As usual anthony you simply just dont get the concept of market forces from a herd of lemmings running in a direction that's counterproductive for the rest of us as choices thin out or become so polar. Best example is where buying from china has gotten us.
Hey, that's okay you don't have to respond, clearly you refuse to understand market forces and think it is just fine to have things polarized like they are. On Apr 4, 2012 1:17 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote: > Every company has the same opportunities to market just as the next. It's > not apple's fault if they are more effective at it than other companies or > if people want their products more than they want those of other companies. > The hatred on this list is just silly. Saying that people who choose to > buy their products because they like them are idiots is just silly. There > was a time when apple was nearly bankrupt and they certainly did not have > they money they have now, but yet they created products that people liked > and bought....they took the music player business away from Sony who owned > the Walkman market. They certainly were not the first company to make > phones and tablets, but they understood enough about human nature to know > that people don't want to spend their money on chunky stuff. Apple's > success says a lot about the lousy competition they have, more so than the > amount of marketing they do. > > Who cares if it's a walled garden or not if it does what people want to > do. If people choose to buy stuff from iTunes, it can only be because it > servers their desires to do so. It's their money. Saying they are idiots > for doing so is just some weird form of sour grapes. It makes zero sense. > > > On Apr 4, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Thane Sherrington < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > >
