Originally Posted by Brian Fantana:
“Of the few bits I gathered from that -
Don't most companies update their products on a yearly basis? Laptops are forever being updated, as our PC's, TV's, games consoles, games themselves. The FIFA franchise brings out a new game every year, when the current one is always good enough.
And you've still not really answered my question, i'm well aware that i'll be paying Apple money for their products, i'm aware that in the grand scheme of things their products are overpriced, but I choose to pay for them. So I don't really see how that's blind, stupid perhaps, but not blind...
I shouldn't have really replied, this strikes me as a very poor attempt at trolling. The poor grammar and punctuation give the game away.”
Yup. Apple is far from the only company to release a new version each year. Look at Samsung and the Galaxy S, for example. Some other companies even release new versions more than once per year. Is someone who bought a Galaxy S then an S II, and next plans to buy an S III, some sort of "Samsung Sheep"? Are people who only buy Android devices "Android Sheep"? It's funny. It seems on DS it's only ever the Apple customers who get insulted and called "sheep" etc., and it's only ever the Apple customers who get accused of blindly falling for marketing. Why don't people see that we buy products because we want to and because they do what we want/need them to do.
As for pricing... I wouldn't even say that the iPad is overpriced. I think it's probably the only Apple product that isn't. If it is overpriced, then surely so are all the other high-end tablets which all launched at exactly the same price point. Although some like the Xoom, PlayBook, and TouchPad have since had massive price cuts due to failing miserably, I believe the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the new Sony tablet still have the same RRP as the iPad 2 (e.g. £479 32GB WiFi only, £559 64GB WIFi only, add £100 for 3G). EDIT: Actually, a quick check has found that Sony has cut the price of the Tablet S, which can now be found for £429 instead of £479. I guess that hasn't been doing great either then if Sony's had to knock a bit off, although I doubt it's done as badly as the Xoom or PlayBook.