Lmao. Apple anti-cpmpetively corners markers by preventing their products from working with anyone who actually innovates anything new.
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thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoApple doesnt create products. Apple creates markets. Nobody bought modern phones before the iPhone. They existed, nobody bought them. Nobody bought tablets before the iPad. They existed, nobody bought them. Nobody bought mp3 players before the iPod. They existed, nobody bought them. Everyone bought them after, and not just from Apple.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What? That doesn’t even make any sense. You can’t use that sort of tactic until you’ve already sold a shitload of products.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You seriously need to get out of that bubble. If product exists, that means there’s a market demand for it. By your own statement world is filled with infinitely rich companies which throw R&D resources on new products and constantly flopping and not turning profit, which is really not the case. People certainly bought MP3 players and tablets before Apple made their own version. iPod was popular but unattainable to most of the countries with poor economy and it’s not like people didn’t listen to music until Apple came along to save us all.
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What bubble? The iPod was an enormous cultural phenomenom that brought mp3 players into the mainstream. Nobody’s ever heard of the saehan mpman, even though it predated the iPod for years, because it was bought by a few thousand early adopters.
This guy hates apple so much he’s trying to convince me they’re not financially successful lmao
sir_reginald@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What your arguments probe is that Apple had a better marketing team and brand recognition (due to iMac) than the manufacturers who were there before.
Yeah, Apple was financially successful, but not due to innovation. Just good marketing.
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
So you’re strawmanning me, basically. I said they created a market. I said that because it’s true. I never said a damn thing about how they created the market, in fact I went to great lengths to point out that all of these devices existed before apple created theira. You’re so desperate to rant about fanboys that you inserted opinions into my post that weren’t there.