If you doubted the ubiquity of Apple products, dig this: According to CNBC, over 50 percent of U.S. households now include at least one Apple product, whether it's an iPhone, an iPad or an Apple II.
Jay Campbell, one of the people who conducted the study that found this out, explains the dominance of Apple like this:
“It's a fantastic business model — the more of our products you own, the more likely you are to buy more...Planned obsolescence has always been a part of the technology industries sales model, but Apple has taken it to a whole new level."
Over the last few years, I've noticed my own gradual slide from PC-based home electronics to Apple based. It started with my iPod. Then my wife bought a Mac desktop. Then I got an iPhone. Then I replaced my laptop with an iPad 2. Everything works so well together that I'm thinking of picking up an Apple TV when they come out, oh, and an Apple computer. And a Macbook Air. It's like Invasion of Body Snatchers or something! I'm a pod-person!
No, but seriously, Apple makes really good products.
Source: CNBC
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jjfan1
I'm not a fan of mac.but I do own a second generation touch for the car and a old school 1gig shuffle for working out. Do not want an ipad. While its cool its a little too bulky and heavy. Need to be a bit more lighter and slimmer.
littlek
I don't buy apple products because they may not get viruses as much as a PC but they are constantly updated yearly. So whats the point of getting iPad 3 when iPad 4 is coming Q1 2013 lol
BizarroKira
well, I do have ipods...I'm honestly not too fond of them though so when they break (which will be soon since they don't even last long) I will be moving on to new endeavors. I have a Galaxy tab and a PC, Both affordable and they get the job done. I don't even know that many people with Macs....I mean I'm not saying they're bad, they are overpriced and too I dunno....Hipstery for my tastes. I don't plan on buying them(mainly because I hate their fandom).
TheBRADLeyB
Is it a typo or did the guy not include iPods as Apple Products?
Anyway it's a great thing that all Apple products work together. That's why I would almost consider buying a Mac if I had an iPhone or an iPod. I would love to get a Mac and have an iPhone and have iTunes.
Problem is Apple is kind of the epitome of a horrible dictatorship country. Not only do they do things to harm their customers (like making the iPhone exclusive to AT&T for the first 3 generations forcing them to have the horrible horrible service of AT&T) but they also like to decide what is appropriate for their customers to see. Remember when they deleted all those apps because they were too 'risque'? (Like the Suicide Girls app that showed no nudity but had pin up girls on it?).
Then there's that thing that they do were they ban Apps that allow you to do things you should be allowed to do from the start so that they can release it a year later and claim it's their new feature that you all need. Example? There was an App that allowed you to take pictures using some button on the side and Apple made up a flimsy excuse, killed the App and then introduced it on the iPhone 4 or 4Gs.
Or even Suri that they said wouldn't work on the iPhone 4G so you had to update it to the 4Gs. Only problem is a bunch of guys proved the Suri worked on a jail broken iPhone 4G.
So those things kind of annoy me. All the Mac Fanboys I know like to think that they are hip, elite and rebellious because they have all Apple products. I just find it odd they (the ones I know) are always protesting and saying the government is too big brother and they protest regimes like Syria when they support a company that embodies that regime. Just on a digital level.
But I do like Apple products. They are very fun and useful. In fact I'd say about 80 percent of the apps on the Droid Market (I'm sorry, 'Google Play') were on the App Store 6-18 months before they hit the Android Market.
There's a lot of reasons to get the iPhone. And if you get the iPhone you might as well go all Apple because they are all set to work seemlessly together. Especially now that the iCloud gives you your iTunes purchases on all your products.
My problem with the iPhone is that I I absolutely can not stand having 1 button to everything for me. Also there's no personalization like there is on Droid Phones. I don't want to have all my Apps lined up in order. I want to place them where I want to put them on the screen.
If it wasn't for the iPhone and me not getting along I'm sure I'd be a complete Macbot and have an iPad, iPhone, Mac computer and maybe even Steve Job's turtle neck.
Till then I'm staying on the Droid Phones. Although let's face it, Google isn't making that easy for me either these days.
DPsx72
None of their crap in THIS residence. Never will be either. I rather buy superior products that cost less.
Sh?dow
Well the reson why there an't a whole lot of apple computers in all the American home's is because they cost way,WAY too much. IF they didn't cost way to much all the time. Then us Americans can buy these apple computer...just like we buy our normal pc's.
geomancer21
And yet, no major retailer carries a mac. Wal-mart only got the Ipad cause Target got it.
Giga
I love apple. I worked IT for years. At the end of the day I love coming home and my stuff all just works. I have the Apple TV (the little box not a TV made by apple) my computer, iphone, ipad all linked. Add in all the other goodies that work with and are made for apple. To control the temp in my home, remote control cars an helicopters and the list goes on. Sure it may look like skynet in my home some times but I never have an issue with any of it not working.
The tech isn't always bleeding edge but at the end of the day I get practical use out of it. The Apple products make me think of the old 50's adds about the future and how everything in our homes will be integrated. Android products are bleeding edge in many ways but they fail to integrate multiple products with ease. Microsoft products are striving for easy integration with bleeding edge tech. Sadly they are too far behind in 3rd party support and customer awareness to make any real headway.
lucidity
But wait, DPsx72 said apple is a fail.
Proven wrong again.
vaajtswv
I still have no Apple products in the house, save for a first generation iPhone the sister gave me. Which is being used as a notepad and paperweight since I bought my Galaxy. I'm not a pc person, just a diehard non Apple fan.
koolboricua
Wow. That's an improvement from 25% years ago. The only issue, is where is growing is not where it should be. Their number are been generated more buy the purchase of an Iphone than most other products. The Mac desktops are still under 19% of households. Yes, I can see how they mean once you buy a product you will keep buying more. But must people are either buying the same product upgrade or just another of the same for a partner.
Aaron82
resist!
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