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One Million Copies of Lion Bought From Mac App Store
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Sales numbers like this, prove that American's are impulse buyers when the price is so low.
It proves the Genius of Apples marketing expertise.
At a measly $30 per copy, and just one easy click away, Lion will sell on those two points alone.
Hardly anything else matters, certainly not to Apple.
1) They get the Money
2) They get the Bragging Rights
They get those two things which they value more than anything in this world.
It's win/win, and Apple gets both of those wins
And the fact that Lion is a great OS has nothing to do with its sales success. Funny how you conviently over look that fact. Every single review has been beyond positive. Even the guru of hackers has praised Lion as the most secure OS to date. And this from a .0 release of an overhauled OS. Apple is the freight train that no competitor can keep up with at this point. Personally, I can't wait to download and update my Mac computers to Lion.
I remember when Apple showed the world the first iPhone. The doubters laughed at it for not having a physical keyboard and said it was not going to sell. We know how that turned out. When Apple showed the iPad the doubters made fun of its name and said that it would be a sales flop. We know how that turned out. Now everyone wants to ride the Apple train by producing tablets and smart phones that happen to look like the real Apple product. If you can't beat or compete with Apple you might as well produce a product that looks like an Apple product hoping people will buy their product. That's what I call marketing, not good marketing mind you.
You want to know why Apple is a success. It's the fact that anyone can walk into an Apple store and try out the product. Or take the product home for 2 weeks and decide if the Apple product is to the customers liking. If they don't like they can return it for a refund. There is no snake oil sales going on here as you would like people to believe. It's about producing a product of substance and quality that no other manufacture can even come close to. Sure marketing is important, if you don't tell people about your product how will they know about it. If a product does not live up to its marketing then that is pure hype. Samsung, Motorola and others have all proven that to be true. Everytime I walk into bestbuy and try out the competition products I go away shaking my head wondering how these companies can seriously think their products are worth the price they are charging.
The thing most I would be worried about buying these so called Apple killer products, is where will be the software support or support in general in 1 or 2 years. With Apple you know exactly when an OS update is coming or that there is an endless abundance of quality software that runs on the Apple hardware. User experience is what separates Apple from the competition. This is something that you fail to understand about why people are so loyal to buying Apple products. There is a good reason why Apple stores are so packed all the time.
What is the most amazing part, people are buying Apple products even in this fragile economy where people are more closely watching what they spend. This says a great deal about what people think about Apple.
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Just how is it Adobe's fault that Apple broke things in 10.7?
The purpose of the Developer Preview is so that
- Developers of user appls can get a head start on supporting new features like Resume, and be ready to go on shipment day
- Developers writing drivers (kernel extensions) can be ready with updates on day 1
- Apple can get feedback on things that Apple has broken, and fix them before shipment day
It's also the fastest that I've been able to upgrade every computer for myself, my parents, and my girlfriend.
We are all really enjoying Lion so far. My parents are really excited by inertial scrolling and two-finger swipe forward and back in Safari. And that's saying something.
Inertial scrolling and 3-finger (unless you're a fan of only 2-fingered gestures) swipes for back and forth in Safari were also present in SL. On the contrary features of SL are not present in Lion.
The impulse counts for a lot. It becomes very apparent during a Steam sale.
In my experience, the more time you spend researching a purchase. The less likely you are to make that purchase. It is only compounded by the number of choices available as well. Apple makes it a one stop shop to control every inch of their empire. Hardware, software, and developers.
That realization can go either way. The control over the perceptions of value hits everyone outside of Apple when you can not skim revenue from a transaction or on your own hardware.
So, maybe it is time to be a shareholder and watch everyone else burn. Is that the proper mentality?
I guess that's the difference between Microsoft's approach and Apple's approach. Apple isn't afraid to make changes that break existing software, Microsoft is much more interested in backwards compatibility.
Both approaches have merit, I think. With Microsoft you don't have to worry (for the most part) that your old software is going to be unusable with the upgrade, but with Apple you get the benefit of much faster and larger changes.
I know many die hard non-Apple users become happy Apple buyers from the simple fact that they used the Apple product at the Apple store and then decided that they wanted to try out the item longer. Your theory about impulse buying does not bear out with the fact that Apple has a 14 day return policy. I doubt many people would not return an expensive product they disliked given the chance to return the item. The competition that is crashing and buring are doing it to themselves. Nothing is stopping any company from producing a really great product that everyone wants to buy. This notion that people that buy Apple products are guilable or so taken by the marketing that they have this sudden urge to go out and spend a lot of money on Apple products is quite silly. I will say it again, the Apple store and the 14 day return policy. I have returned many a product because I disked it.
By the way, I am a extremely happy and profitable Apple share holder. Someone that owns Apple stock can have the opportunity to make enough money on the Apple stock to buy Apple products if they so choose to. A pretty good deal if you ask me.
That, sir, was beautiful.
And totally true. Seriously, if everyone viewed Apple like you (and I) do... there wouldn't be all these stupid arguments over blog posts!
While hardware is becoming a much more ancillary, the perception of value can not be damaged. Though this does not appear to be the case for the iPad. The "Lion is just $29, shutup an buy it!" mentality is so much easier to push. Getting a refund might take a little more effort but it does appear possible on the App Store. When did hardware come into play?
I suspected as much.
Apple has been on a furver to prove that less is more. Using lighter materials, thinner designs, shedding bulk such as optical drives. This is also mirrored in their software by shedding some legacy support. A good example of this is Rosetta. I can only imagine how much bloat Rosetta was causing in the OS for the past 5 years. At some point you have to improve your product by revamping things. This will always cause some discomfort but in the end it turns out to be a good thing. I write software for a living so I understand this all too well. I have worked many projects where the code has gotten so bloated because no one wanted to stop and revamp the code. It becomes nearly impossible to maintain software that gets like this.
There is nothing here to hide. I like the Apple products so much that I decided to invest in their stock. I have owned Apple stock since it was $85 a share. If I like a product, Apple or otherwise, I will also buy the company stock if it is available. This has always proven positive for me and it makes sense to have a long term investment in a company with a proven track record.
Haha! I like your way of thinking.
Some good numbers for Apple today. And it's well deserved. I'm enjoying Lion. I absolutely LOVE the full screen apps and Safari.
Can't wait for my 13" MBA to get here... Had to cancel my order twice for dumb reasons, and it looks like it'll get here on Monday even with overnight shipping.
Disliking all of you that got yours already
Thank you for the update. We care
$30 to Ruin you mac- Thanks Apple, No sound for starters
Upgraded to Lion and lost my sound on my iMac. Check out the web, all output devices are gone, reset smc and pram, nothing. SLoooow, this upgrade is a major downgrade. Apple has gone the way of Microsoft. Release an unfinished product and make people pay to be beta testers. It over 24 hours since the release and no fix for no sound. THAT MEANS NO ITUNES.. Check this out when Lion boots, you hear sound, once the os starts, sound is gone. Log in screen is like a big linux distro. You can't even tell, you upgraded. I would wait for some updates. NO SOUND?????? APPLE FIX THIS !!!!!!!! OH, MICROSOFT OFFICE DOES NOT WORK IN LION ALSO, WORSE APPLE RELEASE EVER!!!!!!!!!
Upgraded to Lion and lost my sound on my iMac. Check out the web, all output devices are gone, reset smc and pram, nothing. SLoooow, this upgrade is a major downgrade. Apple has gone the way of Microsoft. Release an unfinished product and make people pay to be beta testers. It over 24 hours since the release and no fix for no sound. THAT MEANS NO ITUNES.. Check this out when Lion boots, you hear sound, once the os starts, sound is gone. Log in screen is like a big linux distro. You can't even tell, you upgraded. I would wait for some updates. NO SOUND?????? APPLE FIX THIS !!!!!!!! OH, MICROSOFT OFFICE DOES NOT WORK IN LION ALSO, WORSE APPLE RELEASE EVER!!!!!!!!!
According to the above, Lion is only keeping pace with Leopard but not selling as fast as Snow Leopard was estimated to have done. Perhaps some clarification is needed before record sales figures are touted.
They don't have to. After all, at least by definition, their software only runs on their hardware anyway, which means that at least at one point in time Apple has received money from somebody. Microsoft products on the other hand run on almost everything, they don't have any control over the target hardware, so they have to come up with something to reduce piracy.
Nobody ever said it wouldn't work at all. We just said it wouldn't work for a lot of people who don't have fast Internet. I'm sure if you were able to look at where these million downloads came from it would be heavily skewed towards cities with very few people in rural areas able to buy it. Of course since Apple decided to sell the USB stick they should be able to sell to everyone now.
Come on, you forgot!!!! REVOULUTIONARY, MAGICAL, AMAZING, INDUSTRY CHANGING.....
Serisouly what are you on???? Put down the Koolaid! This is not ASTOUNDING!
One million, big deal, I gurantee you there are way more than one million Apple Fanboys, so I would have expected more. Maybe too many of them have learned thier lesson from the past and are going to wait a week/2 to see how stable it is before jumping.
I expect it to do really well. The only question is around the delivery method and not the software itself, lets see how it takes off.
You Sir are correct.
The trump card for when you really **** up!
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Maprx,
Sorry to hear about the issues you are having. If it were me I would be on the phone to Apple care support trying to get this resolved ASAP. Have you done that yet?
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