Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote

>> Sure they can!� Apple more than most due to the loyalty factor.
>
> Funny how quality, integration, performance and reliability breed that.

While it's clear Alan Browne drank the punch, a normal person would realize
a few things that any adult should know... such as the meaning of the word
"commodity"

HINT: *A phone is a commodity*.
They're all the same. They all do the same things.
(Although an iPhone does less than Android, it doesn't matter for this
purpose of defining what the price of the object will be & the demand.)

*Both an iPhone and an Android phone are commodities.*

My free Galaxy, for example, does more than any iPhone ever could do,
and yet it too is simply a commodity. It makes phone calls & texts people.

The job of Apple is to fool people like Alan Browne into thinking otherwise
(where that is the sole job of the marketing organization inside Apple).

*MARKETING will tell you it's not just a phone, it's YELLOW!*

Where else can you get that particular shade of a phone but at Apple!
And only for the iPhone 14 too.

So now the phone is no longer a commodity, but a specialty item.
For stupid people like Alan Browne, that is.

HINT: This is basic stuff they teach you in undergraduate marketing.

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote

> And my very own daughter is one of them. I thought I raised her better.
>
> I think you stick with the system you started with unless there's some
> overwhelming reason to change. The first iPhones were better than the
> competition, and Daughter isn't interested in the actual technology

If all someone does with a phone is talk, text & play games, then an iPhone
is just as good as Android at that but the phone is still a commodity.

Apple marketing's sole just is to make stupid people "think" that an iPhone
is a specialty item - which let's admit - they're very good at doing.

It's exactly why they "differentiate" with "Titanium" & "YELLOW" colors.

Stupid people like Alan believe that if you paint that pork belly commodity
yellow, then it's no longer a commodity - but now it's a speciality item.
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On 2023-10-24 16:34, Wally J wrote:
> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote
>
>> And my very own daughter is one of them. I thought I raised her better.
>>
>> I think you stick with the system you started with unless there's some
>> overwhelming reason to change. The first iPhones were better than the
>> competition, and Daughter isn't interested in the actual technology
>
> If all someone does with a phone is talk, text & play games, then an iPhone
> is just as good as Android at that but the phone is still a commodity.
>
> Apple marketing's sole just is to make stupid people "think" that an iPhone
> is a specialty item - which let's admit - they're very good at doing.

"Apple marketing's sole just"?

Try again in English, bright boy.

>
> It's exactly why they "differentiate" with "Titanium" & "YELLOW" colors.
>
> Stupid people like Alan believe that if you paint that pork belly commodity
> yellow, then it's no longer a commodity - but now it's a speciality item.

LOL!

I believe that Apple's products work exceedingly well for consumers.

I know this in large part by paying attention to how little need for
support I get from my Apple-using clients.