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The "Competition is Good for Us" Meme that needs to Die
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Some may prefer the boredom if we all used the same Apple stuff, drove the same cars, ate the same porridge and wore identical uniforms.
But I would NOT be amongst that group.
I have far too much imagination, education, enthusiasm, energy and love of life to be so narrow and restricted.
It's just that simple
Wow, you must drive a unicorn to work! That's awesome.
Anyway, if it's the best overall porridge being produced at the time, then I'll have another bowl, please. Or no, wait... On second thought, give me a bowl of that **** porridge, I want to be different for different's sake and express myself!
Wow, you must drive a unicorn to work! That's awesome.
Anyway, if it's the best overall porridge being produced at the time, then I'll have another bowl, please. Or no, wait... On second thought, give me a bowl of that **** porridge, I want to be different for different's sake and express myself!
The idea that only
produces cutting-edge technology worth using is a very narrow-minded view.
Let's take a step back and dissect this for a sec. Outside of iOS related contents and acquisition of the chip designer, apple does not invent, manufacture majority of the hardware inside of idevices. Most of key features including retina display is coming from another company's porfolio (ie LG in this case).
You guys are seeing this from a device perspective and missing the point of competition improving the supplier market which in turn trickles down to the device manufacturers. Lot of these hardware that we're considering as class leading existed and demoed multiple times.
Yet Apple is the only company that is able to integrate all those software & hardware components into a industry-leading package. I wonder why?
You do realize the iPod, iPhone, and ipad were invented by apple to compete in the mp3, smartphone, and tablet market right? Competition is good, if apple didn't innovate to compete in those markets then we wouldn't have the products we have today.
i don't disagree with the fact that apple lit the fire in those markets but flat out ignoring the fact that "competition is good for us" because apple is leading in sales in many of these category is false.
Apple even forced microsoft to develop windows mobile 7 and they seem to be striving towards the same direction as apple
You do realize this has nothing to do with what's been argued in this thread, right? The OP already addressed this.
Ok, well I haven't read page 4, but most of the arguing I saw revolved from the perspective of someone who will only buy apple products, like "how is that going to make the next apple product better if it can't even compete with the current model, there for competition is meaningless". What I was pointing out was that apple developed those products to compete with what was out there at the time, fat is how competition is good. And since apple developed those products the other manufcturers have responded with thinner and more powerfull devices and android, winpho, and webos. Competition got us the iphone and ipad and it'll get us whatever comes next that will eventually outdue the iphone.
Yup, nobody argued this.
Yup, people already addressed your explanation that competition (as commonly used in these forums) was what caused the development and successive iterations and improvements of these devices, and found your explanation wanting.
tl;dr as they say
but from what i did read this is a valid issue
thanks for recognizing it