Missed the point Rev! Apple is saying a netbook cannot provide the compute experience their customer-base demands. It has long shown it can be successful marketing to demanding, picky customers; for example Tom and his insistence on FTFF! Why should Apple dilute its focus by catering to another market? Apple is about more than just computers - if you don't understand that, you are in another market.
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- A similar question was asked of Paul Kliptsch who made only high end speakers. (Came out with a bookshelf model named heresy) Because that is where the market is. If Apple wants to show us it is all about good stuff. Make and market a netbook that is better than all the rest. Apple is about Computers. The computer market is shifting away from desktops (I think the past few years laptops have outsold desktops) At this point people are about small portable appliances that are easy to transport and use. (Iphone, Itouch ec.) Instead of looking down your nose at a segment of the market. Make it better and show others how it is supposed to be done. That is the difference between an elitist snob and a entrepreneur. One talks down to it, the other shows them how it is to be done! And by the way I would not put Apple up with McIntosh or Denon or Onkyo or Bang-Olufsen. It is more like Technics against Pioneer or Sony. They are after similar clientele. (the computer enthusiast) The other guys do not want the riff-raff, only the connoisseur Now all of the above is true unless you folks are really elitist snobs. :-) Stewart At 08:36 AM 4/23/2009, you wrote: > I agree completely. Why would McIntosh, that's the high-end audio >amplifier maker, not the computer maker, want to put a low-end and >cheap amp on the market when their entire market niche has been forever >predicated upon devices of the highest caliber? > > Steve Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[email protected] Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 ************************************************************************ * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************ * ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
