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Apple's Leap from Mediocre to Marvelous

oh yeah, apple as macmatthews said is not Selling you a bag of shells and promises we leave that up to Vista. my original mac from 1992 still runs.(I own 6 )

Apple's Leap from Mediocre to Marvelous

Marketing and branding is all about creating tribes. when you buy a brand you join the tribe, you feel the cool when you see a fellow BMW driver or a nike wearer, Watches got ridiculously big so you could be sure your Michelle or Charioll would be noticed on your wrist. making the pod phones white was the marketing genus move instead of blending it into your hair it broadcast your tribal affiliation. Every time a pod owner sees white earphones he knows that person is having the same sort of great user experience and is warmed by the wisdom of their purchase. the next important thing in marketing Pride in ownership now get out of that pc tribe your obviously not proud to belong and come and play with the cool Kids. spring for 50 dollars and buy yourself a shuffle you will feel better for it.

Apple Seeking a Reunion With Adobe?

I use adobe products and apple products day in and day out and although they exist in the same realm like thoughts and feelings they are two different animals. Apple has always been a software company that has not realized it, if they want tons more cash all they have to do is sell the OS to run on windows intel boxes.As an adobe user the recent "upgrade" into the macromedia product line has left me with a steep and unprofitable learning curve I for one was hoping the macromedia code superiority would be integrated into a well designed adobe interface (hardly a "dinosaur" ) there is much more work to be done integrating those two software packages. Apple, although cross platform on some applications lately, does not like to play well with windows (for good reasons). I think it unlikely that they would want to acquire Adobe. Having said that, the thought of Steve Blamer getting this bee in his bonnet would be unthinkable… Microsoft Creative Suite! a perfect oxymoron!