DISQUS

Apple got the prime spot in the front of the Consumer Electronics Area in both ipods and iPhones. As you enter the area you then see the other phones and the other mp3 players which makes Apple stand out (as in the Apple products are special and not run of the mill like all the others). BestBuy does the same thing with Apple getting prime spot in phones and a special set off area for computers.

Another note, at Walmart and Bestbuy the iphones are working units. Rimm has no working units. If you want to see a storm in action you have to go to Circuit City which does not have macs or iphones. Seems odd to me that no one else gives a full phone demo.

That is why Apple is far ahead of Sony, Dell and other consumer electronics companies. A mac is more than a computer since it becomes a home media server when coupled with the airport extreme and an apple tv. The iPhone is way more than a phone when linked to mobile me and itunes.

The other nice thing is that since Apple builds all the hardware and creates all the software everything works together nicely. If you buy a dell pc how do you hook it to your tv. If you have a sony ericsson phone it does not do anything with your sony tv. Since none of the other companies stuff works together there is no customer loyalty issue. With apple, you get one product and then another and another. With the other stuff you keep buying stuff from other companies and you end up with stuff that does not work together at all.

Our house 1 Macpro, 4 imacs, 2 macbooks, 4 apple tv, 1 airport extreme, 2 wireless airport boxes, 4 apple hifi speakers, 2 iphones original, and 8 ipods including the original 5gb white ipod bought on the first day sold. Still used as a firewire harddrive (battery was replaced in 2005).

My work is also all mac. The only way to go and I can be the IT guy without having to hire an IT guy for networking, virus protection, etc. etc..