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Without simply citing greed, I find this difficult to justify or explain. Apple is a premium, luxury brand. They make opinionated hardware and software that has
by CSSer 2y ago
Without simply citing greed, I find this difficult to justify or explain. Apple is a premium, luxury brand. They make opinionated hardware and software that has offended many. They’ve certainly never given a phone away, but they’re afraid of offending someone by turning them down if they have bad credit? Rubbish.
Forgive me, I’m not trying to shoot the messenger. Nuance or not, I think GP is right. It wasn’t very customer centric.
- lotsofpulp 2y ago> Apple is a premium, luxury brand. People all across the income/wealth spectrum use Apple products, in huge proportions.
- crowcroft 2y agoApple is worth $3t because both of those things are true. Apple and Huawei both sell smartphones, which one has the margins of Ferrari and which one has the margins of Toyota?
- polishdude20 2y agoIs GS though a good luxury "brand"? I don't know much about them but they seem like a Big Name. Maybe that's all they wanted? The prestige of being tied to GS