At 11:15 AM 4/4/2012, you wrote:
BS. You and I both know that it isn't "giving the people what they
want". It's marketing
Well, Henry Ford was once asked if he did marketing research before
coming out with his products. He replied that if he had asked people
what they wanted in a car they would of said a faster horse.
Jobs used to like to point out that the consumer doesn't really
know what they want until they show them what they want, and I think
that is true. For the record I don't own, nor have I ever used any
Apple products.
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and telling people what they should want and then giving that to
them (which is not a flaw of just Apple, most large companies do
this). Of course people think they want to live in a closed
source, walled garden - they've been sold that line by
Apple. These are the same people who buy Budwiser thinking it's a great beer.
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Nonsense. it is giving "people", as in those how buy stuff from
Apple, exactly what they want. Were it not, people would not
buy. You can't force people to buy stuff just by marketing...they
have to want what you have to sell. And the closed walled garden
must not be so bad, since people are willing to go there. Just
because you don't like it, doesn't make all those people
idiots. Those who want a piece of the pie are free to market and
offer whatever products they wish. But why aren't they doing so?
