APPLE's ARE RUBBISH...

[rob_ppmax]

...Peaches are better.


Hi there, my name is Rob and i am doing a study on the Apple brand for part of my second year of my degree at university (college) in London. I am very interested in the opinions of the dedicated Apple Fans, and where else would I go but macumors for them ? :D

please please please answer my questionnaire, which is at:
http://www.bigwhitebox.co.uk/apple

Thank you very much for your time

Rob.

Ps. sorry about that terrible joke, I think Apple is an amazing company, with truly brilliant products. :cool:

[robbieduncan]

Great way to grab attention. I have filled in the questions for you!

[rob_ppmax]

thanks for your reply, is great. have had about 10 from macrumors ! thanks a lot.

[edesignuk]

All done :)

[Hemingray]

I filled it out too. Good luck to you! :)

[Calvinatir]

Sent!

[MacMyDay]

Done so. :)

[~Shard~]

I'll send one in right now - way to grab peple's attention! I must admit I was a little disappointed though - I was looking forward to ripping into someone for bad-mouthing Apple! ;) :cool:

[markoibook]

Lol!
Good title - good luck with the research!

[evil]

yep i did one too

[_pb_boi]

Done :)

Nice questionaire - I like the way ratings of 1 - 10 are also explained by more detailed text below, justifying the rating.

Quality!

andy

[Krizoitz]

done and done

[rob_ppmax]

i have had to bounce my replies to another email account, keep going!

[whocares]

Done. :cool:

Don't forget to mention MacRumors in the aknowlegments section of your work. :p :p

[ColoJohnBoy]

I'm partial to pineapple. :p

Great survey! Good luck!

[vouder17]

Done

Clever advertisement campaign for your questionaire, apple should try it something like it, like just say windows suck and then you will see the masses gain attention for apple.

[Jeewhizz]

THat's another MR member i know! :O :D

All filled in rob :D

[virividox]

done

[parrothead]

You know I dont appreciate your Apples are rubbish joke at all. Apples are way better than peaches, come on! There are so many varieties and colors of apples. You can have tart apples and sweet ones, green ones and red ones. They can be put into pies, made into sauce, dried to make chips, made into juice, put into cobblers, etc. etc. Anyone that has ever had a warm piece of homeade apple pie fresh from the oven with some ice cream could never support your claim that apples are rubbish. Oh yeah, I filled out your questionarre for you. Good luck on your studies! :D ;)

[stoid]

Done

Clever advertisement campaign for your questionaire, apple should try it something like it, like just say windows suck and then you will see the masses gain attention for apple.

The only problem is that if you shout, "Apple Computer SUCKS!" on a crowded street, a bunch of people likely to tell you to shut-up or maybe even beat you up. However, if you shout "Windows SUCKS!" on a crowded street, a bunch of people are likely to throw their hand in the air and shout back, "Hell yeah, let's get the bastards!"

[pepeleuepe]

Done and done. Hope all goes well with your project, my college projects are killing me right now (if only they were collage projects) :)

[AppleMatt]

Job done :)
Hope your assignment goes well.

UCL offered me a place but I turned them down simply because of location, it looked really nice though!

AppleMatt

[MacsRgr8]

Done! :)

Good luck!

[solvs]

If you shout "MACS SUCK", you're likely to get either cheered or booed. Or at least ripped into by the faithful. "But why?", we say... launching the begining of a long, and boring, speech about how much better the Mac is point by point. (yeah, I do it too)

If you shout "WINDOWS SUCKS", most people just quietly agree.

[wPod]

i personally would go for apple pie rather than peach pie. . . but a good attention graber to get me to fill out the form. would have filled out numerous false pages had i recieved notice as spam!

[keysersoze]

Just finished. Best of luck!

[MacFan26]

I don't think I specifically mentioned MacRumors, but I filled one out too :cool:

[cb911]

well, i filled it out... in depth. :D

just make sure you say good things about Apple... :p

[Macmaniac]

Done, I felt funny completely describing the original iPod ad:) I am way to addicted. Yao Ming, and Mini Me, what more do you need to know about the PB:)

[ThomasJefferson]

Ditto!

[Kingsnapped]

Although I'm a relitive apple noob (owner since december, fan since june) I was pretty proud to remember the Yao Ming ad and the iPod ads with the singers. Now if only the G5 ad wasn't so lame...

Done and done. Good luck.

[Frisco]

Rob,

Good questionnaire. Can u please post your findings when you are done?

[hulugu]

I filled out your questionaire as well, good job by the way. Once you get everything compiled, would you share some of the data?
I'd appreciate it.

Paul

[imac_japan]

Just finished !

[Ozi]

nice survey! You better get an A+/High Distinction/H1/whatever-mark-means-you-did-good!

best of luck mate!

[rob_ppmax]

thank you for your amazing response everyone, truly fantastic. will take me a week to get through them all!

I shall try to summarise my report when i finish next week.

thanks again.

rob.


ps. keep going, if you like :) i will read them all!

[mikepctp]

Boy I was wizzed off when I read the post title but hey, good on you! I filled it out...

Good luck!

[MacDawg]

Glad to fill out the questionnaire. Brought back memories of when I was writing my doctoral dissertation and had to send out questionnaires.

Good luck!

[yamabushi]

Done. :cool:

[herr_neumann]

- I was looking forward to ripping into someone for bad-mouthing Apple! ;) :cool:

This only encourages them, learn to ignore them.

[ingenious]

me too.

(BTW, i cant resist. it should be "APPLES ARE RUBBISH..." not "APPLE's ARE RUBBISH" LOL, sorry, it comes from having a mom as an English teacher.)

[laukev7]

Done. The title definitely caught my attention, too. :D

[Sparky's]

The only problem is that if you shout, "Apple Computer SUCKS!" on a crowded street, a bunch of people likely to tell you to shut-up or maybe even beat you up. However, if you shout "Windows SUCKS!" on a crowded street, a bunch of people are likely to throw their hand in the air and shout back, "Hell yeah, let's get the bastards!"

an old AOL line "ROFLMAO"

and I would lead the charge!!

[Nermal]

Done, but I forgot to mention the Rip-Mix-Burn ad, and the iMac "Traffic" ad :(

[wrldwzrd89]

I just completed the form; I consider myself a Mac addict. Good luck on your research project!

[OutThere]

I filled in your survey. Good luck!

[taylaner]

DONE :D
good luck..........

[claytonbench]

All done, great questionarre. Also, [eric cartman voice]I was to understand there would be punch and pie.[/eric cartman voice]

[SiliconAddict]

What the hell!!! Strawberries RULE!!! Dang apple losers. ;)

[rueyeet]

Oranges for me, thanks. :D The all-caps in the thread title was a nice touch...I popped in here ready to read the latest QA complaint from a new switcher.

Off to fill out the survey....!

[glosterseagul]

appricots were quite nice...

posted. good luck :)

[Laslo Panaflex]

You got my info as well.

[thecow]

Done!
I agree with you. Apples are better than peaches. Yum. Peaches.

[~Shard~]

All this talk of apricots and peaches has got me thinking - I wonder if Apple will ever release a new, completely different product line to complement the Mac? As opposed to the Macintosh, they could call it the Fameuse, the Golden Russet, the Rhode Island Green, the Delicious.... ;) :cool:

[voicegy]

Ya suckered me into it. Well done. :)

[rainman::|:|]

All this talk of apricots and peaches has got me thinking - I wonder if Apple will ever release a new, completely different product line to complement the Mac? As opposed to the Macintosh, they could call it the Fameuse, the Golden Russet, the Rhode Island Green, the Delicious.... ;) :cool:

Yeah, it's been discussed. Apple did come out with the Pippin, which is in the apple theme, as well as the Newton which is obviously drawn from the Apple connection. But they missed opportunities, scalable computing on the Mac should be called Orchard: hey man, you should see my company's render-farm... no man, you should see our Orchard, it's amazing. But, it doesn't seem like they're going anywhere specific with the Apple theme, so maybe not. time will tell. but the names of other apples are pretty bad, if you think about it... mcintosh was the obvious choice.

paul

[chasingapple]

Well you got me! And I got you back too, good luck mate!

[~Shard~]

But, it doesn't seem like they're going anywhere specific with the Apple theme, so maybe not. time will tell. but the names of other apples are pretty bad, if you think about it... mcintosh was the obvious choice.

paul

Yah, that was exactly my thought as well - the other types of apple (some of which I named above) don't exactly lend themselves to hip, cool computer names. ;)

[rob_ppmax]

hello everyone. Thanks for your great response. I now have 360 emails to read and analyse. (i soo wish i had done it dynamically)


i don't really need anymore, so could you only submit more if you have comprehensive comments to say, referring to the advertising especially. (one of the last two fields)


thanks to all who contributed, and i will endeavour to read them all.


I have started a new thread, called "why i love apples more than oranges".
The basic question is, WHY are you so passionate about apple products. Why do they give your life purpose? This might seem quite extreme to a few, but from my many replies, Apple seems to be a way of life for you guys.

Rob.

[g30ffr3y]

apples are way better than peaches...

great questionaire... i just sent mine in... good luck...