Nothing like the strawman of Apple fanboys. Listen, with the retail stores Apple long ago left behind its dependence on the “cult” – if that ever really existed. I bought my Apple stock years ago when I overheard a girl and her mom talking about iPods in a little run-down Mac shop – the first sign that Apple was selling to people outside the so-called “cult”
No viruses, as easy to buy on-line as Amazon, the only decent retail shops for digital lifestyle products (compare BestBuy!), halo effects with their products in the music, phone, computer, gaming, and tablet spaces.
The nice products are only part of it. Apple has systematically figured out the ways they were blocked in the past and eliminated those as factors. Microsoft used the corporate market to kill Apple, but that market is no longer significant compared to the consumer market.
Articles like this are just silly. Is Apple going to hit a home run with every product? No. Has Apple been on an incredible run? Yes. Will they be able to sustain this for a while? All indicators say yes. Their opposition is in complete disarray. Android exists almost solely because of Verizon giving away devices because they don’t have the iPhone.
Talk about cults – see the average Linux / Android user – if you can get close enough in spite of the do-it-yourself smell.
