Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem

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From: John Slade
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:13

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On 7/18/2010 10:06 PM, John Navas wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:44:50 -0700, in
> <4c4367b7$0$22115$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, SMS
> <scharf.steven@geemail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 17/07/10 9:05 AM, John Slade wrote:
>>
>>> The iPad, iPhone, iPod and iPod touch are brilliant moves by Apple. They
>>> make great devices despite this problem with the iPhone 4. As for their
>>> low end offerings, it's the Mini and iMac. They both have low-end
>>> performance but Apple can sell them at mid-range to high-end prices
>>> because they make them cute and small. Most people want practical and
>>> cheap over cute and small.
>>
>> Most people feel that way, which is why the worldwide market share for
>> Macs has not changed much, hovering between 3 and 4% for many years.
>>
>> Apple realized that there were sufficient numbers of consumers that did
>> not always buy the cheapest and most practical products to build a very
>> profitable business around. As did Lexus, Acura, BMW, etc.
>
> What a tortured analogy.
>

      Yea BMW and Acura acually make cars that are better than a 
lot of the competition. The Mac uses the same CPUs(engines) as 
the competition. So there is no real quality advantage when you 
buy Mac hardware.

John

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