Dude! appreciate the thoughts, will keep them in mind when i next speak. But my idea behind saying that understanding the Niche mentality wasn't exactly that if it's how it came off. My understanding of this was : When you as an individual are targeting to say.. take over the world with your invention. Do you: a) Just throw it out there b) Say it's out there, look for it c) Understand what people want and tailor it to suit their needs and then market it? As far as i'm concerned, Apple's taken part 3 in mind. They haven't had issues with being "just for designers" but they have had issues with.. "it's not compatible with..." and with "but it's too expensive" and as much as the latter has not been resolved fully, keep in mind that the price drop in the last 3 years has been a significant one without actually compromising quality to a greater level. With regards to the viruses: There are a few trojans out there no doubt but how many people on this thread have actually encountered and had to deal with it or know more than one person who has had to? in retrospect.. let's talk about Windows. Anyone here know anything about virus attacks there? :D (i'm not attacking you if you're a windows user, just making a counter :D) as far as the app store goes. Clarification needed but it's not a niche market. Try out Xcode and see how you fair with it. Try and host an app and see if it goes through, i won't accept that as a point hehe ;D Otherwise, hw's things going? you alright? Rahim. On 5/27/10 3:25 PM, aki wrote:
@ Rahim, my answers inline but since we already have a indication of an OT flag, will keep it as my last post for this thread. :-)
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Rahim Kara<skunkingrahim@gmail.com> wrote:
Belief in a product is essential. More than that, i think what apple has achieved over the past few years is nothing short of revolutionary. We today marvel at how we work on the mouse.. innovated on Apple technology, moved as a key selling point for Microsoft's incorporation and now a trackpad and a touchpad again with Apple.
Mouse, GUI all in the past and has no significant bearing today. Apple should also have put in this tag " Powered by FreeBSD" that they borrowed underland and further took Jordan K. Hubbard onboard. ( When I had the time, FreeBSD networking was my interest )
I agree with Rad and Glenn on the fact that the software revolution brought about by Apple's open tech was a great step in strengthening their abilities as a pioneer in the tech industry.
Poineers are relative to technology advancement. Apples only open source is Darwin. ( correction needed )
Between the 30 / 50K Laptops that reign as entry levels to Mac's 100K entry. But this is what i believe, in order to infiltrate every market, one must first prove to have the market in mind.
Need I say more about the Niche mentality?
Wants not to bother with VIRUSES etc. and wants an easy to use machine.
I like this one. I'll need to post the exploit that Apple has so far done nothing about.
Apple revolutionized the mobile market with the iPhone, a phone that all the current smart phone companies are trying to compare to, mimic and surpass, i will say trying to simply because of it's popularity.
Popularity in the middle income and higher sector?
With the iPhone came the opening of the app store. Again revolutionizing the open platform for developers to grow. Creating a market for the developers around the world to flourish.
Great! No wonder some apps that make it to the app store are crazy enough. Someone showed me the farting apps, an app where a woman undresses when you shake the phone... , and ofcourse an app that allows you to " kill your boss " violently!. I dont remember their names as it was a while back. Hey, these are fun for others so I'm not being critical.
What made iphone apps so succesful is that lame approach by Apple. One size, One market obviously would make things easier for developers and also easier for Apple to sustain. Back to square one..... Niche markets and bigger profits. Its that simple.
Post soon.
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