Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Apple Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: inaflash who wrote (57823)	10/13/2006 11:33:57 AM
From: vc21	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

It's called helping the next quarter a little cause you know you aren't going to move 14 million iPods.

To: inaflash who wrote (57823)	10/13/2006 11:45:50 AM
From: aaplfan	Respond to of 213177

They're following the auto industry (not the best current example) when the model T came out in only black. As much as you or I don't think colors matter, they really do. It's a low cost, high return "feature", as long as it doesn't get out of hand. Well put and I couldn't agree more. Anyone who doesn't think this is the case, why is it that you can choose among far more color/interior combinations on a car, with clothing, etc. than consumer electronics? Surely car companies don't enjoy the hassle of all this customization which makes no functional difference. To a typical technical person (i.e. the type of person who makes these decisions at tech companies), the response is 'bah! it makes no difference in how well it performs.' Well, neither does the paint job on a car... yet it does help sell them. Now give this information to someone with no sense of aesthetics and you'll get a brown lump ;-)