All I’m pointing out about this article is that, very few people actually go online reading news about Apple or their products. And most of those that do love or hate Apple, and they are very few. They are not the majority.

Like someone was asking why Apple is not giving coupons for people to upgrade to Leopard, thinking that it might affect their Mac sales. It probably will, but it will not be much, because most of those buying have no clue there is a new OS around the corner. They buy because they like what they see and they have the money.

I am a PC guy and I bought my wife a MacBook because of how simple it made her life, she even recommended it to her friend who bought a MacBook when her Windows Notebook died.

(This comment written from my Mac)

1. Lowered the iPhone price by $200
People lined up for days to pay $600 for the iPhone, they accepted that it’s worth the price and later they get $100 back. How many of these people do you think are actually crying and angry?

2. Updated firmware
Apple released a new firmware, and warned people people not to update if they have hacked it.
So Apple did not brick jack, stupid people used hack and went ahead to update. It’s like hacking Photoshop to do other stuffs and then updating it from Adobe, you’ll be stupid not to know that it will probably break your hacks and maybe screw up your Photoshop.

3. Wiped out 3rd party Apps
No Apple did not, the fool you updated did.

Most of the people buying iPods, iPhones and Macs never get to read news like this. So as long as about has the most beautiful products out there, with easy names to remember not like Nokia n595959
Dell inspiron 38899, HP ze9485. They first need to learn how to name products before competing against Apple.

Just thought I’d point out something of interest:
Sitepoint has a thread on now with people discussing the issue. http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=506015

Double w00t.

Or you can say that one grows enough for people to finally realize all of your shortcomings.
Apple has surely become king in portable digital music, and now they have taken a decent step into the cell phone world.

As far as their computers and their computer services are concerned, IMO they have always be sub-par but simply never saturated the market enough for anyone to take much notice. An Apple runs no better than a PC IMO, and their customer services are FAR worse.

Apple loves to brag and brag about how much better their computer products are, or at the very least their OS and services since they now essentially use “PC” hardware, even though they still lock you into a system with little ability to upgrade.
The thing most don’t realize is that Apple is about what 8% of the computer market? Maybe that has gone up a little since the last I checked, but it is a very small portion of the computer world….it just so happens than Apple fanatics happen to leave a Big Footprint.

I don’t want to cut Apple all the way down, because they do make some decent computer products. Unfortunately I feel they are one of the most over-hyped computer products on the market, and I hope people don’t go out and buy their computers simply because they love the iPod or iPhone, for I feel that is a horrible mistake.

Some of the loss in reputation are mistakes on Apple’s part, but some is simply them expanding beyond the die hard fanatics who think Apple can do no wrong.

Grow more and you’re sure to attract a few people who aren’t thrilled with you.

Looks like it will be available end of Q1 next year. Is that right ?