It's for tinkerers and non-thinkers who just want a cheap product.
So... what is the most important thing for Apple, making money or making good products? You seem to say that making good products is the most important thing because it brings in money, but that would mean that making money is the most important thing, and they make good products to accomplish that.
Indeed pipeline is full of mini, maxi, widi, but it will not change any of the same thing. Brace yourselves for for steady loss of market share and whatever comes from it.
Apple may full their followers, but not investors. Quiet please, I think I heard a toilet flash...
Ok, please point to the cheap Apple products flooding the lower end markets, you know, just to make a dollar.
Sorry Tim, Apple didn't invent the halo effect phrase. I have been using it in software sales since the early 90's to describe the additional downstream value you get or your customers can get from an unrelated software implementation...and I didn't invent the phrase either, I read it in an article somewhere.
This was what they taught in business schools 20 years ago. What they teach now is Stakeholder Theory. A business exists to meet the needs of all the stakeholders which include shareholders, employees, customers, the community, etc. Not all stakeholders get the same priority, but managers have to balance the needs of all those people. So, I wish people would give the old "we exist only to make money" thing a rest. Granted, if a company is not profitable it simply fails. But good management requires a balancing of many constituencies.
What do you use it primarily for? As an eReader? Photos? Movies?
The Halo Effect is a perceptual bias that has been researched by psychologists for decades. It is nothing new.
even if this were true, i don't know many tinkerers that are non-thinkers.
If they don't make the best products, the money will not follow.
Really? Your response is vaporware?
Are saying that they make the best products so that money will follow, and they want money just so they can use it to make the best products? Just making sure I'm reading right. If that's the case, they should be spending their money improving their products instead of paying it to me in dividends.
Problem arise when a company do not listen to market demand no more...
Bigger screen size for iPhone.
a more affordable ,entry-level,laptop for education for exemple.
a iCloud that can be use as Dropbox...
Check the iPad mini!!!! Market ask for a smaller tablet size. you.ve done it and sell millions!
Excellent question.
The main reason I bought it was for reading PDFs - I've recently gone back to school and the programme I'm studying is all about journal articles, scanned book chapters, etc. That was my justification for buying it - previously I had a bog standard Kindle (which I adored) and despite its being a wonderful device its ability to display PDFs in a viewable manner was terrible (also owned an iPad gen 1). Of course the mini for more than PDFs today, when not reading I admit I have a terrible addiction to iOS games (currently it's Joe Danger!). I've not forgot a Kindle at all, in fact the one I got rid of it I upgraded to the Paperwhite (which is even better) so I don't normally (there are exceptions) read eBooks on my mini (Kindle matches battery life in days/weeks what my mini lasts in hours).
Same here. I have 3 other friends who are all waiting for a Retina iPad mini as well. It's the perfect form factor. Just need that Retina screen.Interesting because I too have a Kindle (keyboard) for 2 years, bought the iPad mini, then returned it because i as well didn't like the type for reading nor the battery life. I'm not a gamer so wasn't compelled to keep it plus I have an iPad 3.
However once the mini get Retina I will pounce.
+1. The whole point of a company is to make profit
Interesting because I too have a Kindle (keyboard) for 2 years, bought the iPad mini, then returned it because i as well didn't like the type for reading nor the battery life. I'm not a gamer so wasn't compelled to keep it plus I have an iPad 3.
However once the mini get Retina I will pounce.
"The most important thing to Apple is to make the best products in the world. We aren't interested in revenue for revenue's sake."
The bold part is the part I call unbelievable. The underlined part is the part I agree with.
The market asked for 7". The iPad mini is not 7".
It's the halo effect, as we termed it
Apple has now invented the term "halo effect" now too?
What can't they do....