[citation][nom]cyprod[/nom]Wolfgang, I'm sorry, but flawless execution the reason for Apples dominance? No. You say their downfall all hinges on them shooting themselves in the foot once. I think you've forgotten the last two years of Apple products. It comes down to a religious like devotion to their products.The iphone 4. Well, I think my office mate summed it up best. My office got shut down, we were taking phone interviews while we waited to collect our severance, and I was taking a phone interview on my cellphone, and he looks at me in horror saying "With the reception problems we have, why on earth would you take an interview on your cell phone?" And I just looked at him and said "What reception problems?". He owns an iphone 4. At the time I had some free phone with contract from at&t. Apparently Apple producing a cell phone that can't receive phone calls isn't a mis-step?OSX 10.6. The operating system that if you had guest accounts enabled, then did an upgrade to it, it would delete your primary account. Yeah. Flawless execution.The ipad 1, a portable media consumption device that can't be taken outside, because the screen is unreadable in the sun and because it's a giant aluminum box with a glass screen, if exposed to direct sunlight on a hot day, say roughly 70 degrees F, would overheat, activate the thermal protection circuits and refuse to boot....because there was no cooling.Explain to me how this is a record of flawless execution? What this is, is an extremely forgiving user base.[/citation]
1. The iPhone 4 gets very good reception depending on your relation to a cell phone tower (better than most Android, even if you hold it the wrong way). I quite often need to loan my iP4 to people who I work with because they can't get signal. (Again, while the iP4 does get better reception with the same signal strength, it was mostly because of location.)
2. I have no problem reading my screen in direct sunlight. It does not shut down at 70F. I did have it shut down when the temperature was 110, however, it was not just in direct sunlight, it was in a car with the windows rolled up. After I brought it outside and let it cool off, it ran fine. (I was worried I had damaged the battery, however, I have had no loss of battery life. Sometimes You get lucky.)
My company has mostly dumped our Windows computers because we have found, Macs have far fewer problems with software and hardware. We have had far better results using iPhones than other products and we have found the iPad to be one of the most useful products we have. At this point, the only non Apple products we use are our Linux servers. We do have some people who choose to use Microsoft Word on the mac, however, Open Office is our preferred solution.
People tend to exaggerate problems with Apple devices and ignore those on other platforms. If one in 10,000 people have an issue with Apple, it makes headline news on all networks.
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