Notice how the Korean reporter also concludes that Apple is the copier while LG(Koreans)are the innovators.

I wonder how “flattered” LG will be when the iPhone starts to kick their mobile a**es.

CM, I am one of those retarded people who looked at the specs for the new Zune and spent $249. Unfortunately for me, the hardware was more-or-less completely crippled by Bill Gate’s software. I am also one of those people who don’t like Apple products in general. (Hell, what’s the point of buying a computer you can never play kick ass FPS games? One mouse button? Phooey. There is no joy to be had in overclocking a mac.)

But I think people will buy the iphone. you say that the only improvement is cosmetics. But well, that’s why people pay Steve’s premium to buy that nice looking product. They can’t get enough of sliding their fingers in circles. THEY LOVE THAT CUBIC BOX that packages all the apple products. I agree with you the product is crap for the money. But it appears most people disagree with us and believe that the nice lookingness of the product gives them a sense of nice feelingness. So I can see a future when all the kids are going to buy this.

On top of that there is a very strong brand image with Apple. You know what you buy will be something white, shiny, and projecting a warm glowing light. It will be fairly luddite-proof. And you will join a community of Apple fanboys like some quasi-cult religion. If you buy samsung, you have no idea what it is you are buying. There is no brand image of luddite-proofness. It’s not white. It’s not shiny. It doesnt have a warm glowing light. There is no cult for you to buy, and if you google Samsung, you will most likely hit website that talks about it’s Microsoft-like business practices.

iphones might clobber Samsung.

Can’t speak for anyone else but I have had three mp3 players in the last 2 years: iRiver, Samsung, and Rio (128, 256 and 512meg respectively). They all broke within 4 months of purchase, the first two due to the battery overheating and melting the plastic casing and the Rio LED display faded to nothing. I’ve had my iPod now for 6 months and nary a problem. The volume of the iPod is also far superior to anything I have used or tested in stores. It simply doesn’t compare.

Someone said “most tech savvy people will tell you iPod is a piece of crap.” Well the ratio of tech savvy people to non-tech savvy people in the big big market of portable digital players is outrageous and good business is in marketing the simple to those who don’t want to fuss with all the bells and whistles. Can it be that hard to figure out common sense business practices like that? Apple figured it out. So all you tech savvy people who don’t like the iPod: Bite my ass! My iPod does exactly what I want, STILL.

That’s because you’re spoiled rotten. My father paid $2638 for a 48K Apple ][+ (no disk drive or monitor though) in 1977 — which in 2005 dollars would be $8500 by strict consumer-price indexing, or $16,179 by comparing to the proportion of per-capita GDP. (I do all this math in my he

What does Brendon do for a living again? Isn’t he a lawyer? What’s your hourly rates again Brandon? I guess lawyers can afford the Mac. LOL.

My original point, Brendon, is that the average Mac is priced well above the average PC — a fact that the typical consumer is going to take into account when making a purchasing decision. Which is why PCs will continue to dominate the market for the foreseeable future, especially as Windows continues to close the gap (or at least the public perception gap) between itself and OSX.

Anyhow, I’m sure we’re all quite aware that computers these days are vastly more powerful than those of our youths, and also much cheaper. But what’s the point of making that comparison? After all, Apple isn’t competing with itself from 30 years ago.

$500 plus for a computer that doesn’t even come with a monitor, keyboard, or mouse? Seems a bit spendy to me.

That’s because you’re spoiled rotten. My father paid $2638 for a 48K Apple ][+ (no disk drive or monitor though) in 1977 — which in 2005 dollars would be $8500 by strict consumer-price indexing, or $16,179 by comparing to the proportion of per-capita GDP. (I do all this math in my head.)

Now you’re grousing about spending $500 — the equivalent of $85-175 in 1977 dollars — for a machine 2000 to 10,000 times more powerful. Yes, I suppose you could get an el strippo Windows box for $349, but that $150 could just as easily get spent on lunch somewhere good (or on “System Fix-It” spyware and anti-virus utilities). Give us a break.

Only reason why iPod is popular is because most people are stupid to understand how to use computer software properly, and itune is pretty easy to use by comparison, pretty must on the level of most public educated kids in America, and the world for that matter although most people are beginning to tune out itune as well.

I personally think people should boycott Apple and Steve Jobs for being immoral, greedy American bastards. I don’t approve of using slave labor and “Ipod City” is a perfect example of that.

Nobody has perfected slave labor better than Americans.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ar.....-7039.html

Again, for some, OSX might be worth being reamed by Steve Jobs

you sound like a jilted lover, zonath.