samian5747

jungmark said:

samian5747 said:

Price, price, price. Apple is more and more positioning itself as a luxury upscale Rolex or Mercedes type product. Under Jobs they were just a quality electronics company that sold at a premium. Their entry level devices are the same price as others premium products.  I've said before that Jobs knew the value of having a quality product that could reach a wider audience. Under current management, it is margins, margins, margins. 

You obviously don't know much. Margins were about the same under Jobs. Remember when Jobs released the high-priced and under-spec' MBA? Remember the original cost of the iPhone? I could go on...

Ok, you don't seem to know much about history.  The MacBook Air was critically acclaimed for its cutting edge technology but sold poorly until the price dropped precipitously a year later. The original iPhone suffered from bad press related to its high price resulting in a large $200 price cut and a $100 store credit given to early adopters. If you do a little research before you type, you would find that Apple's margins have (with a few blips here and there) steadily increased since 2007. I would suggest that it is actually you who knows little about margins.  I could go on...

Price, price, price. Apple is more and more positioning itself as a luxury upscale Rolex or Mercedes type product. Under Jobs they were just a quality electronics company that sold at a premium. Their entry level devices are the same price as others premium products.  I've said before that Jobs knew the value of having a quality product that could reach a wider audience. Under current management, it is margins, margins, margins. 

I've been buying Macs and iPhones since the first ones the first ones were released. They have always been more pricey than their windows or android counterparts. US$1200 however is considerablably more everywhere else in the world. Where I live for example a $1200 iPhone would be a $2000 iPhone. That is priced  completely out of my range for a phone...  no matter how amazing it is.  Let's be honest here, the new screen and wireless charging are not exactly new and innovative. I think they need to be extremely careful not  to price themselves so premium that no one but the 1% can buy their phones  outside of the U.S. The rest of the world is Apple's biggest market. 

rogifan_new said:

mubaili said:

everything is obviousness in hindsight

So sliding a bar to unlock a barn door or a latch to lock/unlock a bathroom stall didn't exist before 2007? Perhaps Apple had some unique implementation that only they could ever have thought of. Other than that slide to unlock was obvious way before iPhone existed.

  aaaahh  but it isn't a barn door or door of any kind. It's merely a graphical representation of a slider... it's the software and the technology behind it that is unique. Rockets and airplanes go up into the sky, and people have been throwing rocks up in the air for a long time. It's the technology behind trying to throw a satellite up in the air  that differentiates it from throwing a  rock. 

Many great inventions seem obvious in hindsight. Just saying you can't patent something because it's obvious is ridiculous.  The wheel seems obvious in hindsight but I took millennia to invent, and  it was never independently invented in the New World. Often years of research and millions of dollars goes into inventing what seems to be obvious after it ends up in the shipping product.