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sp3ctre said:ranski said:
... those guys are on the Ferrari forums
Too true
I read a story of a guy who had Apple shares in the early days and cashed out for around $8,000. Had he kept them they would have been worth tens of millions
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I had shares years ago, bought at about £20/share in the mid-90s, and they were doing okay for a while but sold them at about £25/share when they fell back from £50/share.ranski said:
My mate kept about half of his from the same period - and while neither of us had thousands of shares, he still cashes in a few now & then to pay his mortgage.
I think people expect so much.
Ive said it once and will say it again, A company is LUCKY if it creates one industry changing product in a decade. Apple has made at least 3 and there is argument for 2 more.
The expectation that every iteration will produce some mind blowing 'change the way we live product' like the iPod, iPhone and iPad did. For the time being they are POLISHING and making the products better for the end user.
THIS IS FINE BY ME.
Innovation doesn't happen over night, the iPad and iPhone were in R&D for over 10 years.
What innovation are the products lacking exactly? That they are not invisible to the eye? or cant project they're screen on a billboard at 300dpi!? That it should be holographic and you can use the air between your fingers to sense the buttons!?
If you dont like them dont buy them, sick of listening to it. They are tools and they work END OF.
They are more suitable for 75% of users, because they work and you dont need a degree in computing for the average person to use, or like MS when they get slow buy a new one BS mantra that kept MS at the top for 10 years but their bubble burst pretty quickly. They are designed to be natural with no instructions necessary. I can vote this one works as my 80YO Grandma has one and she has no comp experience and was like a duck to water with it.
These products are class leading as it is. I dont care what everyone says about the competition! If there was no iPod, iPhone and iPad this whole industry wouldn't be where it is, let alone exist! All the competition are copies and I wouldn't call any of them improvements, just competition. Non have innovations the Apple products dont already have... they are just cheaper and add value added components. Apples mantra has been as it is now since it was born, less is more. Only include what it needs, this is the same through the entire lineup.
Nay sayers will always exist. Let them get on with it. Others just embrace, use and enjoy. Thats where I sit.
2006 competitors...
The most popular phone at the time everyone had them and they were the phones to have.
2006 Apple
Blows everyone out the water.
The competition are only just catching up.
Ive said it once and will say it again, A company is LUCKY if it creates one industry changing product in a decade. Apple has made at least 3 and there is argument for 2 more.
The expectation that every iteration will produce some mind blowing 'change the way we live product' like the iPod, iPhone and iPad did. For the time being they are POLISHING and making the products better for the end user.
THIS IS FINE BY ME.
Innovation doesn't happen over night, the iPad and iPhone were in R&D for over 10 years.
What innovation are the products lacking exactly? That they are not invisible to the eye? or cant project they're screen on a billboard at 300dpi!? That it should be holographic and you can use the air between your fingers to sense the buttons!?
If you dont like them dont buy them, sick of listening to it. They are tools and they work END OF.
They are more suitable for 75% of users, because they work and you dont need a degree in computing for the average person to use, or like MS when they get slow buy a new one BS mantra that kept MS at the top for 10 years but their bubble burst pretty quickly. They are designed to be natural with no instructions necessary. I can vote this one works as my 80YO Grandma has one and she has no comp experience and was like a duck to water with it.
These products are class leading as it is. I dont care what everyone says about the competition! If there was no iPod, iPhone and iPad this whole industry wouldn't be where it is, let alone exist! All the competition are copies and I wouldn't call any of them improvements, just competition. Non have innovations the Apple products dont already have... they are just cheaper and add value added components. Apples mantra has been as it is now since it was born, less is more. Only include what it needs, this is the same through the entire lineup.
Nay sayers will always exist. Let them get on with it. Others just embrace, use and enjoy. Thats where I sit.
2006 competitors...
The most popular phone at the time everyone had them and they were the phones to have.
2006 Apple
Blows everyone out the water.
The competition are only just catching up.
I rest my case
sp3ctre said:Stuart Truman said:
... I bet you don't...
someone will no doubt appeal and it will go to the high court in the forumtomscott said:
That. And I just think folks like to show off their newest, Shiniest, Bigger more complex toys therefore I'm more hip than you.
When I was shopping for my DSLR. There were always shouting matches on photo forums about how you were a numpty unless one bought a Muliti thousand dollar full frame Nikon/Canon body. Or folks who wanted to trade their one yr. old body for a new one as the new one had 5 more MP. The thing is. Most folk who own these monster cameras end up only looking at their photos on a 21-30 inch computer screen. And if they do a print. It might be an 8 X 10. And only rarely go to the trouble of printing something poster sized. Which an APS-C sensor can do just fine. It usually boils down to bragging rights among ones mates.
I even saw this at the motorcycle shop I once worked at. A guy comes in with a bike that he bought from us less than a year earlier. And wanted to trade for a newer one of the same model. We told him they were identical bikes. He said sure, But that motorcyclist magazine in their test of the new one said it was .01 seconds faster in the 1/4 mile. :scratchhead:
OK. He was to upside down though and couldn't trade.
tomscott said:I think people expect so much.
Ive said it once and will say it again, A company is LUCKY if it creates one industry changing product in a decade. Apple has made at least 3 and there is argument for 2 more.
The expectation that every iteration will produce some mind blowing 'change the way we live product' like the iPod, iPhone and iPad did. For the time being they are POLISHING and making the products better for the end user.
THIS IS FINE BY ME.
Innovation doesn't happen over night, the iPad and iPhone were in R&D for over 10 years.
What innovation are the products lacking exactly? That they are not invisible to the eye? or cant project they're screen on a billboard at 300dpi!? That it should be holographic and you can use the air between your fingers to sense the buttons!?
If you dont like them dont buy them, sick of listening to it. They are tools and they work END OF.
They are more suitable for 75% of users, because they work and you dont need a degree in computing for the average person to use, or like MS when they get slow buy a new one BS mantra that kept MS at the top for 10 years but their bubble burst pretty quickly. They are designed to be natural with no instructions necessary. I can vote this one works as my 80YO Grandma has one and she has no comp experience and was like a duck to water with it.
These products are class leading as it is. I dont care what everyone says about the competition! If there was no iPod, iPhone and iPad this whole industry wouldn't be where it is, let alone exist! All the competition are copies and I wouldn't call any of them improvements, just competition. Non have innovations the Apple products dont already have... they are just cheaper and add value added components. Apples mantra has been as it is now since it was born, less is more. Only include what it needs, this is the same through the entire lineup.
Nay sayers will always exist. Let them get on with it. Others just embrace, use and enjoy. Thats where I sit.
2006 competitors...
The most popular phone at the time everyone had them and they were the phones to have.
2006 Apple
Blows everyone out the water.
The competition are only just catching up.
I don't agree with everything you say here Tom but a very well articulated case nevertheless
I'll be using the next couple of days to weigh up the new iPhone vs the Samsung S3, it'll probably be the iPhone for me but having read all the leaks, it is a little underwhelming.
My 3GS really needs replacing though and going apple is the easy choice but not the cheapest.
My 3GS really needs replacing though and going apple is the easy choice but not the cheapest.