Re: Dell is dying???

At 30 Nov 2007 07:39:29 -0500 iMojo wrote:

Apple is a brand just like any other.


Not from what you'd read around here! ;-)

Mac users typically make an
informed, educated choice to go with the best computing platform
available. They make incredible products, that are a pleasure to use.

Ok. For a good number of consumers this seems to be true. My experiences
with Apple products are very limited.


I pity Windows who very rarely make informed choice. They simply go with
the cheapest POS because, well everybody uses Windows so it must be good
right???

One could also argue that the competitive PC hardware platform and cheap
Windows OEM licensing makes computing affordable to the masses. What's the
cheapest Mac these days? $500-600? Promotionally priced, entire low-end
PC systems (PC, monitor, printer) can be had for $300. That's a big
difference to a lot of people. Ray Croc sold a lot more burgers than
Wolfgang Puck sells snything, because mass markets are driven by price
rather than quality.


But the tides are turning. The grass roots movement on the Mac platform
is too huge to turn back now. Microsoft is now irrelevant.

No, but perhaps it would be if Apple released a $300 "Starter" Mac. Again,
quality alone can't make a mass-market product "irrelevant," any more than
BMW can make Honda irrelevant.

Just a curious question- why would a very successful for-profit company,
with billions in market-cap, need a "grass-roots movement" to evangelize
it's products? Where's Burger King's "grassroots movement to unseat
McDonalds? Or Pepsi's?

You wintards are paranoid over. This is what keeps you coming back to
CSMA.

I came to bash Oxford, I stayed for the entertainment!

This is an amazing dynamic that I, as a Windows user, don't quite get. Is
there even a Windows advocacy group, and if so, why? A computer is an
inanimate object. Radio talk-show host Bruce Williams used to have a
saying to prevent people from making the wrong purchase decisions about
"things," (but particularly real estate): "don't love anything that can't
love you back."

My computer is a tool, sometimes for work, sometimes for entertainment. It
no more needs a "grassroot" advocacy "movement" than my hammer needs one to
make screwdrivers "irrelevant."

If you love the product or company as much as you seem to, I recommend that
you go work for them. At least then you could channel your "love" into
something more productive for both you and Apple than "baiting the
Wintards."



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