How Beats by Dre played you like a fool
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How Beats by Dre played you like a fool
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#2And now we know that pulseaudio.net uses CakePHP as their web framework. http://i.imgur.com/BbR63sK.png
They should turn debug off.
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#3I consider myself a bit of a an audiophile, and always argued that beats headphones are inferior. Their balance is abysmal, way too bass heavy, and shit plastic design. They however mastered marketing, which as it turns out wins the "game". My choice of headphones are Sol Republic (http://solrepublic.com/tracks-hd-on-ear-headphones-with-v10-...) or a nice German Sennheiser.
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#4My laptop has a Beats by Dre logo for some reason, I have no idea why because the sound quality is no better than any other laptop I have used with bog-standard speakers.
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#5I lost a lot of respect for Apple when they bought them. Beats are what a lot of Apple haters used to accuse them of being, overpriced junk that caters to gullible fashion victims.
I won't be switching to their new music service.
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#6My laptop has a Beats by Dre logo for some reason, I have no idea why because the sound quality is no better than any other laptop I have used with bog-standard speakers.
"Beats capable", probably. Means about as much as "Vista ready".
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#7It just shows the power of good marketing really.
Audiophiles will rant and rave about the poor quality of the headphones, and rightly so. I've not used Beats but it's pretty obvious from the reviews I've read that Beats headphones are overpriced crap.
However, I don't believe Dre played anybody like a fool. He and his co-founder simply understood that there was a gap in the market for "fashionable" headphones, and so he used his name and connections to make that happen.
It's an incredibly basic approach to launching a new product in an established market and I'm sure many other companies have sold overpriced crap in other industries to a wide consumer base for lots of $$$'s using the same technique.
Edit: Fixed typo
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#8Marketing and politics, they work the same.
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#9Isn't this just same old same old?
We have a fantastic independent coffee shop at the end of our road. When a major coffee chain opened a few doors down, I asked him if he was worried. His reply: "No. The kind of people that drink coffee in Starbucks don't pay for coffee in independent coffee shops.".
It's the same here. Beats' target market is not people that love good quality headphones, but people that want fashionable headphones.
You can see the same argument over cars, phones, clothes, luggage, etc. It's hardly new.
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#10And now we know that pulseaudio.net uses CakePHP as their web framework. http://i.imgur.com/BbR63sK.png They should turn debug off.
First, it’s “pulseradio.net”, not “pulseaudio”.
Second, what framework anyone uses is hardly a secret – anyone can see that, either by looking at the source code, or by simply installing the Wappalyzer browser extension.