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| Apple Inc is fast on the way to becoming Apple Sink. Many more iIdeas like the iRefund on the iPhone iRipoff and the iButtMonkeys will become iColorMeGone and iCeo Jobs won't look quite so iBrilliant to the iShills.
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too many iTards
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| | | | | Re: Apple Inc said by en102:Problem is that people are actually buying this stuff... too many iTards Same could be said for people who PCs and Microsoft software...  | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Apple Inc said by hayabusa3303:said by MadMoneyFan :Same could be said for people who PCs and Microsoft software... Just because you have a pc doesnt mean you run windows. There is linux You did see the word "and" between "PCs" and "Microsoft software". Kinda hints that, in the context of the sentence, both at once, like a PC running Microsoft software...
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kudos:3 | You buy apple, you get apple. That's it.. it's funny because the very group of people that purchase and swear loyalty to apple product are usually the same group that profess their anger towards others who try to monopolize the market and rope the consumer into one product.
Here, the apple users see apple as a choice while forgetting that apple is a one trick pony.
I don't bash apple.. they do good at some of the things they do and short fall on others. Of the MP3 players, I tend to like the iPod but I do not like the fact that the batter is not user replaceable.
But, when I look at the two technologies, I'd rather take the "other sides" products over the iProduct any day simply because there is more choice attached to it.
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Apple Inc said by fiberguy:You buy apple, you get apple. That's it.. it's funny because the very group of people that purchase and swear loyalty to apple product are usually the same group that profess their anger towards others who try to monopolize the market and rope the consumer into one product. Well, the next release of Mac OS X coming out next month is officially certified as a "pure UNIX", making it about unmonopolized as you can get... | |
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kudos:3 | Re: Apple Inc How many years did it take apple to realize that their one minded model was going to last? Still, it's the "next" release.. Now.. let's talk about hardware.. and supporting middleware.. the apple store.. etc.
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kudos:3 | Re: Apple Inc I wonder if apple gave us the iRack.... | |
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said by MadDog3057:I love how to make a point you need an i in front of every other damn word. Apple is fast on the way to becoming Apple Sink. Many more ideas like the refund on the iPhone ripoff and the "buttmonkeys" will become 'color me gone' and CEO Jobs won't look quite so brilliant to the shills.
iDon't ... I mean, I don't.
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Yeah, I mean, 1,000,000 iPhones sold is certainly on the way to becoming a quagmire of bad ideas. Next step to its demise is quarterly revenue exceeding five billion dollars. Oh wait, too late, they're already there.
It's all fine and well you don't like Apple products. I am not particularly fond of anything but their computers. But you'd do well not to ignore the iFinancials.
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| Re: Apple Inc Apple can sell 1 billion phones and that's fine with me; why should I waste one minute of energy on a company and its Elite® who call early adopters "Buttmonkeys" after said company lops 33% off the price of a product marketed with hype designed to do exactly that: create mass early adoption? I shouldn't and I won't. And I own 3 Apple computers (dumped two recently) and I'm typing this message on one now.
The point isn't the computers or the company, so much, it's the stockholders and fanboys who egg on others to be early adopters and then call them all "buttmonkeys" after an unprecedented 10 week price drop on a product that Apple claims, as do you, is seeing miraculous sales.
Sore asses lead to sure losses.
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| Re: Apple Inc said by Titus Pullo:...on a company and its Elite® who call early adopters "Buttmonkeys" Would you please provide a link to this. I am very interested.
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| Re: Apple Inc said by gateguy:said by Titus Pullo:...on a company and its Elite® who call early adopters "Buttmonkeys" Would you please provide a link to this. I am very interested. Thanks in advance. Sure. Type buttmonkeys into the search box on the top left of any BBR page. Ignore all the times I mention it, of course, and you'll find the posts. I'm talking about the Apple Elites®, not the company. What they say about customers probably doesn't bear repeating (ever talk to a Genius bar worker? Brutal). | |
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Miami, FL | Re: Apple Inc said by M A R S:They fucked me out $200 and i have never felt like more of a fool in my life. Of course, I'm sure Steve Jobs was holding a gun to your head making you be one of the first ones to get an iPhone.
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| Re: Apple Inc said by MadDog3057:said by M A R S:They fucked me out $200 and i have never felt like more of a fool in my life. Of course, I'm sure Steve Jobs was holding a gun to your head making you be one of the first ones to get an iPhone. No, why would you think that?
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Miami, FL | Re: Apple Inc said by M A R S:said by MadDog3057:said by M A R S:They fucked me out $200 and i have never felt like more of a fool in my life. Of course, I'm sure Steve Jobs was holding a gun to your head making you be one of the first ones to get an iPhone. No, why would you think that? Because obviously you were FORCED to buy it when you did and because of that you were screwed for $200.
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1 edit | I bought an iPhone on June 30th, for $499 (4GB) and now they're on sale for $299. Did they fuck me out of $200? No. When you live at the bleeding edge you get burnt sometimes man. Honestly, take a little responsibility please. Did you have to rush out to buy the latest and greatest toy? No. Did I? No. Was the iPhone "too expensive" when you bought it? If so then why did you buy it to begin with?
I'm sure you've heard of the $100 Apple store credit they're giving to everyone who bought an iPhone early on, that has to count for something too. | |
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Warner Robins, GA | Re: Apple Inc Again you're just displaying a lack of responsibility. If you didn't feel the iPhone was too expensive 2 months ago then why is that somehow invalid today? My Mom paid $3,000 for a 60" Sony LCD projo TV just over a year ago, I bought the 55" version of the same Sony LCD projo TV for $1,100 just a few months ago. Did my Mom get screwed out of her money in that case? I mean the 60" TV is 50% cheaper than it was when she bought it.... | |
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Warner Robins, GA | Re: Apple Inc So? It is technology, that is life. Whenever you buy something like the iPhone or a car or a TV you have to ask yourself: is the price right TODAY, if I think the price might come down in the near future should I hold off for that, will my wife kill me for buying it?
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| Re: Apple Inc Normally, I would agree that you buy something, and that is that. I think with the iPhone we have a difference.
First, we have Apple. Normally they don't just lop $200 off the purchase price of anything. You buy an Apple product and the price is the same for a year or two. Obviously the new product selling at $xxx.xx is not the same as yours, but it carries the same moniker and cost the same price.
Second we have the Cellular phone market. Yes, today that phone is $300, but it will normally stay at $300 for 6 months to a year before the monthly markdown. 10 weeks for a hot selling phone is not the normal markdown period.
These folks got burnt by a product realignment.
Third, Apple didn't decide the day before to do the markdown, they had to know it some time out. What I think they didn't count on was the consumer backlash, which really surprises me. I know had I bought that silly thing I would have been irate, but then I became angry when T-Mobile started giving away my cell phone the day after I paid $30.00 for it.
So, really, I think it is time to give these folks a break.
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Miami, FL | Re: Apple Inc said by xrobertcmx:Normally, I would agree that you buy something, and that is that. I think with the iPhone we have a difference. First, we have Apple. Normally they don't just lop $200 off the purchase price of anything. You buy an Apple product and the price is the same for a year or two. Obviously the new product selling at $xxx.xx is not the same as yours, but it carries the same moniker and cost the same price. Second we have the Cellular phone market. Yes, today that phone is $300, but it will normally stay at $300 for 6 months to a year before the monthly markdown. 10 weeks for a hot selling phone is not the normal markdown period. These folks got burnt by a product realignment. Third, Apple didn't decide the day before to do the markdown, they had to know it some time out. What I think they didn't count on was the consumer backlash, which really surprises me. I know had I bought that silly thing I would have been irate, but then I became angry when T-Mobile started giving away my cell phone the day after I paid $30.00 for it. So, really, I think it is time to give these folks a break. I agree. The reason people got pissed off wasn't because it had a price drop, it was because it dropped so much so quickly. I mean if sony would have done that with the ps3 I bet you a lot of those people would have been pissed off too.
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Warner Robins, GA | Re: Apple Inc And while in a world where people have to treat each with with fairness and respect that makes sense, but in business there is ultimately only profit that matters. And while Apple may do a GREAT job of customer care in 99.9% of cases (and in my experience it is really that close to 100%) they are bound to make mistakes. Yeah they dropped the price sooner than ANYONE would have though (though everyone knew a price drop had to be around the bend sooner or later, and personally I was expecting it at least a month before the holiday buying season) but at least they gave everyone $100 store credit, and that's not too bad. | |
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Welcome to the world of BLEEDING EDGE Cell phones. Its typical. Different products have different lifecycles.
Laptops, TVs, HDTVs, Plasmas, LCDs, Cell Phones and everything that has a LUXURY element to it is always higher priced at entry into market. People pay the premium to have the FIRST ones.. The ego or the pleasure kick of getting it before anyone.
Prices then go down... and pretty much never come up. Why? Because the next BIG thing is ALWAYS coming out.
There are people that go ahead and buy at a premium to have it NOW.. or people who wait for the 4th July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving & Day After Christmas sales.
Why do so many good pieces of clothing become CHEAP 1-day after Christmas? 1 day? Because, that is how it goes - You get to wear the latest fashion on Christmas / New Years.. or afterwards. You have that CHOICE. | |
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Every guy I know who just graduated from college & a lot of people still in undergrad want to get an iPhone. The smarter ones waited for the following reasons:
1. Let the bugs of the first release pan out
2. iPod prices fall every couple of months so will the iPhone prices
Now I'd say that is coming from 18-20 year olds. I'd think you were smarter than that when watching PRICING for tech gadgets fall. | |
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What do you get for the $200? The EGO KICK of having an iPhone before it becomes TOO COMMON.
As always every new Nokia phone would command a premium. A lot of people get it to SHOW OFF.. A lot of people know that the prices will drop in 8-10 weeks and they do not need the EGO KICK of saying "I got it way before most of you commoners did". | |
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kudos:2 | said by Titus Pullo:why should I waste one minute of energy on a company Why are you still typing? I'm sure you're way past one minute. | |
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| Re: Apple Inc said by openbox9:said by Titus Pullo:why should I waste one minute of energy on a company Why are you still typing? I'm sure you're way past one minute. That's wasting time on people like you, not the company
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I think Apple was stupid to allow only one cell co to have it in the first place but I'm sure Apple got big bucks for doing it. Apple makes all the money off the iPhone was basically the agreement. No wonder VZ Wireless didn't want the iPhone. "You want us to sell a phone that is forever linked to just iTunes? Nah, we'll pass."
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But they would be stepping in to an area where their expertise is minimal. And voice and data access customers are notoriously a demanding and generally dissatisfied group - very unlike the typical Apple fanboys. Apple might be worried that stepping in to an area where they could get a huge black eye might tarnish their image and spillover in to their other product lines.
Given the limited experience that Apple has accumulated so far in this area, I doubt they will make such a big commitment this soon. I doubt they would want to take the risk. I think they would rather Google take such a risk and then Apple would partner with them just about the time their AT&T commitment would be expiring.
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join:2005-05-17 | Re: Why would Apple do this? and why it wouldn't Which makes excellent sense and I'm sure that's what they're thinking. I can see them wanting to say "buy this and we'll handle it all for you".
Perhaps they're looking at buying it up and then subleasing it to someone else to handle all the work for them, in some way that'll save them from doing all the work but still allow them to slap the Apple name on it. | |
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1 edit | Re: Why would Apple do this? and why it wouldn't said by Sabre:Which makes excellent sense and I'm sure that's what they're thinking. I can see them wanting to say "buy this and we'll handle it all for you". Perhaps they're looking at buying it up and then subleasing it to someone else to handle all the work for them, in some way that'll save them from doing all the work but still allow them to slap the Apple name on it. Apple - OL?
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kudos:2 | Microappoogle Yes, a colaboration of three large companies, Microsoft, Apple , and Google to join forces to get that 700Mhz band.
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kudos:1 | Re: Microappoogle said by exocet_cm:Yes, a colaboration of three large companies, Microsoft, Apple , and Google to join forces to get that 700Mhz band. Though Microappoogle is hard to pronounce. Probably wouldn't be allowed under anti trust laws...
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| | Go WiMAX Apple should go WiMAX and not manage the network. WiMAX has great momentum and will be a much more 'open' network than EVDO/HSPDA. There are no royalties or licenses to pay.
Very odd that Apple would even think of running a network. That is one huge operation that takes a hugely different skillset than their background. It's an entirely different industry. Makes no sense at all. | |
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kudos:18 | ONE Thing Apple has... ... that *I* think has any value whatsoever - Movie trailers.
iPod? Fuck no!
iPhone? Not bloody likely!
Mac? LMAO! No.
This idea? Oh Hell No!
Probably have to run this through iTunes or have it forceably bundled.
Koolaid is getting thin there Steve.
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| What about Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo? I think if the 4 companies formed a partnership company to set forth and do this, it would put the incumbants on the defensive. It would also out this net neutrality bullshit to rest.
Or better yet, maybe they could all come together and BUY an incumbant like Sprint. If you can't beat em buy em!
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To pay for it, charge a few bucks for each piece of hardware that uses the band. This can vary by device type. Innovation of the spectrum will get it paid off in 10 years.
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Love it or hate it, Apple Inc. is doing well. Good for them and their shareholders.
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