The MOST AMAZING APPLE FACT!

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
haha, i know you where expecting to read the



MOST AMAZING APPLE FACT EVER,



but I was actually wondering what you thought it was. What is the most amazing thing about apple that makes it different from other companies?



Most amazing = cool (so nothign about apple's amazing price, haha)

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 14
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Mac OS X and its associated apps in general.
  • Reply 2 of 14
    imudimud Posts: 140member
    Yea OS X is just great, please don't flame me, but I didn't really like the old Mac OS, but OS X blows me away. I can't wait to see 10.2 with its openGL windows.
  • Reply 3 of 14
    schrumplschrumpl Posts: 44member
    but OS X blows me away. I can't wait to see 10.2 with its openGL windows.



    the affordable mac to handle os 10.2 with it's opengl windows REALLY smooth isn't inventet yet.
  • Reply 4 of 14
    not unlike myselfnot unlike myself Posts: 2,037member
    Most amazing fact? That the justice department isn't beating down THEIR door....yet.
  • Reply 5 of 14
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    The brand. Nothing else about them is worth nearly as much as their name.



    They have a kind of brand mystique that few companies have, especially for a tech company.
  • Reply 6 of 14
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Actually, according to the stockholders, the rest of whatever it is they have isn't worth a whole lot more than that stockpile of cash they have.



    :: starts wondering when they are going to turn that pile into less liquid assets... ::
  • Reply 7 of 14
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    How about the fact that Austin Powers use a mac.

  • Reply 8 of 14
    odenshawodenshaw Posts: 20member
    [quote]Originally posted by Spart:

    <strong>Actually, according to the stockholders, the rest of whatever it is they have isn't worth a whole lot more than that stockpile of cash they have.



    :: starts wondering when they are going to turn that pile into less liquid assets... ::</strong><hr></blockquote>





    im feeling you on that one. What do they have 11 per share in cash and short term investments. I think that the rest of the company is worth $4 and change per share.

    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 9 of 14
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    I think the fact that they're still around is amazing. When you consider them hemorrhaging so much money in bad research, poor projects, desperate schemes, clone licensing, golden parachutes, missed opportunities, bad marketing, bad leadership, poor protection of its intellectual property, bad sales, bad PR, dumb distractions, yadda yadda, it gives you some perspective. There are few companies that have pulled themselves out of sheer nose-dives like Apple did. Even though it's a struggle to keep the thing level even now, it's a lot better than it used to be.
  • Reply 10 of 14
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    the first PowerBook was actually designed and produced by Sony (or at least one of the first ones)
  • Reply 11 of 14
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    the fact that the Apple I was in fact the first 'home/personal' computer

    a) that was

    b) that was affordable

    c) that could actually do something (unlike the altair)

    So, everybody can say what they want about X, but without Apple, there maybe wouldn't have been anything like X, nor like Windows, or like Dell, or Compaq, or (i.e. no consumer hardware/software).

    THAT is, I think, the most remarkable Apple fact
  • Reply 12 of 14
    sir mac o' the islessir mac o' the isles Posts: 157member
    The continued success o' the MacIntosh computer is entirely dependent on the festival o' The Wicker Mac celebrated in the mare bedarkened corners o' the Western Isles. For this a large Mac effigy is woven frae canes (dyed in appropriate hues) and at the appropriate time set aflame (wi' optional human sacrifice), thus appeasing the dark forces o' marketness and ensuring the survival o' the platform for anither year.
  • Reply 13 of 14
    junkyard dawgjunkyard dawg Posts: 2,801member
    I'm most amazed that people make aquariums out of perfectly good Macs.
  • Reply 14 of 14
    gambitgambit Posts: 475member
    The most amazing Apple fact is: they did in four years what Linux couldn't do in twelve (STILL can't, actually): they made a simple, easy to use GUI on top of UNIX. It HARDLY gets more amazing than that.
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