You mistake hatred or contempt for a product or with a hatred for a company.
I don’t hate Apple. I hate the concept of LEMMINGS doing whatever Apple tells them to buy.
But buyers are stupid and gullible. So I can’t blame Apple for making lots of money over stupid schmucks. That will calm down after people realize their worthless purchase.
That’s the beauty of capital economics. And our right to peaceably discuss our disgust of all things in a forum without being sent to the gallows.
Then if that's the case, why are you treating all Apple users like Lemmings when by my estimate, only about 10% of the Apple users on here have indicated they are interested in buying the Apple Watch. That is not the action of BLIND LEMMINGS, Up Yours Marxists but you act as if every Apple user is being forced to buy it and will walk in lockstep to the Apple Store maxed out credit card in hand to add more to their debt to own an Apple Watch. You could not be more wrong.
Some of us have well considered reasons for buying one. I do. I have listed them before. My girlfriend has mentioned the benefits for her, which I have listed here. Others have listed the reasons they have. Every single one of them YOU have dismissed because they don't happen to be something YOU personally would not need those purposes.
Apple has no expectation of every iPhone user buying an Apple Watch. . . the demographics show that 6 to 10% of iPhone users are likely to do so. If that number holds true, Apple will sell 48 to 80 million Apple Watches. $34 Billion to $56 Billion in revenue. That's a success in anyone's book. If they sell more, GREAT!
What you cannot do in your thesis, is demonstrate that Apple is a Svengali "telling stupid schmucks" or anyone to buy anything. With that claim you paint your insult to everyone of the 700 members of the Apple Ping list on FreeRepublic as "stupid schmucks" and let them know your very low opinion of every Apple user here. It has been extremely obvious with your posts dripping with derision.
You insult the intended audience you want to reach. . . or are you posing for the small minority who mirror your attitude, the Apple hate Brigade who will cheer you on in your delusional claims of Apple being a puppet master to over 800,000,000 purchasers of Apple iOS devices and nearly 100,000,000 Apple Macintosh computers? Can you not see the non-viability of your basic premise? That Apple can somehow pull the wool over almost a BILLION people, forcing them to buy Apple products merely because of "style" or "coolness," and continue doing it for now almost 40 years?
Perhaps it's time for you to re-examine your basic assumptions.
“You mistake hatred or contempt for a product or with a hatred for a company.”
Really...
“I don’t hate Apple. I hate the concept of LEMMINGS doing whatever Apple tells them to buy.”
I don’t know that I’ve “done” something I’ve been “told to buy”...
Regardless, you have a large misconception. People buy Apple products most often because they’re useful, and better than the competition’s products in tangible ways.
“But buyers are stupid and gullible.”
Right. Everyone is “stupid and gullible” besides...you. Correct?
“So I can’t blame Apple for making lots of money over stupid schmucks. That will calm down after people realize their worthless purchase.”
Just as we’ve heard of all the returned Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods etc.? Sure...
“That’s the beauty of capital economics.”
Apple is the king of “capital economics”, with a market cap that dwarfs the #2 company. By that metric, you should be an Apple lover. :-)
“And our right to peaceably discuss our disgust of all things in a forum without being sent to the gallows.”
I believe you’re conflating “capital economics” with the “First Amendment”. Those are two very different things.