The comparison of PCs and cars is fundamentally flawed, just like the comparison between building software with building houses.
The top speed of cars don't double every 18 months, and cars don't sell for $500-3000. Not all cars have engines made by Intel or AMD. People don't throw away their cars three years after purchase because it's not fast enough. Big car manufacturers don't go out of business every ten years. PCs are just little machines that you buy to get emails and go to Amazon and play YouTube, and run ugly looking corporate softwares. People who bought BMW's don't feel the need to brag about how superior his BMW is over Geo Prisms because the difference is obvious and accepted by society. People who bought Apple computers have to snub at PC buyers at every possible chance because they have to, or they feel that the premium they paid would have been wasted. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ hlovatt wrote: > I think there are two factors as to why PC manufacturers find it hard > to compete with Apple at the top end: > > 1. They cannot distinguish their user interface; they get Windows. In > a luxury branded car you get a different interior and exterior to a > standard car (it is not necessarily all that much better but it is > certainly different). > > 2. PC's are often bought by corporations centrally; cars aren't. Try > telling your executive that he/she has to have the same car as others > in the company! > > Thanks to Josh for raising such an interesting topic. > > On Sep 3, 9:36 am, Joshua Marinacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sep 2, 2008, at 12:56 PM, kirk wrote: >> >> >> >>> Joshua Marinacci wrote: >>>> How so? It's super simple to make your own soda. You could start a >>>> company doing it for under 100k$. >>> and many do which is why you have no-name brands in stores. But if you >>> are in Chicago and you want a cola and you've a choice of the no-name >>> brand and coke, which one are you going to pick? I bet coke (or Pepsi) >>> because along with the branding comes a familiarity of knowing what >>> you >>> are going to get. I have no idea of what no-name cola is and I don't >>> want to learn so the easy out is Coke. Anyways, any answer that >>> comes up >>> here is going to be so overly simplified and limited that it's going >>> to >>> be wrong at some level. >> While it is a simplification, I think it holds a truism. With clever >> use of brand building over a very long period of time colas are not a >> commodity market the way that, say, sugar and flour are, even though >> it easily could be. >> >> - J >> >> >> >>>> There are lots of microbrews which >>>> follow this same concept and are able to profitably compete against >>>> Bud and Coors. >>> Right, some how the idea of going into a pub in Belgium and ordering >>> Trappist cola doesn't seem so appealing. ;-) >>> -K > > -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
