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Really? I'd argue the opposite. I argued the opposite last year, when everybody said that Apple's focusing on the high end would crash them during the recession
by unalone 17y ago
Really? I'd argue the opposite. I argued the opposite last year, when everybody said that Apple's focusing on the high end would crash them during the recession.
Apple focuses on quality, and charges decently for what they offer, I bought this computer a year ago, and it's still performing splendidly, and I expect it to continue for a long while. Meanwhile, the people I know who are looking for computers are thinking more and more about the low-end Macs, because while they're expensive, they're not computers you'll have to replace any time soon. If you only have a little money, you make sure it goes to something really good instead of to waste.
Apple's position is only tenuous if you think another company can make a better phone and price it more cheaply. I think neither will happen.
- dschobel 17y agoThe $999 macbook is an example of exactly the sort of downward market movement which I'm speaking about.
- unalone 17y agoYou mentioned no downward market movement whatsoever. Reread your comment.
- dschobel 17y agoThe reasonably rational person would infer from my comparison of Apple's two high-end product offerings vs Nokia's balanced offering and my saying that the former leads to a more tenuous market position that the intent was clearly to advocate introducing a lower-end unit with a cheaper data plan (the analogue to the $999 macbook).
- unalone 17y agoNo, they wouldn't, because you didn't say that. They would instead infer merely that you were suggesting Apple wouldn't remain in their position long, because that's all you said.
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- allwein 17y agoI think unalone has a point. My reading of your comment was along the lines of "With only 1 product (essentially), Apple is in a tenuous position because if the iPhone is unsuccessful or is beaten (by Android or whatever) then they're completely out of the market. Whereas if Nokia had 50% of their phones fail completely, they'd still have 60+ phones to enable them to compete in the market."
- bjelkeman-again 17y agoSo if a handset manufacturer manages to build a better iPhone then suddenly Apple will sell no more iPhones? I don't think so. None of the handset manufacturers have the Apple ecosystem: App store, iTunes Store (video+music), nice desktop integration, OS X. A phone with worse camera, less memory, slower processor, more expensive etc. than the rivals, from Apple I think could still outsell them, because of the Apple ecosystem. Oh wait... ;)
- ghshephard 17y agoWell, for what it's worth, I inferred that what you were saying was that Apple, betting everything on a single, high end product was risky, and that if people decided to start focusing on value purchases, or Apple couldn't convince people that their brand/product was so much better, that they would have come crashing down.