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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
You have a short memory or are too young to remember macbooks getting so hot and burning people's laps. Or OS Leopard problems of '07, iMac display problems in '07, and on and on back to the Apple Newton from 1988, or the shadow of a bankruptcy in 2002.
A person has to have a significant amount of emotional bias against Apple to believe that Apple's success is solely because of a sympathetic media and mindless robot customers.
As for Android tablets competing with the iPad, Google stumbled significantly IMO with the non-release of Honeycomb. In a fledgling market with a rapidly growing 800lb gorilla there is no room for a misstep. It will take some time for Google to regroup and I believe that Ice Cream Cone will be a big step.
As for the HP TouchPad, it will stumble out of the gate just like the Playbook. It is fascinating to see how everyone laughed at the iPad when it was first announced in Jan 2010, but resulted in companies like HP scrapping their tablet plans. The bar has been raised for HP because of the stumbled starts of competitors and an 18 month regrouping.
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i would so be willing to bet my retirement savings that 80% of apple owners own the said product only because it's Apple and have no reason why they "think" it's better than competing products.
You really think that tweener in her Hello Kittybackpack would want anything else but an iPod even if you show her the Sansa's or Walkman's are that much better.
or how about that hipster in his early 20's with his fake black rimmed glasses, fedora hat on, sipping soy milk latte's, do you really think they buy a mac, iPad or iPhone because of anything else besiders that apple logo?
You are very blinded to this reality.