Why apple products? and where for the future?

Mick T

Hi all

Just doing a little research for an assignment , id like to know peoples views on apple products and why they love or if the case may be hate them so much and where they think apple may be going in the future.

Thanks
Mick

spidermonkey

1. They design nice looking products using non standard materials,
Just look at the new MacBook Pro video on the apple site, the case is machined from a single block of aluminium, or for example, using glass in the iPhone. Most other manufacturers still use plastics and tried and tested materials, they dont have the balls to create something risque.

2. They create user friendly software.
Their OS is so simple to use and configure.
When i first used OSX i kept doing things the microsoft way(arseways and backwards) Apples operating system is very well thought out, it does have its design flaws but as a whole its in another league compared to windows.
Even look at the iPhone operating system, multitouch for the masses (where's microsofts surface yoke?).

3. They care (or at least look like they do)
A few weeks ago the charge lead of my MacBook Pro started to come loose from the powerbrick. I rang them up out of concern, the following day a new one arrived in the post, along with all the nessessary materials and packaging for UPS to collect the old charger the following day.
Also apple seem to support the environment and gay couples.

And they innovate.
And they are a marketing genius.

Mick T

spidermonkey wrote: »

1. They design nice looking products using non standard materials,
Just look at the new MacBook Pro video on the apple site, the case is machined from a single block of aluminium, or for example, using glass in the iPhone. Most other manufacturers still use plastics and tried and tested materials, they dont have the balls to create something risque.

2. They create user friendly software.
Their OS is so simple to use and configure.
When i first used OSX i kept doing things the microsoft way(arseways and backwards) Apples operating system is very well thought out, it does have its design flaws but as a whole its in another league compared to windows.
Even look at the iPhone operating system, multitouch for the masses (where's microsofts surface yoke?).

3. They care (or at least look like they do)
A few weeks ago the charge lead of my MacBook Pro started to come loose from the powerbrick. I rang them up out of concern, the following day a new one arrived in the post, along with all the nessessary materials and packaging for UPS to collect the old charger the following day.
Also apple seem to support the environment and gay couples.

And they innovate.
And they are a marketing genius.

Hey Spidermonkey

Thanks very much for taking the time out to reply, youve given me some very good points and links there to think about, im a big lover of apple products and i think you've pretty much hit the nail on the head there with your points.

thanks again
mick

johnk123

Spidermonkey sums it up well.

With regards to the future..... hmm.... i predict touchscreens everywhere! LOL

And maybe, just maybe......a mac tablet anyone??

spidermonkey

For the future, both from Macrumors in recent days.

One interesting topic that came up was questions about Apple's interest in the low-cost netbook category of platform. Jobs made it clear that Apple chooses not to target the low-cost notebook market and believes it is a nascent category that will evolve.

Most interesting, however, was that Jobs hinted that if the category does evolve, Apple has "some pretty interesting ideas" about it. Jobs makes it clear that Apple is not going to be competing in this market at this time.

a search engine company shared with me on condition that I not reveal its name: The company spotted Web visits from an unannounced Apple product with a display somewhere between an iPhone and a MacBook. Is it the iPhone 3.0 or the NetMac 1.0?

Similar sightings were spotted in the months before the iphone was announced, but who knows! :cool:

EDIT:
And from what I've read about Ives in the past, Apple has a tendency to fully prototype its own machines in its design labs, of who only a team of 10 have access. The have access to all the prototyping machines they need and If I remember correctly there might have been some new machine delivered to apple many months ago - probably the machine used to create the new macbooks from a single block of aluminium.

Also of note is that apple are heading for a plateau, in that most of their products are reaching maturity, and innovations will begin to dwindle. They've nailed the phone, mp3 player, desktops and laptops, completed a change from ppc to intel with ease and their OS is solid.

Apple have managed to catch their competitors with their pants down, which is why their products are so revolutionary, but what can they do now?? TBH multitouch laptops would be cool, but would it really be user friendly? Apple have filed patents for a dual sided iphone thing that could be a clamshell dual touch screen device, could that be the future? only ten people know