apple provide timemachine built in, easy to use, easy to configure, easy to understand, and does it's thing automatically. It is no intrusive at all even though it is important. Again... small thoughful engineering. They spend the time to thinking about how people....no enthusiast... people use their computers and they make the experiance great.
I have yet to meet a single IT professional, Network engineer, Security Engineer, telephony engineer that has used both platforms and not leave liking Apples solution. Even the most hardend PC guy. When people try it, they stick. And that is why Apple has just past IBM in revenue.
Are they invincible...absolutely not but right now there is no one company that can dethrone them. They are firing on all cylinders.
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