Soldato
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I also agree with owning a Mac is a Fashion statement. I think it's a wealth statement too.
What a load of bull. If you ever met me I think you'd shelve this silly notion.
I also agree with owning a Mac is a Fashion statement. I think it's a wealth statement too.
What a load of bull. If you ever met me I think you'd shelve this silly notion.
Our mac pro broke some time ago, gfx some top end ati car from few years ago, the card cost us nearly £400 to replace, that's an old gfx nowadays for £400!

"Muslims go to Makkah"
"We come to Mac'ca"
What the heck.

Its the type in this vid that really freak me out.![]()
How do you know someone has an iPhone?
Because they tell you.
How do you know someone has an iPhone?
Because they tell you.

and yes im a crackberry aka blackberry fanboi through and through.How do you know someone has an iPhone?
Because they tell you.

Apple's biggest talent is implementing ideas properly
Case in point is the ipad.
Upon release, everybody scoffed. "We have tablet PCs already" and "what can this do that my laptop cant" and "what an old and pointless idea, this has been around for ages" etc..
Except of course, they had taken an idea that microsoft and intel had been trying for years to push unsucessfully. Remember Windows XP Tablet edition ?
And they refined it, they stripped it out and gave end users what they actually wanted. Now a whole wave of new devices in the same format is coming. The samsung Galaxy tab, the Blackberry playbook etc.
Its spawned an entire new platform, but by perfecting an idea that others couldnt get to work properly.
So allthough the idea isnt "new" they certainly implemented it better than everybody else. Same goes for the iphone. There have been smartphones before, but the iphone gave everybody new ideas and pushed the genre. Smartphones wouldnt be where they are now if it wasnt for the iphone imo.
And as an apple user i welcome the development. Competition for apple keeps pushing them to do new things, and it pushes the 3rd partys to make their stuff better than apples. its a constantly never ending cycle of improvement that benefits us - the end user.
I mean setting trends with consumers. For example their have been tablet's before the ipad but nobody cared. Then the ipad comes out and they sell shed loads and now every company and their nan are bringing tablets out.
Also being the first does not mean your setting the trend , the most influential set the trend. A company wants their new t-shirt to become popular so they give you the t-shirt to be the ambassador for the brand. They sell 2 more. Not happy with the sales figures they give the top to Brad pit and the sales are now though the roof and everyones wearing them as its the new cool thing, Now who set the trend?

Totally different markets...
On the main note, well done Apple, however how do their profits compare with the big boys (electrical giants like Sony and Philips?), it's not really fair to compare them to MS any more as they are an electrical manufacturer first and a software company second now.
I own an 08 MBP and I'm not gay or pretentious. Am I doing something wrong?

It’s mainly the have-nots and the haven’t tried brigade. Just too many bum boys on either side of the fence.![]()

