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The Globe and Mail: Apple on its own path

updated 01:15 pm EST, Mon October 29, 2001

 
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Matt Ingram, a business analyst for The Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) has written an interesting article lauding Apple's pricing strategies:

"Apple's main selling points are that its products are cool and sexy — not the same kind of bland, commoditized PCs that everyone else has. That's why it gets people to pay substantially more for its products than Dell or Gateway or Compaq, and why it will arguably continue to get them to do so. The latest Powerbook laptop, the Titanium, is significantly more expensive than a similarly-equipped PC laptop, but it is also has a cool metallic finish and a beautiful high-resolution screen. Apple computers come with cool software for music and movie-making."


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    Mr. Duh Man.

    The latest Powerbook laptop, the Titanium, is significantly more expensive than a similarly-equipped PC laptop, but it is also has a cool metallic finish...

    There's a reason why that PowerBook is called Titanium, genius.

    Yeesh.

  1. jimothy

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    Well, actually...

    The "Titanium" is NOT significantly more expensive than a similarly-equipped PC laptop. It, along with the iBook, is competively priced with PC laptops. It's really only the desktops where Apple commands a premium.

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    "Oh, one more thing."

    The TiPB is *NOT* significantly more expensive than its wintel counterparts, folks. Even devoid of intangible (some would argue tangible, but I digress, as we ultimate end up at the same conclusion...) advantages of using the Mac OS, the newly revamped and lower-priced TiPB will more than hold its own value in face of the vast majority of its comparable wintel competition. Do the research, folks. F*ck the pundits.

    If I didn't already have a PBG3, you can bet your f**** I'd have the new TiPB.

  1. batguano2000

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    Sad State of Journalism

    Remember the days when you could trust that any journalist who published a story had actually checked his facts? Those days are long gone.

    How can he say that the Titanium "is significantly more expensive than a similarly-equipped PC laptop", when to get the same performance and features (wireless, ethernet, modem, etc) as the TiBook, one would have to have a very high end PC laptop which will usually cost more than the Powerbook G4?

    And as for the iPod comparison with the Nomad? Give me a break, these two products don't even go to the same parties, let alone speak to each other. The only thing similar is that they both have 'hardrive' and 'mp3' in their descriptions.

    The Nomand is a big, bulky mp3 player: nothing more. The iPod on the other hand is an mp3 player, a portable hard drive, (a fast hard drive at that), a diagnostic tool (you can boot from it) and a light diversion (the breakout game 'easter egg').

    Did this 'journalist' even bother to look around the forums and mac sites to get the low-down on this device. If he had, he probably would have come across reference to the iPod costing the same as the hard drive that is in it.

    The Globe & Mail ranks only slightly above the other major Canadian national paper, the National Post, and I wouldn't even use that paper as firelighter.

    Bat

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    national

    express will lose its edge soon. It was one of the only independant newspapers in Canada, and was just sold to the Globe.

    So we can expect to see the same accross the board propaganda in every major newspaper now..

  1. bryan.falchuk

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    Metallic 'finish'

    The TiBook doesn't have a metallic 'finish', but is actually metal...hmmm, go figure...See, in the PC world, you're almost always talking about a metallic finish (save the current SuperSlim VIAO 505), but not Apple...Steve and the kids hold nothing back. I don't know about you, but I ordered my iPod with 6 hours of its getting released...is it November 10th yet?

  1. batguano2000

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    re: national

    Oh that's just great...

    We can now choose the choice reading material of pointy-headed, King & Bay, "Your face shouldn't have been under that Jackboot" lawyers, or the equally vile personal sounding board of "Off our back" Conrad Black.

    Sorry, off topic.

    The link above didn't work for me, but if you go the main Globeandmail page, there is a link to the right.

    Bat

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    HIGH RES SCREEN

    ha..haha..ya

  1. asterizk

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    I find Matt Ingram's....

    I find Matt Ingram's use of the word "cool" in this article disturbing.

    Krishen

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    rephrase the idea

     
    I would say that Apple invests in R&D and sometimes charges slightly more than a simple commodity product (PC) might cost. I for one am more than willing to pay a little more considering the much better product I receive.

    Still waiting for my new Ti Book...
     

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