Woz calls for a more open Apple, likes Google’s openness

5. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 18 May 2012, 07:31 0 0

gotta agree with you

8. JeffdaBeat posted on 18 May 2012, 07:49 3 3

No offense, but you have to get out of the nerd world. The vast majority of consumers actually like Apple just fine and hold it in regards over most companies out there. Most of those same people don't know who the Woz is, only Steve Jobs. Most of those people are the buying power that makes Apple pretty rich. As long as those people are happy, no matter what you may name them, Apple doesn't really care what negative attitude nerds have...

11. EclipseGSX posted on 18 May 2012, 10:25 5 0

Says the guy in a nerd rage shirt using an iPhone...

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14. JeffdaBeat posted on 18 May 2012, 17:20 0 0

Dude, I'm a big nerd (hence the shirt). But when you are talking about a subject that deals with the average consumer, you have to abandon thinking like a nerd and think like a normal person who has a slight interest in technology. That's why the iPhone has done so well. It's easy for ANYONE to use and Apple understands that. That's the reason Android had such a hard time trying to convert people. They inundated people with facts that they had no clue about. When they changed and started gearing their ads to normal folks, sales took off.

So, if we speak of consumer matters, we have to think like a consumer not like nerds...like you and I...

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13. AppleConspiracy posted on 18 May 2012, 13:00 1 1

This propaganda is not made for most Apple users, but for power users who constantly track the "atmosphere" of Apple's approach to consumers. In the world of tech enthusiasts, climate towards the Apple becomes more and more important, as they can generate viral trends, like they did with Samsung Galaxy S2, for example, which could eventually decrease Apple's reputation in the long run.

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7. JeffdaBeat posted on 18 May 2012, 07:46 1 3

I'm not sure how that's true since most of Apple's products are ridiculously expensive, ridiculously popular, but only the iPhone has a subsidy. No phone manufacturer would do well seeing as a lot of phone regularly priced are about $400 or $500. Apple is more expensive than that...but all of their products full price are more expensive. Hell their computers go for twice what a Windows based PC would and people still buy them.

9. greathero1 posted on 18 May 2012, 08:22 1 1

Please bro. Subsidies are common everywhere. Not just exclusive to the US. They are probably more popular here because that is the model pushed by the carriers. As for people living on a loan, thats pretty much how it is everywhere. I finance my house to provide a roof over the head of my children and myself. I am not in Italy or some other eastern European country where you live with your mother until you are 35. There is nothing wrong with getting a loan as long as you know you can pay it back.

6. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 18 May 2012, 07:32 2 1

yeah but thats not gonna happen