March 31st, 2006 @ 3:32 pm
apple(s) to oranges
We Heart Apple, Bose, and Dell - Gizmodo
Forrester Research has discovered that the top three “trustworthy†electronics manufacturers were Apple, Bose, and Dell. Microsoft scored lowest in both perceived growth and trustiness while Sony is floating somewhere in the middle.
This is the biggest pile of crap ever. Only two of the companies in the list sell software, the rest are entirely / almost entirely hardware vendors. People trust hardware because it does’nt do anything for them except for run software (in the case of computer hardware manufactures like dell, Ibm, sony, hp, gateway, etc).
LG, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Zenith, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba, Nintendo, Intel, etc do not belong in the same category as the computer manufacturer companies; it’s like saying “do you trust their stuff to work?” well if it doesnt, it is broken and TAKE IT BACK!
Theoretically Dell, HP, Toshiba, IBM, Gateway and Sony should all be distrusted with Microsoft, because they sell products that run Microsoft products.
Their chart also places Microsoft low on the “Brand Potential” chart? whatver, Microsoft is already number 1, 2, and 3, why do they need potential to get more. Apple has a 5% personal computer market share, and everything else is even less than that. If you don’t trust Microsoft so much, why don’t you use linux / BSD / Something else?
Apple is high in brand trust because they have good support, and medium in brand potential. If it weren’t for their Ipods, they would not even have all the exposure they have.
Overall, I just have to say that this “Survey” is a boatload of crap, even though it is being linked to by all the tech sites and taken like it even offers legit data on anything!
4 Responses to “apple(s) to oranges”
so, lots of people read this but no one wants to post a comment, but chris and I are having a good conversation.
“Oh, BTW, Apple is something like 70% of the portable mp3 player market.”
which means that Microsoft is the only true software vendor on the list
By justin March 31st, 2006 at 4:28 pm
“If it weren’t for their Ipods, they would not even have all the exposure they have.”
Yeaaah, BUT - you gotta admin, OS X was an amazing leap forward in interface design - and it was released months before the first iPod (which nobody said would sell!).
I’d like to believe (maybe this is ‘pie-in-the-sky’ here) that they still would have had as much acclaim as they do not, even if the iPod didn’t work out for them. Just for the fact that they came out with a not-bloated operating system like Windows, that is user friendly, packed with features, and doesn’t require update after service pack after update after service pack after update and the reboots in between and activating and genuine validation and THE LIST GOES ON…
… I’m buying my MacBook Pro this weekend by the way!
By John March 31st, 2006 at 10:51 pm
oh come on
OS X comes out with updates all the time
OSX is bloated, that GUI takes up ALOT of RAM, widgets are a complete waste of resources
and, Genuine validation exists because Microsoft is a software only company, and since it’s alot easier to steal software than it is to steal hardware, ( Apple sells hardware, i would say first and foremost)
And, XP is so awesome people want to steal it constantly!
MacBook Pro, turning a mac into a real computer one step at a time.
By justin April 1st, 2006 at 12:05 am
XP isn’t so awesome that people want to steal it. I only got it cause a game told me I needed it to play. So I sighed, and installed XP in order to play the game. I’d say the main reason people steal XP is more due to the price. When I was informed that RIT had legit versions for only like $5, I bought it.
Although I do have to say that XP totally sucked in the begining, now it (refering to XP pro) is a bit more mature and I do like it more than 2k (which I was using before).
So I’d says the more appropriate reason it’s stolen is because its 1) expensive and 2) needed in order to run the majority of software
By slate April 1st, 2006 at 12:18 pm