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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Has Apple's software quality declined?
Date: 23 Dec 2014 14:39:18 GMT
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On 2014-12-23, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 14-12-22 23:46, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> Fail. The entire point of this thread and the article quoted is that
>> there is an decrease in quality. 
>
> No, the entire point is *perceived* decrease in quality which may lower
> Apple sales in future. And perceptions are driven and amplified by how
> the media portrays the issue.
>
> Go back to the MAC vs PC ads. Why were they succesfull ? because the
> media had harped on poor Windows quality, number of viruses etc, so
> Apple could hit on that raw nerve.
>
> Reverse the situation where the media talk about the software problems
> for IOS and OS-X, and Apple starts to have much poorer image.
>
> And in marketing, especially of premium products, image is everything.

Marketing ain't everything. For a whole lot of us, actual results
matter. : )

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