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Buying Apple Today: Like Buying Microsoft in 1998?

What everyone else said.

What an Apple Tablet Has to Be

I've been a Mac-fan since day one and a Mac user almost as long, the only difference being that I needed income to buy a Mac. I hope Mac doesn't come out with a Tablet. It would be the first product introduced by Apple that would have me asking, "what did they do that for?". Can't see the point of a Tablet when there's already enough overlap between an iPhone and the smaller MacBooks. I hope that Apple is taking advantage of rumor mill distractions to do something exciting, like re-vamp MacTV to make it *really* useful, or introduce a pico-projector into iPhone (hopefully Microvision's, but as they still haven't introduced a stand-alone, I'll probably have to wait for that).

Five Great Quality Companies: Are They Too Expensive?

Bellehumeur got it half right - Apple designs for consumers, not engineers. But the here's the difference: Crocs was cool and no longer is cool - it's a fashion item, nothing more needs be said; consumers don't buy Apple because Apple products are cool, consumers buy Apple because Apple products are easy to use and go wrong less often than their competitors. Sure, Apple is cool, but that's beside the point.