What you refuse to see is Apple's continuing primacy in apps development and growth in high end sales in the US, Japan, and China, SE Asia, India, and other geographies. What basis do you have for suggesting I don't see this? Not only do I see it, but I see it in my daily course of business. Apple's ability to sell devices with huge markups (resulting in huge profits) in the US and Japan in particular are impressive. The fact that I suspect much of the recent growth in Asia is driven by the cultural love for American products and Apple's reputation it rightfully obtained a few years ago as a superb American company doesn't mean I refuse to see their success. Nor does the fact that I think the trend we're seeing with Samsung's expensive phones and Apple's tablets is a precursor of a continuing move to cheaper high-quality devices.
More generally, your criticisms are restatements of the android blogger community. They are in no way novel or thoughtful and they are not persuasive, largely because they are unsupported Many are not novel, but that doesn't mean they're invalid. And again, many are not repetitive or irrelevant, as they involve the market conditions today that didn't exist in the past. And I wouldn't presume that your (or other Apple bull) opinions of the company are particularly novel either. Some of my opinions, while not completely unique, are not as common as you presume. For example, I haven't come across anyone who advocates that Apple could double it's value with an aggressive move to better monetize it's traffic. |
