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> So their interests are more aligned with yours. Exactly how does a company that makes money through selling you products have its interests more aligned to y

> So their interests are more aligned with yours. Exactly how does a company that makes money through selling you products have its interests more aligned to yours?

Ensorceled 11y ago
Apple is "more aligned" as in more aligned than Google, not "more aligned" as in perfectly aligned. Stop viewing the world in black and white.
etchalon 11y ago
Because that company makes its from me, directly. It has to cater its products to ME, and not to advertisers, or enterprises, or anyone else.
- fpgeek 11y ago
  Comcast also makes most of its money from users directly. Yet, somehow, the incentives are not aligned. Why is that? How might that apply to Apple?
  - pg314 11y ago
    Comcast has considerable monopoly power: in certain areas there are no good alternatives or your apartment complex might have the cables from Comcast installed but not others. Apple has less monopoly power because of Android competition.
- 72deluxe 11y ago
  But it is debatable as to whether they really do cater to you. In the end, if they release a product you don't like you have to like it or lump it. The same goes with their software. There was a significant backlash from when they changed the style in iOS7. They didn't ask you what you wanted. There was also a backlash when they introduced Lion and got rid of "Save As" or got rid of the maximise-equivalent in Yosemite (you have to hold down Alt now, how irritating), or when they removed the Web Sharing option in System Preferences and you have to manually restart Apache etc. etc. etc. They also removed DVD drives on laptops, never gave us a Bluray drive, stopped us being able to upgrade RAM in laptops and Mac Minis, ditched accelerated graphics for the Mac Mini etc. etc. etc. The list is quite long of the things that they have changed or removed that you can't do anything about (and it is frequently irritating). As you decide to buy them and are happy with them, you may rationalise this as them making products that cater to you, but in truth they do not. I say this as a developer who writes software for OSX as my day job btw. It's not an anti-Apple rant - it's more truth.
  - etchalon 11y ago
    I think you're mistaking "making products with everything I want" and "Making products I want."
    - 72deluxe 11y ago
      It's the same isn't it? :-)
slyn 11y ago
By building and providing a product or service that you need/want/like enough to pay for?
tdkl 11y ago
Because money brings support and customer care too.

> So their interests are more aligned with yours. Exactly how does a company that makes money through selling you products have its interests more aligned to yours?

Ensorceled 11y ago

Apple is "more aligned" as in more aligned than Google, not "more aligned" as in perfectly aligned. Stop viewing the world in black and white.

etchalon 11y ago

Because that company makes its from me, directly. It has to cater its products to ME, and not to advertisers, or enterprises, or anyone else.

fpgeek 11y ago
Comcast also makes most of its money from users directly. Yet, somehow, the incentives are not aligned. Why is that? How might that apply to Apple?
- pg314 11y ago
  Comcast has considerable monopoly power: in certain areas there are no good alternatives or your apartment complex might have the cables from Comcast installed but not others. Apple has less monopoly power because of Android competition.
72deluxe 11y ago
But it is debatable as to whether they really do cater to you. In the end, if they release a product you don't like you have to like it or lump it. The same goes with their software. There was a significant backlash from when they changed the style in iOS7. They didn't ask you what you wanted. There was also a backlash when they introduced Lion and got rid of "Save As" or got rid of the maximise-equivalent in Yosemite (you have to hold down Alt now, how irritating), or when they removed the Web Sharing option in System Preferences and you have to manually restart Apache etc. etc. etc. They also removed DVD drives on laptops, never gave us a Bluray drive, stopped us being able to upgrade RAM in laptops and Mac Minis, ditched accelerated graphics for the Mac Mini etc. etc. etc. The list is quite long of the things that they have changed or removed that you can't do anything about (and it is frequently irritating). As you decide to buy them and are happy with them, you may rationalise this as them making products that cater to you, but in truth they do not. I say this as a developer who writes software for OSX as my day job btw. It's not an anti-Apple rant - it's more truth.
- etchalon 11y ago
  I think you're mistaking "making products with everything I want" and "Making products I want."
  - 72deluxe 11y ago
    It's the same isn't it? :-)

slyn 11y ago

By building and providing a product or service that you need/want/like enough to pay for?

tdkl 11y ago

Because money brings support and customer care too.