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Apple leads, everyone else follows. Usually with better devices.
I am not an Apple fan but I do appreciate the way they set the bar. Then everyone jumps onboard.
How popular were touchscreen phones prior to the iPhone? Not very. Now everyone makes several.
Just like the iPad. Now everyone is scrambling to come out with thier own. And they will. And they will be better. (Google: Microsoft Courier)
But Apple seems to always lead the way (and as a result captures huge market share). Can't argue with the Apple formula for success. Or that nobody, and I mean nobody (and this is the real root of Apple's success) does marketing better then Apple.
Have you seen the Windows7 commercial where the French girl is all excited because she 'helped design' Win7? Pay close attention to that. She asked Microsoft for a computer that doesn't crash.
Seriously? Are you kidding me? Someone signed off on that commercial?
I can't wait for the flash replacer. flash is so bloated watching 5 videos will take up more then 512MB of my paging file alone. I gotta kill the tab process in task manager to free up that paging file space. and HTML 5 looks like it will take forever.
I would rather have a tablet that would have a browser with flashblock. I use one for IE8 and it works well. If I wanna see the flash, I can click on the link to enable it on demand. Much better.
Apple leads, everyone else follows. Usually with better devices.
I am not an Apple fan but I do appreciate the way they set the bar. Then everyone jumps onboard.
How popular were touchscreen phones prior to the iPhone? Not very. Now everyone makes several.
Just like the iPad. Now everyone is scrambling to come out with thier own. And they will. And they will be better. (Google: Microsoft Courier)
But Apple seems to always lead the way (and as a result captures huge market share). Can't argue with the Apple formula for success. Or that nobody, and I mean nobody (and this is the real root of Apple's success) does marketing better then Apple.
Have you seen the Windows7 commercial where the French girl is all excited because she 'helped design' Win7? Pay close attention to that. She asked Microsoft for a computer that doesn't crash.
Seriously? Are you kidding me? Someone signed off on that commercial?
With all due respect, Apple does NOT lead the way. Sony was first in small, portable listening devices. Apple copied. HP was before apple with tablets, Apple simply marketed better.
Apple has never had the best devices, they are just good at marketing. With any apple product you pay a third more simply because it is silver, shiny, and has an apple logo on it.
The iPad is a joke. It fills no market need. It is nothing more than a glorified toy.
With all due respect, Apple does NOT lead the way. Sony was first in small, portable listening devices. Apple copied. HP was before apple with tablets, Apple simply marketed better.
Apple has never had the best devices, they are just good at marketing. With any apple product you pay a third more simply because it is silver, shiny, and has an apple logo on it.
The iPad is a joke. It fills no market need. It is nothing more than a glorified toy.
Like wise with all due respect. For the most part you agreed with me except for that one comment. I don't mean they lead the way as in "they were the first". Not at all.
Diamond had the first real MP3 player long before Apple ever did. The Rio something or other from 1999 I believe. But Apple "leads the way" so to speak because they market the heck out of stuff. The popularity of the MP3 player sky rocketed after Apple made (and marketed) the iPod. Palm made touch screen phones for years before Apple ever did. Yet no one else really tried to make one. Then Apple did, suddenly everyone is making them.
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