On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:20 pm, Alan wrote: > heh, have you priced an iPod?
Yes. I still want one, even if I can't afford one currently. > Not to disparage Apple, but to suggest they don't milk their customers > as much as the next guy is just plain silly. As I said, it's all about "best perceived value" in the customer's mind. Why else would the iPod have so totally dominated the mp3 player market as it has? Why else would everyone else be trying to copy Apple's design, when Apple itself was actually very late coming into the market? Why else would Microsoft management be so upset that every employee they see with an mp3 player happens to be carrying an iPod instead of an MS-based player? > > It's a rare thing with computer companies. The more and > > more we buy at work in x86-land (Dell, etc.), the crappier and crappier > > it gets, as Dell tries harder and harder to squeeze more cash per unit. > > That has more to do with the competition in the x86 market than it does > with the hardware. If you are overpriced by $10 in the x86 market, you > lose. Apple, well, they don't have that problem, since they are > (effectively) the only players in the PowerPC market. For the most part, however, the general consumer doesn't look at it in a "I'm looking for a PowerPC-based computer." I find it's usually "I'm looking for a computer." Discussing this, however, is unwise in this type of group, however, primarily because most of us are headstrong and idealistic, and often impractically so. ;) Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu
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