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To: Swordmaker

“”You can buy a PC for $400, while the cheapest Mac is over a thousand,” Jon Graff, director of IT operations at A&E Television Networks, told me earlier this year.”

I see the idiot has never heard of the Mac Mini. Then again, he does work for A&E, a very much struggling network....

Also, the secret to Apple’s success is not to be first to market - but to be the ‘best to market’ with tools and tech that actually do what is promised and actually ‘just work’. And don’t require an engineering degree to operate.

Simple, but almost nobody else seems to get it.


3 posted on 08/17/2009 3:15:00 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr
Amen. The same reasons why Sennheiser is such a powerhouse.

We can learn a lot from German marketing and engineering. Apparently Jobs has.

4 posted on 08/17/2009 3:25:42 AM PDT by Daffynition ("...... we are about to be czarred and fettered." ~ alterum ictum faciam.)
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To: Spktyr
“”You can buy a PC for $400, while the cheapest Mac is over a thousand.....

This will get you a nice LCD monitor plus a PC with Windows7
One that is great for 90% of computer users

Apple has snob appeal and overkill. More computer that what 90% of users need. I know this elderly couple that is on the internet 2 hours a week but have a blazing fast DSL connection because that is what they were sold on. OVERKILL here

I told them they could save $20/month by getting slower DSL. But they ain't listening

17 posted on 08/17/2009 5:45:56 AM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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