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They're counting on the fact that for most users Apple products and OS X are much better than alternatives today. So they are theorizing that people will put up

They're counting on the fact that for most users Apple products and OS X are much better than alternatives today. So they are theorizing that people will put up with this kind of strategy. In a classic example for the pattern, this is how they are opening themselves up for attack. I wish someone would genuinely rise up to the challenge, if for nothing else, to force Apple to once again be nicer to its customers.

sounds 14y ago
Though there is money to be made doing this (and I also wish it might happen) ... The capital investment required to go head-to-head against Apple, for now, seems to be keeping competitors away. When a company like Samsung or Lenovo to makes some moves in this direction, it might be a good thing.
- DanBC 14y ago
  I really don't want Lenovo to go against Apple. Or, at least, I want them to keep the T series pure and business user orientated.
beloch 14y ago
To be honest, I didn't like OSX when it first came out and, despite my best efforts, could not force myself to like it when I gave it another chance a couple years ago. It's an OS that demands the user to conform to it's way of doing things rather than conforming to the users way of doing things. That's fine for some people, but not me. I like the feel of Apple's hardware and find their prices very reasonable, but they're simply not built to last. This is a tragic and fatal flaw for what would otherwise be great hardware for running another OS on. The only thing Apple truly has going for it is branding. Mac's are freakin' fashion accessories these days. I'm not sure if any other manufacturer can duplicate Apple's marketing genius, but I think we can already see Apple's trendiness fading. A big part of what built Apple's brand up over the last decade was being the plucky underdog fighting the MS man. Now Apple is "the man". Samsung's Apple-bashing ads might be heavy-handed, but they're almost identical to the ads Apple used to run against MS.

sounds 14y ago

Though there is money to be made doing this (and I also wish it might happen) ... The capital investment required to go head-to-head against Apple, for now, seems to be keeping competitors away. When a company like Samsung or Lenovo to makes some moves in this direction, it might be a good thing.

DanBC 14y ago
I really don't want Lenovo to go against Apple. Or, at least, I want them to keep the T series pure and business user orientated.

beloch 14y ago

To be honest, I didn't like OSX when it first came out and, despite my best efforts, could not force myself to like it when I gave it another chance a couple years ago. It's an OS that demands the user to conform to it's way of doing things rather than conforming to the users way of doing things. That's fine for some people, but not me. I like the feel of Apple's hardware and find their prices very reasonable, but they're simply not built to last. This is a tragic and fatal flaw for what would otherwise be great hardware for running another OS on. The only thing Apple truly has going for it is branding. Mac's are freakin' fashion accessories these days. I'm not sure if any other manufacturer can duplicate Apple's marketing genius, but I think we can already see Apple's trendiness fading. A big part of what built Apple's brand up over the last decade was being the plucky underdog fighting the MS man. Now Apple is "the man". Samsung's Apple-bashing ads might be heavy-handed, but they're almost identical to the ads Apple used to run against MS.