Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler So I stopped into a Bose store today....

So does Bose, atleast to some. I'll give you that Apples products are generally of higher quality especially products like their computers but from an overall perspective I find both companies very similar.

Yeah, but if a Mac is listed as running at 2.66 GHz, with 4 GB of RAM, it has that. If Apple talks about a program running on a Mac, it does that.

If Bose talks about music playing well on their speakers, they're out and out lying.

Apple generally discloses their designs, although they certainly have patents. Bose doesn't, and hides behind those patents.

Apple usually uses high quality parts and processes. Bose uses fiberboard and paper.

You can say their marketing is kinda similar, but...

I'm not sure how you got $11K with that config, but I'm curious if you tried to configure similar at Dell or HP. In the past, if you got into the workstation territory, the 3 companies were pretty equivalent--except maybe in the cost of RAM. Maybe.

Their biggest marketing tool, their commercials (advertising computers) are a dishonest and misleading way to market a product IMO. Enough to not want me to buy their products.

Everyone's commercials are misleading. That's why I don't watch 'em.

Pentium 4--speeds up the internet!
Sony PS3--turns you into a bloodthirsty maniac!
Pepsi--makes you cool!
Drugs--gives you free fried eggs!

Neither of those 3 companies main adversting campaign is to directly attack their competitors to the degree Apple has. If your product is so great tell me about it. Its a slimy way to do business. Pepsi has done it in the past but nobody takes the cake like Apple.

BTW I don't drink Pepsi either.

People complained when Apple had non specific ads (which were, btw, authorized by the families or the people in them). Now people complain when they advertise against their competitors?

OK, how about this one:
nVidia--the way it's meant to be played.
Microsoft's massive, massive, massive campaigns against Linux. They sponsor studies, man. Bad ones, at that.

Microsoft are no angels either - not as bad as Apple IMO. Products generally cheaper, some better than Apples, others not. Microsofts products for the most part also do not incorporate a proprietary design or proprietary mandatory software. Example: I-Tunes for their I-pods.

Um. Zune software for Zunes? You can't even use a Zune with a Mac.

You see any open source Xbox 360s lying around?


Gah, I can't believe I'm in an Apple argument online. I've said my say. I'm out.

I think Richard Stallman would kiss you.