The MS Vista announcement was a blip. It had none of the staying power of Apple's current events which is what has held Apple in the news.
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The MS Vista announcement was a blip. It had none of the staying power of Apple's current events which is what has held Apple in the news.
only at MacRumors...
can a story about Apple being the most covered tech company (in the US) generate more negs than positives. Telling...
Can't we just redirect some of these folks to Paul Thurratt's inspired site?
Sometimes I feel like I am reading the comments at slash, giz or engadget.
cheers,
michael
can a story about Apple being the most covered tech company (in the US) generate more negs than positives. Telling...
Can't we just redirect some of these folks to Paul Thurratt's inspired site?
Sometimes I feel like I am reading the comments at slash, giz or engadget.
cheers,
michael
Uh, yeah. When Google bought it, it didn't have touch capabilities. Their first mockups were Blackberry-like. The success of the iPhone convinced Google to go for touch. Not in any patent or exclusive way, but it's pretty clear that they follow, as most tech business has for the last decade, on the heels of whatever Apple does next.
There were music players before the iPod, but the iPod was cool. Huge amounts of storage. Click wheel. iTunes. iTunes store. Bingo!
iPhone. 2007. Way ahead of everyone else there. The smartphone is introduced. Wild success. Market redefined.
iPad! ("I'd rather have a netbook! Where's the multitasking, the USB! iOS is a toy OS!) That was, what, March? Why is everybody taking so long to compete? Because they were far behind. All those Windows 7 tablets, who's released them? Nowhere. It will be next year before there's real competition. The successful competitors will used Android or Chrome, not Windows. Windows Phone 7 will come out, and it's a complete restart for Microsoft. They built on the Zune to create a phone, instead of trying to repurpose Windows. Seems like Apple was right. Why? The market tells us that's true.
The point is, there are some who are trying to make this survey imply that the "mainstream media" is biased against (insert your fave tech here), but they're not. Apple has created new sectors of the market by innovation. Sometimes they get effective competition, but sometimes they don't.
So apple copies no-one.. only google, MS, rim, samsung sony, etc etc copy people??
Thats why I commented to that previous poster... it was silly.
Nothing of what apple makes is more feature filled than a competitor. Then are just very very good at marketing. From iPods to iPhones... and soon to be iPads.. competition will surpass.
First of all, Apple does it's share of copying too, however, you discount their innovation in products such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad, their laptops, iMacs, and the OS. Yes, they do their share of copying, but they exceed at innovation.
Innovation is not just a hardware spec sheet, it's how it all comes together that has made Apple stand out. No other tech company on this planet has made complex technology so accessible and easy to use. Over the years they have set the standard for innovation, quality and support.
There is a reason so many people love their products and it's more than just good marketing.
Top tech companies? it's all about what you find important. The latest 'ah, look at me phone' or something else. I've blocked the name of the company which is the second largest company in the world by revenue.
12% and 15.6% aren't record breaking for solar cells...
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Weet ik niet. Maar je begrijpt het niet he? Het gaat erom wat echt belangrijk is in de wereld. Voor de meesten hier is dat Apple. Triest, erg triest. Don't bother to ask for a translation, I assume you are Flemish.
Good news, bad news its all the same. Apple is the best so they get more coverage of their products.
Blackbird journalism. I enjoyed the juxtaposition of the research firm's project name (Excellence in Journalism) with the nature of the report: massive reporting on a small selection of tech companies of mostly positive stories. Bad job, professional journalism.
http://books.google.com/books?id=c8...ved=0CA8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=blackbird&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=c8...ved=0CA8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=blackbird&f=false
Considered the quality of their products, I think Microsoft gets more favorable news coverage that they don't deserve.
Look at Windows Phone 7, what new things does it bring to the market? Zero. I don't expect revolutionary things like support for capacitive screen, multi-touch, finger-friendly UI, App Store, etc. I am talking about just ordinary "new" thing. Still, zero!
It's just a catch-up product that they finally were able to finish 3.5 years after the first iPhone was released. But if you read the news about it, it seems like it's a killer product.
Look at Windows Phone 7, what new things does it bring to the market? Zero. I don't expect revolutionary things like support for capacitive screen, multi-touch, finger-friendly UI, App Store, etc. I am talking about just ordinary "new" thing. Still, zero!
It's just a catch-up product that they finally were able to finish 3.5 years after the first iPhone was released. But if you read the news about it, it seems like it's a killer product.
Weet ik niet. Maar je begrijpt het niet he? Het gaat erom wat echt belangrijk is in de wereld. Voor de meesten hier is dat Apple. Triest, erg triest. Don't bother to ask for a translation, I assume you are Flemish.
Oh, maar ik begrijp zeker waar je het over hebt, er zijn meer belangrijke dingen in de wereld dan wat meer pixels, een iets snellere cpu of het nieuwste (en duurste) speeltje op de markt. Ik ben dan ook niet bij de "meesten" op dit forum
Ik lees gewoon graag wat de toekomst brengen zal.Ik ben ook geïnteresseerd in de dingen die echt een verschil kunnen maken zoal energie-productie, -transport, -opslag, thermische isolatie ect. Je hebt voor 100% gelijk!
For other forum members: no bad language was used in the above text
The study covered June 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010. The iPhone 4 has only been out since June 24, 2010.
I remember when I didn't know much about Apple, like in 2003 or something. Breaking news on CNN, CNBC and Fox, Apple new firmware allowed for video to be played on a horrible 1 inch display on the ipod. (I'm pretty sure that's what it was. Either that, or Apple introduce a new iPod with a horrible screen that played video.) The news was actually promoted as the most revolutionary thing since color television, and I thought it was weird, considering that for years I had been following these video players, with big beautiful screens that played many different video formats, not just one. I saw it as corporations doing favors for each other. I scratch your back, you scratch mine.
Someone on the board of directors of Apple is also a very large shareholder in a media conglomerate which owns a major new outlet. Not only might influence in what the media industry covers flow in one direction, but the knowledge of what someone needs to do (say some teen pop star or tech company) to stay newsworthy might flow in the other direction to influence product (or teeniebopper packaging) strategy.
Well said John. It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant some people are when they attack Apple's ability to innovate. I guess some people have very short memories or selective memories perhaps.
However, at the end of the day I think Apple steals so much media attention for the same reason Megan Fox or Angelina Jolie does. Apple is sexy.
'More feature filled'? Another one who just doesn't get what makes Apple successful.
But here's a clue If your feature-obsessed electronics company and Apple both went into home building, these are the competing products they might come out with
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Not really. Be unbiased for a second. HP and countless other companies show off some slates early January, and not a peep anywhere. Apple shows off the iPad late January and the media explosion was just unbelievable. I went to my cousin's house that day, and they had the Spanish channel on, and the promo for the 6 O'clock news was the story about the iPad. Think about it, I mean the HP slate looked identical to the iPad, don't you find it odd that Apple basically got covered as strongly as Michael Jackson's death?
The difference was that one was a sort-of prototype that was maybe going to be on the market late 2010 or in 2011 and run some version of Windows... maybe. Ballmer handled the HP pad like it had been dipped in dogsh*t before it was handed to him.
The Apple was a finished product group that was presented professionally.