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krickett wrote:
I'm a business major so perhaps my perspective on this is very different. Mac OS isn't Apple, and Apple doesn't care all that much about Mac OS.
The thing that Apple does that nobody else really does:
1. Focus on Design - all other PC maker focus on technology, but Apple focuses on design. It's an artist led company. People in the design lab develop the look, the feel, the experience, and they go to the technology people for feasibility checks, and to make it happen. They are a self-described 'fashion' company.
2. Tight integration - Most PC companies are essentially marketing and assembly shells. Apple on the other hand, is tightly oriented business model. Everything, and I do mean everything, from the Apple Store, to Itunes, to the product mix (Iphone, MacBook) etc., all support each other. Within the product, everything: internal parts, OS, supply chain, contours, look, function, etc. lack of customization, etc. they all support each other in a very focused, deliberate business model. Mac OS is just one piece of the puzzle.
The result is pretty simple. No PC Maker makes money. It's a terrible business to be in, because you're merely packaging for Intel and Windows. Apple on the other hand, is rolling in money.
So, while I'm definitely not an Apple fanboy, I think they are smart, they make great products, and everybody in the world is struggling to catch up with them. I don't think they're evil or greedy. BUT, they are a TAD full of themselves ...Show more →
i though i would fix your answer a little
>The result is pretty simple. No PC Maker makes money. It's a terrible business to be in, because you're merely packaging for Intel and Windows. Apple on the other hand, is rolling in money.
Hell no. Even apple is just packaging company for intel and ATI/Nvidia. Difference is that they put moneys on so called "feel on being part of elite" while other puts moneys on upgrade path and other things what reasonable people want to pay for. You are right though, that neither of them makes real moneys. But that is true for apple too. Apple makes moneys on itunes and those stupid gadgets which people stupidly overpay, definitely not on their crappy desktops, pathetic laptops and most of all laughable, servers.
All in all, only half true. They all still make enough moneys to push further this fast developing forward. Only number of players reduced, because game has changed.
> Focus on Design - all other PC maker focus on technology, but Apple focuses on design. It's an artist led company.
again no, it is marketing-led company. They want you to think it is art. But you just fell for it. What they make is no design. It is sleek and simple to be "ok" for most, not hateable, but definitely far away from art. It is as much art as those glass and chrome "design furniture" are. They are just as simple as plain paper is, so most people think they like them, while they just "not hate them" because they cannot. Art is something else. Art is what SGI did back in a day or what some old furniture is. Or what some real designers do. Or what cyber/steampunk styled cases/mods are. Not that white / silver boxes with pushy spamming glowing apple on the back.
p.s. i am not hating apple. i just dont like when i hear very often that creative people pick apple because they are art driven company. Many (by far not most) creative people pick apple because they are technically impaired and PC world is so bigger then mac world is, that is very cluttered for uninformed people.
There is nothing what apple can offer nowadays. It had something to offer back in days when some applications were not available or were poor running on PC (like Quark in end of nineties), but now apple is a PC with different OS and sicko company running it and locking you to their offerings.
If you want some reality check, just load some video of their keynotes and replace all "Apple" words with "Pampers". So you will see how rest of the world sees apple fanatics. We just go to shop and buy a product to work on. We buy phone to phone and text on. Mp3 player which fits our needs and notePad when as we like. We are not coming to PC cathedral for chosen ones, to talk with PC geniuses about which of those 3 same laptops, 2 same desktops and one phone and one tablet and mediaplayer we should buy.
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