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10 Aug 2010, 12:03 am

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"In the June quarter close to 50% of Apple's revenue was derived from products that did not exist in the market just over three years ago.,"

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/05/ ... 37-a-year/

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10 Aug 2010, 4:30 am

When Apple say they innovate, they don't mess around!



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10 Aug 2010, 6:19 pm

I see nothing more than planned obsolescence.



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10 Aug 2010, 8:26 pm

CloudWalker wrote:
I see nothing more than planned obsolescence.

It's called good business practice. If a product was built to last, the company wouldn't make as much money. Planned obsolescence is embraced by all consumer product manufacturers.


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12 Aug 2010, 4:16 am

Yes. Think of all those products that Apple enthusiasts have been buying for the last few decades. Apple's marketing philosophy is based firmly on people with more money than sense, who will swallow the line that paying more makes them more important.



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12 Aug 2010, 6:18 am

I think rather than it was an under served market for 20 years. I'm not seeing any technology even vaguely indistinguishable from magic.

Innovation? No. More like they are finally overcoming decades of procrastination. Also, I bet a big chunk of that is the iphone app store product, which means its innovative users rather than Mother Corp™.


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13 Aug 2010, 5:32 pm

They certainly know, what they're doing.


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14 Aug 2010, 9:06 pm

CloudWalker wrote:
I see nothing more than planned obsolescence.


Actually I believe it would be perceived obsolescence.


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16 Aug 2010, 3:16 am

peterd wrote:
Yes. Think of all those products that Apple enthusiasts have been buying for the last few decades. Apple's marketing philosophy is based firmly on people with more money than sense, who will swallow the line that paying more makes them more important.


Oh shut up, perhaps you're ignorant to the fact that Apple pretty much invented the personal computer?