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Apple is the company that sells $3000 laptops that are comparable to most $1200-1500 laptops, but are slightly prettier and less serviceable and $70 keyboards w
by dthunt 15y ago
Apple is the company that sells $3000 laptops that are comparable to most $1200-1500 laptops, but are slightly prettier and less serviceable and $70 keyboards with broken debouncers.
If you're going to write an article about 'ignoring profit' cite some specific products and how they were priced cheaply, or get off the frickin' pot.
- dthunt 15y agolulz. The author's bio. This says it all. Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and is regarded as the world’s foremost expert on innovation and growth. James Allworth is a Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School.
- enko 15y ago> $3000 laptops that are comparable to most $1200-1500 laptops, but are slightly prettier and less serviceable So all those people who buy them are just stupid then, are they? What nonsense. This is little better than trolling.
- dthunt 15y agoYou said it, not me. There are people who care very much about the visuals. They're not stupid for paying extra.
- Gigablah 15y agoPerhaps a better comparison would be the Apple Store's $400 price tag for 8GB RAM modules when you can get it for around $100 normally. I don't think the "customer service" is worth $300.
- gnaffle 15y agoMy guess is that many executives at competing companies think just like this: Apple just sells "slightly prettier" laptops at a premium. So they give their designers the job of making the products "slightly prettier", and then they are surprised when these products fail to compete with Apple.
- redguava 15y agoThis comment may have been relevant many years ago, but these days companies are struggling to compete with Apple on price (notably Macbook Airs, iPads, etc).
- john2x 15y agoI'm in the market for a nice lightweight laptop for development. I was amazed to see that the best one I can get is a Macbook Air. Other brands don't even come close to it, with regards to price:quality ratio. Heck, even ignoring quality the Air still beats other ultrabooks. My friends have a hard time admitting that an Apple product is actually the saner choice.