Sony is infamous for crappy marketing of superior products. Remember the Betamax? And some very stupid decisions regarding the Playstation 3 with screwy backwards compatibility, etc. Sony makes the best TVs and just about everything else they make, but you do pay a small premium for the name.
Toyota may have taken a small hit with the unfounded claims of product flaws in the last year or so (alleged uncontrollable acceleration, etc.), but their products are still far superior to their 'competition.' Remember the Ford ad where they said 'and quality is now equal to Toyota'? It was a lie about being equal, but they were admitting that they were not as good on national TV! And Dodge doesn't even try to compare themselves to Toyota, just Chevy and Ford. Harley-Davidson screws their customers worse than anyone I've seen on price versus quality, yet the people still line up to pay double for half the product because of the name. When you buy a Browning firearm, you pay a bit for the name, but the quality is there to back it up every time. At least Apple products seem to deliver a higher level of quality for being overpriced, even if their commercials are beyond annoying and many of their customers are snooty about buying Apple... On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Michael Hawksworth <[email protected]> wrote: > The voice mail system at work (I'm an IT manager) run on it, only thing I > have ever seen that used it. > One of the skills of the Apple team is to know their market. they know they > wont get MS out of the office and they dont care. If they can keep the top > 5% of the paying public paying over the odds for their systems they are > quite happy. > The bit that rankles with me is that no matter how much Apple screw over > their customer base (unable to change batteries, poor reception etc etc) > their customers don't seem to care and keep coming back. The ability to > overcome the negativity from costly mistakes is probably one of Apples > greatest abilities. On that MS, Toyota, sinclair and many others wished they > could emulate. -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
