Tech Talk
“Companies or people that resort to ad hominem fallacies such as using the term “fanboy” deserve criticism. I am a technology fanatic so the term doesn’t offend me. What does offend me is the mediocre offerings from many consumer electronics companies who simultaneously deride market defining products.
Companies and people feel the need for abusive fallacies when the facts don’t support their conclusions. Unfortunately for the opposition, virtually all the evidence supports the logical conclusion that Apple is the premiere consumer electronics company today.
Apple has outstanding customer retention, 89% versus nearest competitor with 39% for smartphones.
Apple has the best customer service in every market in which they compete.
Apple has above average reliability with less than 2% return rate on products that are constantly derided by competitors while competitor products reported 16% return rates
Apple provides free or very inexpensive software upgrades regularly that enhance existing products significantly while competitors don’t offer upgrades or offer inconsistent but expensive upgrades.
Apple iPhone 4S is competitive performance-wise with competitor products that have 150% greater CPU clock speeds and 200% more RAM.
Apple products are highly secure as evidenced by only two significantly successful malware threats in the last ten years (MacDefender and Flashback).
Apple has the market leading ecosystem with:
28 million (mostly) DRM-free songs worldwide (many encoded as 256 kbit/s AAC)
1,000,000+ podcasts (USA)
40,000+ music videos (USA)
3,000+ TV shows (USA)
20,000+ audiobooks (USA)
2,500+ movies (USA)
725,700 App Store Apps with more than 25 billion downloads
Apple has more than 70% of the digital music downloads and nearly 70% of digital movie downloads, Apple iTunes is the premiere digital media store.
Apple iTunes in the Cloud provides free, unlimited perpetual storage and access on-demand to the entire catalog of purchased movies, music and TV shows.
Apple iCloud provides free mail, calendars and contacts.
Apple iCloud provides 5 GB free storage which enables bookmarks, calendars, contacts, data & document, email, notes, to-do lists synchronization across devices and platforms.
Considering that the preceding evidence supports the conclusion that Apple has the best consumer electronics products I am not ashamed of being labeled a “fanboy.” When competitors develop products that rival Apple’s I will enthusiastically support them as well.”
The person who wrote this response to an article I was reading did a great job in making a lot of great points & I respect his views and appreciate what he had to say. One of the best response’s i’ve heard to an article that is calling something or somebody out.
