Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by rtw » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 3:28 PM UTC

Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special
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Re: Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by mdasen » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 4:19 PM UTC

I've been using Macs since the 68k days and I have been waiting for this to happen. Apple makes, in my opinion, wonderful products, but they'd always been so niche and have to act that way. That meant product introductions at fan events (Macworld), outrageous pricing, etc. We're seeing that change and it's great. Apple is pushing products out when they're ready, their products are more competitively priced, they're more open than they have been in the past, they're selling through normal channels rather than exclusive retailers like they did in the past. . .

It's great!

Re: Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by gaius » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 5:37 PM UTC

Excellent. Right now then, we're at the point in history we'd be at if things had gone to plan for SGI with the Indy, a Unix workstation as a desktop computer for the masses. Which is, umm, 15 years ago...

Re: Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 5:52 PM UTC

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Re: Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by cosmo7 » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 6:22 PM UTC

The first Mac I actually owned was an SE. Since then I've owned five more Macs. I bought top-of-the-line Macs when people were telling me that Apple was about to go out of business. I developed a lot of software for the Mac.

I'm all about developing for .NET now; Apple is toxic to developers.

Re: Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by anthonyrubin » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 6:44 PM UTC

cosmo7 wrote: post #5

The first Mac I actually owned was an SE. Since then I've owned five more Macs. I bought top-of-the-line Macs when people were telling me that Apple was about to go out of business. I developed a lot of software for the Mac. I'm all about developing for .NET now; Apple is toxic to developers.

Care to elaborate?

Re: Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by mattmaroon » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 7:41 PM UTC

A company can't give off that aura when their products sell 100s of millions. Apple maintained it for longer than anyone else ever did though.

Re: Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by wmf » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 7:45 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #3

Excellent. Right now then, we're at the point in history we'd be at if things had gone to plan for SGI with the Indy, a Unix workstation as a desktop computer for the masses. Which is, umm, 15 years ago...

Wasn't the Indy $15,000? Even accounting for Moore's Law it would have been hard for SGI to go mainstream.

Re: Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by gaius » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 7:57 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #8

gaius wrote: post #3

Excellent. Right now then, we're at the point in history we'd be at if things had gone to plan for SGI with the Indy, a Unix workstation as a desktop computer for the masses. Which is, umm, 15 years ago...

Wasn't the Indy $15,000? Even accounting for Moore's Law it would have been hard for SGI to go mainstream.

Contemporary fully-loaded Macs were comparable.

Re: Signs That Apple Customers Are No Longer Special

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Post by cosmo7 » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 9:34 PM UTC

anthonyrubin wrote: post #6

cosmo7 wrote: post #5

The first Mac I actually owned was an SE. Since then I've owned five more Macs. I bought top-of-the-line Macs when people were telling me that Apple was about to go out of business. I developed a lot of software for the Mac. I'm all about developing for .NET now; Apple is toxic to developers.

Care to elaborate?

Where to begin? * the almost total lack of development of Interface Builder * ouch Java * iPhone application approval yumminess * Hi Konfabulator! * Hi Watson!