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   "warble606@yahoo.com"  wrote in post   
   1107432693.096569.96090@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com on 2/3/05 5:11 AM:   
      
   > Derek Currie wrote:   
   >   
   >> ' Apple, whose iPod has replaced Sony's Walkman as the personal media   
   >>   
   >> player to be seen with, topped both the global and North American rankings   
   in   
   >> the poll, displacing Google despite the splash caused by the search engine's   
   >> $1.7 billion auction-style initial public offering last year.   
   >   
   > Who cares? Just because a product brand has become familiar   
   > to people doesn't mean it's a good product or a good   
   > company.   
      
   No.  It does not.  Nor does it mean that it is not a good product or   
   company.   
      
   What is amazing about this, if you bother to think about it, is that a   
   computer company with a small - and at least until recently - shrinking   
   market share is known so well.   
      
   Apple does simply amazing work.  It is unheard of in the computer industry   
   for a company with such small market share to now only be known so well but   
   to have such an influence on the entire market.   
      
   Look at the debates in CSMA about who copies who.  Sure, Apple does copy   
   ideas from Windows and from the PC industry... but just as much, and very   
   likely a lot more, MS and the PC makers copy Apple.  Think about this -   
   Apple, with its small share, is the company so many others want to be like.   
      
   This is good news for Apple - no matter how you want to spin it.   
      
   > I mean, look at Coca-Cola, which has assassinated union leaders in Columbia.   
   > What a brand! Damn evil company. Or look at some of these fast-food companies   
   > like Dunkin Donuts which put addictive chemicals in their junkfood to induce   
   > you to come back. You'll never forget their brands, you even see them when   
   you   
   > drive down a street and there's their logo, and meanwhile they believe they   
   > need to harm your health in order to maximize profits. Or how about, looking   
   > at the marketplace of political ideologies, fascism has amazing brand   
   > recognition, heck you could call it a veritable eternal flame of brand   
   > awareness. Does that make fascism good, according to you?   
      
   Your rant is based on your straw man that anyone suggested that being well   
   known is the same as being good.  Do you see that now?   
      
      
      
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