On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:01 AM, t.piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > But I was writing about you. What you wrote was a clear example of Windows > thinking.
I hear from people who have recently gotten any iPody device, and I also overhear recent recipients telling others about their excitement, and for the most part they are far more excited about having joined the ranks of the cool and up-to-date crowd than they are about the quality of those products. Most people who get any make or model of any portable electronic device don't have much of a clue at all as to what constitutes quality in those things. Most folks I know who have an iPhone, iPod or any similar product made by Apple have Windows computers at home and probably will never change in that arena. These folks do not appear to me to make much association whatsoever between the engineering that went into making an iPod and the engineering that goes into making Macintosh computers. In fact, I do not personally know of a single person who has decided to go all the way with Apple just because they have an iPod or iPhone. I am not saying it does not happen, but it is not a revolution. I seriously think that you tend to give way too much credit to the brain processes of the average consumer. Most buyers of products are brand name driven or price driven and they are also prompted to buy the type of product that is currently in vogue. Think "Beanie Babies" or "Cabbage Patch" or VHS over Betamax or Windows over Macintosh. Consumers mostly respond to advertising or to price or to what they think is the most popular in the firm belief that "most popular" equates with "best" or means that the product is a so-called "must have." Again, I am not disparaging any Apple portable device, or any other brand for that matter. I am simply saying that issues of product quality, product specifications and additional technical parameters are not much of a factor when a customer enters that Best Buy store. Were such factors really a big part of the purchasing process, these retail stores would actually have staff that could answer such questions, and product advertising would reflect those concerns were they any big deal. You will have to go to a Myer-Emco or such if you want any meaningful answers about quality in an electronic device, or do your own research online or ask the opinion of friend who is knowledgeable on the subject. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
