[Star Traveler]

Yes, indeed... :-)

[Star Traveler]

Is Apple the Mobile Walmart?

[Star Traveler]

See also the FReeper thread...

Apple's iPhone On Its Way To Becoming The Microsoft Windows Of Mobile

[SteveAustin]

After 15-years of being a PC guy, I’m making the migration to Apple over the past two-years.

Now with a wife and kids, I find the Mac/Apple platform so much easier to work with.

Do I understand how to handle a PC? Sure. But spend 5 hours rebuilding your PC every six-months because your kids picked up a bad PC virus while at a children’s game site and you tend to lose your patience. Or spending hours trying to synch a third party MP3 player with a PC. Then you move to Itunes and an I-pod and it all works flawlessly.

If you can afford the 30% premium on Apple stuff, you’ll make it up in saved time in the years ahead.

[tfecw]

hmm, i go to Walmart to save money. I don't think anyone has every gone into the apple store with the expectations of saving money.

[Richard Kimball]

There are a lot of programmers on this site, and I know quite a few others personally, and I’ve seldom seen a profession where there’s an across the board dislike for the end user like there is in programming. I’ve worked in retail with appliances and vehicles, the newspaper industry, fast food restaurants as a teenager, in education, and at all levels of emergency services. While there are a few bad apples in each of those professions that dislike customers, with programmers it seems to be the normal attitude.
I find this particularly true with the in house people supporting enterprise applications. I suspect this is because the people who make hiring and firing decisions are too far up the food chain to have to use the applications that the daily workers have to use.
In my current job, the IT people don’t care whether a computer works or not, unless it belongs to the school president or one of the deans.

[Swordmaker]

Is Apple the Mobile Wal-Mart PING?

Apple Wal-Mart? Ping!

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[SunkenCiv]

The situation reminds me of Walmart's long-standing reputation as being difficult with its suppliers, squeezing ever smaller margins from them in exchange for access to millions of consumers.

There's some crap out there about Apple's purported screwing around with NAND memory suppliers.

[Star Traveler]

Apple articles posted on Free Republic...

• Who Can Kill the iPhone?
• Apple's iTunes overtakes Amazon in overall music sales
• Apple iPhone expected to drive mobile phone industry toward fancier touch screens
• Apple devotees rush stores for iPhone
• Mac users 'ecstatic' about new Apple Store
• Jobs Is Back, Apple's Still Standing, Life Goes On
• Out with Treos, in with iPhones
• Letters from Microsoft: An Employee Tosses His Zune
• Apple's 99-Cent Apps Are Too Cheap, Microsoft Says
• ONE IN FOUR SONGS IN U.S. BOUGHT ON iTUNES
• "APPLE HAS CHANGED THE WAY THE GAME IS PLAYED", says MSFT Win Mob chief
• iPhones Cause People To Talk Less
• GROKLAW’S EXCELLENT TAKE ON THE RECENT PSYSTAR SHENANIGANS (Apple Computer)
• PSYSTAR HIT WITH $5K FINE FOR DISCOVERY ABUSE (Apple Computer)
• INTEGO SPOTS MALWARE BLOCKER IN SNOW LEOPARD (Apple Mac OS X)
• Parallels to make switching to the Mac easier, safe and painless
• THE IPHONE & STEVE BALLMER: IT’S TIME FOR HIM TO EAT SOME SERIOUS CROW
• An in-depth look at Psystar’s legal defeat at the hands of Apple
• Has Palm finally given up on the great cat/mouse/iTunes chase of ‘09?
• Jobs’ Personal, Terse Reply to Developer [Apple Computer]
• Android goes for iPhone weak spot: porn apps [Porn is iPhone Killer?]
• Mac sales projected to grow 26% in 2010, outpacing PC market
• Apple's iPhone On Its Way To Becoming The Microsoft Windows Of Mobile
• Is Apple the Mobile Walmart?
• Apple's Base Stations Have Three 802.11n Streams [Faster WiFi on Apple]
• Analysis: Apple Embraces The Cloud, Positions Mobile With Lala Deal [Extends iTunes]
• Forget The iPhone: The iPod touch Is Where It’s At
• >All Hail the iPod touch
• Apple Bans Another Developer, 1000+ Apps Pulled [Developer scamming reviews]