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There are lots of ongoing rumours that Apple will offer apps and the appstore on the Apple TV. Something that will effectively turn it into a very low cost gaming device
:LOL: Can't tell if serious or...but just in case, the price of a game does not decide if someone is or isn't a gamer. That's just stupid.
Ohh I'm serious !!!
What I want to say is that most of these people are fine with paying a few bucks for games but most of them will not buy a dedicated console for games.
How many parents play on Iphones,... and how many would upgrade to a dedicated games consoles?
Very few... some will be converted (which is good), but most have their gaming need satisfied by these 1 dollar games.
i won't argue over the term of gamer, they all are gamers, but how involved they are in this activity is an other thing
I know right, like the PC Market, there was never any competition in that.
Oh and Smartphones, cause I forgot that Windows, Palm, Blackberry, etc didn't compete with each other in the segment years before Apple came about. How silly of me.
And of course no other company makes professional productivity applications, we'll just forgot Adobe exists and FCP was created first and invented the market.
Well they started as a PC company (but the PC was not mainstream than, IBM was to expensive and complicated for the private customer, IBM concentrated on the industry) and had first succes with the personal computer till Ibm fully entered the personal computer market, than massive fail till Jobs got back. The first Imacs weren't blockbusters too (Top of the line were used mostly by professionals, end of line didn't sell very well for private use). after they had their large user base (due to Ipod Iphone) their PC market shifted to the better.
As for the Ipod, Iphone and Ipad, they basiclly entered a market that was none existant. How many people bought a PDA for private use (exclude the nerds) or a fat Tablet??
They didn't enter the cell phone market, they created a new market: the smartphones (and a PDA at that time was more for professionals than private customers and too complicated for the average Joe, and does not qualify for a smartphone)
They developped products that actually worked and were simple enough so the average Joe wouldn't be shocked by the product.
Yes smartphones(PDA's) and pads existed before (as did the mouse, the graphical user interface,....) but they made it accessible (technology wise) for the average Joe.
For me Apple and especially Jobs are / were genius marketing people and only after that comes the technology.
And I don't like Apple, but I credit them for making excellent marketing and actually mainsteaming technology (making them simpler quites annoys me though).
In the late 90's, walking around with a PDA earned you strange looks from people, now it's a common practice.
So to summarize it : Apple didn't invented any of the products that made tham soo popular, they just simplified, maintreamed and marketeerd them to hell.
Should I go on?
