Comments on: Apple: Is The Worm Turning?

By: dave tribbett

dave tribbett — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:04:11 +0000

Great Post, I'd like to refer to it in my next post. Here is a link to a series of articles describing IBM, Microsoft, Apple and Google. This is the main article with links to the related articles that have been published. the first one is Here, overview and description of market position.

By: Previously Loyal Apple Customer

Previously Loyal Apple Customer — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:17:46 +0000

I could not agree more. On top of that, Apple products were once very high qualtity and superior machines. Now I see new apple products (including my own) freezing, slowing, and breaking left and right. Thought the bugs may not be the same as PCs they are certainly as plentiful. To boot, Apple does not seem to give a damn about their customers. They say that they stand by their products by offering the repairs, but quite frankly I PAID for those repairs already when I bought apple care. Apple doesn’t care about their customers, unless those customers are other millionaire corporations. If apple did care about their customers they would not be losing loyalty on a egular basis.

By: Jim Crosson

Jim Crosson — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:29:27 +0000

Are you serious, or is this a ploy to create controversy? I switched to Mac’s for my business and personal uses a couple of years ago and I would never go back to Windows or PC’s. In fact, I would just stop using computers all together if I had to go back to using Microsoft products. It’s not just that Apple products are better because they work, it’s that Microsoft every Microsoft product I have ever used has eventually failed.

By: gunther

gunther — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:29:53 +0000

Apple makes great products but their arrogance (nice list of examples up in Caleb’s post) repulses me. Missing one or two sales a year to me of course doesn’t make any difference to them. But I feel like if I did make the purchases, I would be rewarding their “bad behavior” like a parent who buys candy for their kid who throws a tantrum.

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Margaret — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:42:53 +0000

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By: Konteyner

Konteyner — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:40:12 +0000

I believe the main reason why apple is locking its systems (both macosx and iphone) is software consistency and side effects.

The basic idea is that if you give away too much control over the core of your system, then you end-up with myriads of unsecure applications. If you need examples - see how windows looks like these days.

Instead, apple was always allowing only limited integration with its systems. Of course - you can still write some applications for mac, and communicate with the system core through provided API, but you don't have possibility to really change the core itself. Thats why Apple used to be so much more stable than windows.

In case of iphone its the same case - they just don't want every kid on the block to write sh*#ty apps, they want to have control over what people are writing and how secure it is - in order to be able to say: yes, its stable, we guarantee that.

There's no evil in this, its just customer service. Just like when you go to the restaurant you want someone (chef) to have control over what all the cooks are cooking.

By: Sarah Edwards

Sarah Edwards — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:52:07 +0000

Great post - I identify with the principles of what you're saying, but I'm not sure if events will transpire to be that simple. Although the arrogance of Apple irritates many, there's no escaping the fact that their products really are great. Producing products of this high standard that are consistently ahead of the rest of the market will always be a good brand strategy.

By: Chris Gomis

Chris Gomis — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:31:24 +0000

Seems like they’re following the same strategy of Apple’s birth of the personal computer market. Make a damn good product but overly protect their garden leading to defections to a more commons friendly platform of Microsoft (by friendly i mean relative to the market at the time). History is rhyming here, though Google is playing Microsoft this time around.

By: ray

ray — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:54:48 +0000

john, i don’t disagree w/ you, (apple’s closed philosophy is reaching tipping point), but their ability to create ‘insanely great’ products is still (and always will be) the best business model in the world – this X10 counters anything they’re not doing in conversational media.

re. brand analogy…lets not forget that a big part of brand value in today’s world is the rate at which you ‘innovate’ or as John Gerzema ‘energized differentiation’ – or direction. do apple have that? heaps…

will this counter what you’re talking about? i have no idea…

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:37:49 +0000

"smarter than you, better looking than you, and above your station"

That's exactly what the Mac vs. PC ads told people in the surveys. People liked PC more than Mac.

However, lots of people I know who resisted the iPhone are finally getting one.