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Re:Google Designing 'X Phone' to Rival Apple, Samsung by cwilson on Friday December 21, 2012 @05:21PM (#4954824)
While I don't disagree with the "Quality product + good price + industry head start + robust and lucrative developer platform = dominant market position" line, I do think you should add "amazing marketing" to it.

If Apple's marketing were not key to its business why would they have spent over $1 billion on iPhone and iPad marketing since launching the devices (Google it)? Have you spoken with a teenager lately? Every single one of my younger siblings (1 in middle school, 2 in highschool) have an iPhone. They have an iPhone because their friends all have iPhones, because it's cool to have iPhones. They don't care about anything else.

So again, while your points are solid, discounting marketing all-together is very silly.

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Re:Google Designing 'X Phone' to Rival Apple, Samsung by vvhn on Friday December 21, 2012 @07:33PM (#4955282)
>If Apple's marketing were not key to its business why would they have spent over $1 billion on iPhone and iPad marketing since launching the devices (Google it)?

HP and Microsoft outspend Apple in Advertising every year. They should be doing much better than Apple if that is really the "key".

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Re:Google Designing 'X Phone' to Rival Apple, Samsung by czhiddy on Friday December 21, 2012 @06:23PM (#4955059)
http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/375...

Apple's marketing budget relative to its size is quite tiny.

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Re:Google Designing 'X Phone' to Rival Apple, Samsung by CountSessine on Friday December 21, 2012 @07:42PM (#4955301)
If Apple's marketing were not key to its business why would they have spent over $1 billion on iPhone and iPad marketing since launching the devices (Google it)?

Is this remarkable to you because it seems like a big number? Or is it because this is actually a lot less than what their competitors spend? Samsung alone spent a lot more than Apple did last year on marketing and advertising. What do you think of that?

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