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Old 04-10-2013, 10:43 AM
 
Location: New York City
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Now come out with a $600 laptop, mm'kay?
Cheeper is one thing, but a $600 laptop from Apple will never happen.
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Old 04-11-2013, 08:04 AM
 
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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I know that, my man.
Had they done that 4 years ago when everyone else did they would probably have a quarter of the PC market by now....
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Old 04-11-2013, 12:34 PM
 
Location: New York City
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I know that, my man.
Had they done that 4 years ago when everyone else did they would probably have a quarter of the PC market by now....
And Apple would be in a race to the bottom with Dell and HP. There’s no margin in low-end computers.
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Old 04-11-2013, 02:06 PM
 
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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The new HTC ONE is only one android phone on the market that exceeds Apple in build quality.

Samsungs have some pretty neat features, but the overall build quality is pretty crappy (as with most android phones)
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Old 04-11-2013, 03:46 PM
 
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I know that, my man.
Had they done that 4 years ago when everyone else did they would probably have a quarter of the PC market by now....
And you think they WANT that? I mean is Apple hurting, businesswise, in anyway?

Apple’s profits exceed the entire PC industry - SlashGear

Apparently not, so if their business model is working BETTER than the windows machine companies are, why would they do what is making other companies less money?
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Old 04-12-2013, 07:35 AM
 
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And you think they WANT that? I mean is Apple hurting, businesswise, in anyway?
No. As I said , they prefer to be the "nichey" product.

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Apparently not, so if their business model is working BETTER than the windows machine companies are, why would they do what is making other companies less money?
To become #1 and put MS in 2nd place? They are the only ones in any kind of a position to do that. TO make serious inroads into business?
And they have something that HP, Dell and the others don't have to help offset the costs of producing a cheaper alternative: iTunes.

As I said I WISH they would do this. Me, Mr. Anti-Apple. Not.
Never said I expect them to.
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Old 04-14-2013, 09:53 AM
 
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I know in the case of a 40 inch hd tv set samsug used cheap or underated capactors that caused the TVs to fail
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Old 04-14-2013, 10:45 AM
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Can you find 3 reasons why to choose Apple?
1) Better hardware design
2) Better software design/quality
3) Better support

Done.

The price argument falls apart if one is interested in purchasing quality hardware. Notice how the poster who tried to make the MBP look dramatically more expensive picked a consumer-grade Dell and compared it to Apple's latest greatest MBP with a 2880 x 1800 display.
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Old 04-14-2013, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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1)...The price argument falls apart if one is interested in purchasing quality hardware. Notice how the poster who tried to make the MBP look dramatically more expensive picked a consumer-grade Dell and compared it to Apple's latest greatest MBP with a 2880 x 1800 display.
The old method of camparison was to say that a Windows machine had more software applications available - which was true, but most were total junk aps that are now relagated to the bargain bins at the local dollarstore.
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Old 04-14-2013, 02:10 PM
 
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1) Better hardware design
2) Better software design/quality
3) Better support

Done.

The price argument falls apart if one is interested in purchasing quality hardware. Notice how the poster who tried to make the MBP look dramatically more expensive picked a consumer-grade Dell and compared it to Apple's latest greatest MBP with a 2880 x 1800 display.
When you're comparing it to a consumer-grade Dell, sure. But there's certainly PCs that beat Macs in those three areas. Macbook quality doesn't hold up to ThinkPads. Apple support doesn't hold up to IBM support. Stop comparing low end PCs to Macs. It makes no sense.
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