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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (85418)	9/25/2009 12:13:00 PM
From: OrionX	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213185

"Yeah, but Apple isn't really selling high tech anymore. Most of its business is selling gadgets, and even the computer/non-gadget side is pretty much gadgetized here in the year 2009 anyway." You have a rather lollipop attitude on Apple products. You forget that Apple computers are used in film and TV markets as well as in many research labs, academic and business. IMO, the iPhone is as far removed from a gadget as I can think of. A computer in your hand is hardly a gadget.

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (85418)	9/25/2009 12:17:28 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 213185

Yeah, but Apple isn't really selling high tech anymore. Most of its business is selling gadgets, and even the computer/non-gadget side is pretty much gadgetized here in the year 2009 anyway. Well, yes and no. The hardware is reduced to its most simple form, and that may now be considered non-high tech - but it took exceptional design effort to get it there, and some new "high tech" hardware still peeks through (touch, multi-core, etc.). The fact that people much prefer Macs and iPhones (once they buy into the Apple ecosystem) is partially due to elegant industrial design and the fact that while the price is high, you don't get nickel and dimed to add functionality after your purchase (because so much of that functionality is built-in). Most of the real high tech is in the software - Apple excels at that with their excellent user interface and software.

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (85418)	9/25/2009 3:18:19 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213185

Well I have to disagree with you here. A clerk selling a T-shirt does not have to understand WiFi, wireless telephone codecs, cross platform issues, legacy issues, usb/firewire/ethernet, airport, software availability and a myriad of other technical issues. Yes in general they are easy to use, but you still have to SELL customers, and to do that you have to know why the customer will love it. It's different than the whiteshirts. In fact an iPod is probably as powerful as a 69' mainframe, and I know it runs way more TYPES of software. Watch the kids with these things My guess is younger people don't buy at Apple stores very often, since you can almost always buy things cheaper elsewhere. But I also think salespeople at Apple are constantly grilled on technical issues, and people use them to fill in gaps in their knowledge, which leads to sales. For example: Many windows people, even fairly knowledgable windows people who make a living writing about tech, still think there have been viruses on OSX Macs. They confuse proof of concept with actual viruses in the wild. A Gap guy from a Gap store that was 100% windows could easily think that misconception is true and tell a customer that all they have to do is run an antivirus app. Lost sale.