At 03:15 PM 04/04/2012, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Nonsense. it is giving "people", as in those how buy stuff from Apple, exactly what they want. Were it not, people would not buy. You can't force people to buy stuff just by marketing...they have to want what you have to sell. And the closed walled garden must not be so bad, since people are willing to go there. Just because you don't like it, doesn't make all those people idiots. Those who want a piece of the pie are free to market and offer whatever products they wish. But why aren't they doing so?
I'm not sure if you completely misunderstand marketing or are just being argumentative. You don't "need" anything that Apple sells. No one does. You just "need" food, shelter and clothing. Marketing creates "want" which is then fulfilled by the company doing the marketing. Apple has a lot more money than most of it's competitors and has a charmed connection with the media which gives it a huge advantage when marketing. I'll bet people don't want to be in a walled garden. They just don't realize there is an option.
Anyway, the fact that most of the rest of the human race are idiots is pretty obvious. Present company excepted of course. :)
T
