Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ...
by btown on Thursday September 27, 2018 @08:47PM
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People responding in this thread are failing to realize that there are two types of luxury goods (to obviously oversimplify): luxuries built on hype, and luxuries built on quality/craftsmanship. (Said craftsmanship can be innovative or traditional, but there's the sense of pride in the work that carries through in both situations.) One (though not all) of the nuances that the parent post evokes is that Jobs challenged the company to be more than just a hype machine.
Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ...
by jonathankoren on Friday September 28, 2018 @02:38AM
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I've heard the difference is between luxury goods, and premium goods. A luxury good is a swarovski crystal encrusted anything. It's only expensive because for some reason, people think glass should be expensive. A premium good costs more because it's actually better.
Of course, if you never use premium features, then it's a luxury good.
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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ...
by stcredzero on Thursday September 27, 2018 @06:56PM
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Apple produces better products than google and microsoft, get over it.
It sounds like you're the one who needs to get over something.
For the record, I've been an iPhone user since the 2nd iPhone. I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro, and I bought the 1st unibody Macbook. I've developed iPhone apps and I've been an Apple user since 1980.
Yes, Apple produces better products for now. However, as the years pass, those products might remain recognizably luxury, but become increasingly irrelevant, like a watch fob. Apple now is to Apple in the several years before Steve Jobs died as Pixar now is to Pixar in the days when they came out with Toy Story and Up.
The market decided. Here's the thing. It never stops deciding.
Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ...
by threeseed on Thursday September 27, 2018 @07:01PM
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So Apple products are purely luxury goods and serve no utility. I think that's more than a little ridiculous.
Steve Jobs pretty much set Apple on the premium goods track when he returned
You are revising what I actually said, and about that you are completely wrong. I never denied that Jobs set Apple on the premium goods track. However, he was one of the major forces keeping it from devolving into being only a peddler of luxury goods.
Tech innovation does better with good margins, and good margins come easier for more upscale products. But doing that is better as an adjunct which increases your margins, and winds up empty as an end to itself.