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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
edit: Also you're kind of creating a position for me then attacking it which isn't quite fair. I'm not saying the ONLY reason buy iPhones is for a fashion statement.
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You said "People have it" and "That's all apple has left".. If that's all Apple has left, then that means that's the only reason (since there's no other reason).
If you meant some people, what's the point of the post then? Picking some random subset of a group of people and then harping on them because of the thing you used to define the subset in the first place??
You know what's wrong with people who wear hats? Hats...
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Originally Posted by Brannigans Law
I'm saying that's a huge chunk of their market.
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You're speculating that is true. Given the number of old people, children, and weirdos I see with iPhones I really REALLY don't see it.
But if you have some kind of support for your generalizations then you might have a point.
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Apples biggest selling point they have left, which I did say, is they've created a strong and loyal base who don't really care what the competition is doing. They like their iPhones and if it's the best phone or not is not a concern of theirs.
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No, you said all they have left is hype and a name brand people will sleep out overnight in line for. They obviously have more than that, they have an actual phone that does cool stuff that the customers want it to do.
(And people sleep in line overnight for all kinds of things, they're doing it to be first, not to get the product in general.. if everyone had to sleep overnight in line to get an iPhone, sales would drop 99.9%.)
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People who go iPhone to android then back to iPhone are a minoriy
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Evidence? EDIT: This would also go against your point that loyalty is all they have, you are arguing here that there isn't loyalty.
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and I'm sure you have logical reasons to do so (maybe I dont want to assume)
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You seem ok to assume for most everyone else though...
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you also don't represent the majority.
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Evidence?
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No where in my post did I say I can apply my one anectode to everyone, so again, you're debating an argument and a position I haven't taken.
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But that's what your post does.. you clearly aren't addressing any individual in the thread because your post is about Apple users in general. It's about either all Apple users or near enough to all of them as makes no difference, otherwise if your post is about the 5% of Apple users that fit your criteria your post makes no sense at all (since it's a rant against Apple consumers).
You confirm this by saying it's about the majority of Apple users. If we asked all the iPhone users on this forum most of them got iPhones for fashion and blind brand loyalty?
If your point is "The problem with people who buy Apple products as a fashion statement is that they buy products as a fashion statement", then.. well done? The problem with people who have mustaches is their mustaches...