-Significant protection of their market (barriers of entry?)
The hardware and software of the iPhone and iTunes is designed in a manner which makes illegitimate media and software difficult to maintain. Current iPhones have severe limitations regarding "Jailbreaking". This includes the inability to reboot a JBed device unattended, the perceived risks involved in SSHing and downloading unapproved software, the amount of time, energy, and research necessary to actually install pirated IPAs, etcetc.
With this push and pull of limitations and benefits, the iPhone succeeds in changing consumer behavior.
Quit with your backpedalling and just admit it when you are wrong, you need to say what you mean, when talking about audio and saying digital you are talking about all digital audio including CD's DVD's and Blu-ray.
Only if you're a pedantic moron. Everyone else around here knows digital refers to digital downloads. Who the hell has analog music media anymore outside a few vinyl and 8-track freaks?
I'd like to share that I've become part of this "purchasing" demographic;
Until recently I had a developed habit of obtaining free software as well as media,
but since I've purchased my 3GS I've found myself purchasing apps as well as music,
even though I've had alternatives.
[excellent points deleted]
Apple is strategically creating customers through forcing a change in their consumption behavior. I have experienced this first hand, and by damn was I surprised!
At the core of their business, Apple doesn't make things, nor even services, they create customers! Golly I'd be surprised if Google, MS, Palm or any other player in the market can successfully imitate that.
Nice post and this is what a lot of other companies are so bad at doing and only pay lip service to. Arguably, Apple enjoys a demographic where price isn't king and free/cheap doesn't trump convenience. It wouldn't be as likely to work on the lower end of the customer spectrum. There's no way for Nordstroms to attract customers from Walmart on the basis of service and quality.
Slightly tangent, Walmart drives me insane with cluttered and messy aisles and poor service so I shop Target instead with wider, neat aisles, and mostly happy, helpful staff with competitive but not as low pricing. I guess that puts me into that 1 cut above the lowest end demographic.
Pedantic seems to be a popular word around here. LOL.
Probably because a lot of us around here are that INTJ personalities prone to be pedantic, know what the word means and prefer fancy words to "annoying *sshole" .
Probably because a lot of us around here are that INTJ personalities prone to be pedantic, know what the word means and prefer fancy words to "annoying *sshole" .
I?ve spent the last half hour going over the Myers & Briggs personality types. I had never heard of this before. Interesting stuff. I?d say I fall into the extroverted v. introverted category.
PS: Could ?iNtuitive? be the first use of a lower-case ?i? followed by a capital letter?
Only if you're a pedantic moron. Everyone else around here knows digital refers to digital downloads. Who the hell has analog music media anymore outside a few vinyl and 8-track freaks?
Who is the moron? There you go splitting digital and analog and totally ignoring the fact that all the optical media are digital as well
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-Significant protection of their market (barriers of entry?)
The hardware and software of the iPhone and iTunes is designed in a manner which makes illegitimate media and software difficult to maintain. Current iPhones have severe limitations regarding "Jailbreaking". This includes the inability to reboot a JBed device unattended, the perceived risks involved in SSHing and downloading unapproved software, the amount of time, energy, and research necessary to actually install pirated IPAs, etcetc.
With this push and pull of limitations and benefits, the iPhone succeeds in changing consumer behavior.
Quit with your backpedalling and just admit it when you are wrong, you need to say what you mean, when talking about audio and saying digital you are talking about all digital audio including CD's DVD's and Blu-ray.
Only if you're a pedantic moron. Everyone else around here knows digital refers to digital downloads. Who the hell has analog music media anymore outside a few vinyl and 8-track freaks?
I'd like to share that I've become part of this "purchasing" demographic;
Until recently I had a developed habit of obtaining free software as well as media,
but since I've purchased my 3GS I've found myself purchasing apps as well as music,
even though I've had alternatives.
[excellent points deleted]
Apple is strategically creating customers through forcing a change in their consumption behavior. I have experienced this first hand, and by damn was I surprised!
At the core of their business, Apple doesn't make things, nor even services, they create customers! Golly I'd be surprised if Google, MS, Palm or any other player in the market can successfully imitate that.
Nice post and this is what a lot of other companies are so bad at doing and only pay lip service to. Arguably, Apple enjoys a demographic where price isn't king and free/cheap doesn't trump convenience. It wouldn't be as likely to work on the lower end of the customer spectrum. There's no way for Nordstroms to attract customers from Walmart on the basis of service and quality.
Slightly tangent, Walmart drives me insane with cluttered and messy aisles and poor service so I shop Target instead with wider, neat aisles, and mostly happy, helpful staff with competitive but not as low pricing. I guess that puts me into that 1 cut above the lowest end demographic.
Pedantic seems to be a popular word around here. LOL.
Probably because a lot of us around here are that INTJ personalities prone to be pedantic, know what the word means and prefer fancy words to "annoying *sshole"
Probably because a lot of us around here are that INTJ personalities prone to be pedantic, know what the word means and prefer fancy words to "annoying *sshole"
I?ve spent the last half hour going over the Myers & Briggs personality types. I had never heard of this before. Interesting stuff. I?d say I fall into the extroverted v. introverted category.
PS: Could ?iNtuitive? be the first use of a lower-case ?i? followed by a capital letter?
Only if you're a pedantic moron. Everyone else around here knows digital refers to digital downloads. Who the hell has analog music media anymore outside a few vinyl and 8-track freaks?
Who is the moron? There you go splitting digital and analog and totally ignoring the fact that all the optical media are digital as well