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Luxury brands usually do better than people expect during a recession, surprising to see. Apple product prices are far too high for the struggles of the workin
by VLM 4y ago
Luxury brands usually do better than people expect during a recession, surprising to see. Apple product prices are far too high for the struggles of the working poor or proletariat to notice. Apple's always been a 1%-er aspirational purchase and that income sector is doing fine.
The problem I've seen WRT apple is techie type people see specs and salivate over the numbers, but the subjective experience of this years products is no different than the old products for the general public. Not even styling for conspicuous consumption sales. My wife's friendd with this anesthesiologist's wife, and her response to the new products fits the above; aside from numbers she doesn't understand or care about, there's nothing exciting about the latest model year, so she's not buying.
- icemelt8 4y agoits a hot take though, a Macbook Air has a better value then most Windows PCs
- ducknalddon 4y agoIt's a shame how the market for PC's worked out. If I want a premium car there are a ton of brands I can choose from. Don't want a BMW then go for a Lexus instead, or an Audi or Jaguar and so on. If I want a premium PC then it's Apple or I can grit my teeth and go for a Lenovo with all the Microsoft crapware installed. My gut feeling is Sony, HP and all the others gave up too early and allowed WinTel to dominate. We have been paying the price ever since.
- pbronez 4y agoFramework?
- ducknalddon 4y ago>Apple's always been a 1%-er aspirational purchase and that income sector is doing fine. Apple has more than 50% of the US market for phones. 10% for PC's.