On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:15 AM, 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). Yes, I think this may be a big part of it. Why can't they customize it though? I mean, they preload it with lots of adware, why can't they change a few other things? - j > > > 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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
