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So Apple is 'flailing,' eh? (re: TechCrunch story)

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Re: So Apple is 'flailing,' eh? (re: TechCrunch story)

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Post by jonknee »

TweedHeads wrote: post #2

TC is always full of animosity against Google, Yahoo and Apple. Are they sponsored by microsoft?

And Daring Fireball is always full of animosity against anyone against Apple. Are they sponsored by Apple? Alas, fan boys need no corporate sponsorship to throw dirt from the trenches.

Re: So Apple is 'flailing,' eh? (re: TechCrunch story)

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Post by auston »

captain-m wrote: post #5

In this case doing better than the competition doesn't mean doing well. It doesn't even mean acceptable. I don't use any apple products and I don't really care either way, but saying that they're better than the competition doesn't mean anything.

"...saying that they're better than the competition doesn't mean anything."

How does that statement even have a basis? How else can you benchmark anything? You need SOMETHING to base your placement on.

Past performance even, which was considered in that article. How can we award gold medals if there is no competition to base that award upon?

Re: So Apple is 'flailing,' eh? (re: TechCrunch story)

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Post by nsimpson »

I know I'm going to get downmodded for this but I have to agree with Captain-M.

The attitude that "we're doing better than our competitors so we don't need to improve" is toxic, and usually fatal for a company in the long run (... the others aren't going to be content with sitting in second place forever).

My earlier-gen MBP, iPhone, iPods etc are all rock solid (I'm delighted with them all), but I could easily see a situation where quality could go south on new products in the rush to cut costs and get to market faster.

I hope that's not the case. It would be little comfort to me as a new buyer if my machine bricked for no reason, and some smug fanboy pointed out that other people who bought Macs in the past had no problems (making me the problem?)

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