Re: Why Apples star is fading


"Rob Roy" <Robertroy@ comcast.net> wrote in message
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Mistake #1;

Allowing Windows to run on a Mac. It's the tacit admission that OSX is
lacking.
In spite of that fact, world sales have remained static or possibly
slipped.

Actually when they went to Intel and put out bootcamp, their sales in
creased. I don't think it was a mistake. The mistake is letting OS X
languish on the Mac PCs instead of putting it out there for the masses.
Linux is out there for the masses and it isn't any less stable because of
that.


Mistake #2;

Putting all their future hopes on the iPod; A cute and very popular mp3
player.
The iPod market is sliding fast. In a year or two, they will be giving
them
away in Cracker Jacks boxes.

Make that the iPod and iTunes. This will be a cash cow for Apple for
years to come. Apple is the best at selling music online hands down.


Mistake #3;

Putting all their faith in the iPhone.
There are so many better smart phone makers who can do it as good or
better
cheaper. How many apps can keep a limited market growing?. Most people I
know require one thing from a phone, to make a phone call or receive one.

I agree. The iPhone is a smartphone and there are no shortages of them
these days. It's overpriced and was/is restricted to a single phone service
provider. They wanted people to purchase a contract with some company THEY
choose rather than giving choice. At least that's how it was when it first
came out. I don't know about know.



Mistake #4;

Selling in WAL-MART.

Everyone knows true maccies wouldn't come within a mile of the place.

I doubt that.


And value shoppers just don't by Macs. There is very little value for the
money as pointedly pointed out by Microsoft.

If Apple does sell at Walmart, they need to put out machines that can
copete on performance and expandability areas.


Mistake #5;

Not grooming and promoting a replacement for Steve Jobs. No one at Apple
can currently equal Jobs in sheer salesmanship and showmanship. The
handwriting is on the wall, Jobs is finished.

What the *** is this supposed to mean?


Mistake #6;

Starting a pissing contest with Microsoft. They kept prodding a lumbering
elephant into movement, and now it can't be stopped. This was a major
mistake that has now cost them big.

Yea they really screwed up here taking on Windows and PC makers with
those comical and inaccurate commercials. OS X doesn't get malware they say,
what a load of horse ***. They say that OS X doesn't crash. That's an even
bigger load of horse ***. Maybe Apple should get out of the computer
business and just sell iPods, music and fertilizer because they apparenly
have a surpluss of bull*** in Cupertino.


Mistake #7;

Failing to come up with a new operating system. OSX has come as far as it
can. OSX 10.5.7 is the same as the last couple, nothing really new except
the Apple hype.
What are they doing with the billions they have been sitting on?

Apple heavily relies on a cult for their sales. People who are
irrational and are brainwashed.


Mistake #8;

Trying to compete in the netbook market with a tablet at twice the money.

Apple didn't compete in the netbook market. They made
laptops/notebooks but they were not netbooks. Netbooks are usually low
performance laptops designed to go on the Inernet. Because they are of lower
performance, they can be really cheap. They can be had for under $200. If
Apple did put out a netbook, it would probably cost $600 and nobody would
buy it.


Mistake #9;

Once upon a time Apple had a real nice computer with a real nice operating
system.
They have failed to follow their core values and promote their computers
and
os. So many years have gone by and they still only have a very small slice
of the pie while others have gone on to greatness.

When the likes of Asus and Gateway gobble up large pieces of a market
where
Apple should at least dominate over them shows that something is
drastically
wrong.

Apple's main mistake is putting out novelty computers that you can't put
a PCI card in or an extra HD. When us techs were debating about proprietary
vs. non-proprietary computers, we called the Mac, "The Ultimate Proprietary
Computer". That has not changed. But if they want to keep making computers
and sell them, they better change.

John



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