If they were just making iMacs, iPods and iPads, they wouldn't have these problems. They don't know how to make a phone. Microsoft had a similar problem. They knew WindowsWindowsWindows so they thought they could make a phone with Windows on it. It just doesn't work.
The problem with Steve Jobs is that he is a narcissist.
The problem with what you're suggesting is that Apple's extraordinary sales records and customer satisfaction of their phones suggest otherwise. Especially in terms of the percent of the market that they control and sell phones in, they..I'll put it nicely..steamroll the competition. People wouldn't be buying the iphone if it wasn't a good product, and it has nothing to do with fanboyism. Because many many iphone users have never owned a ipod, ipad, or macbook, or mac, or anything else that Apple makes
other than the iphone.
I can use myself as an example. I'm an iphone 4 user, I've never had a mac or macbook (and never will get one, PC all the way), nor will I ever get an ipod (i dont listen to music) or an ipad (useless device imo). If I had
any problem with my iphone 4, I would return it in a heartbeat. If I had
any problem with my service, I'd change carriers just as quickly. I am not brand loyal and will go with whatever works, regardless of who makes it. For me, the Iphone works great and always has, and I prefer it over anything else in the market right now. But perhaps down the road something else will appeal to me, who knows. But to suggest that Apple doesn't know how to make phones is simply incorrect.
A thought on Steve Jobs....:
I don't understand what all the fuss is about Steve Jobs. Ya he's a narcissistic jerk, but if the product is good, then what does it matter?
Because I also eat at McDonalds, I fly Delta Airlines, I drive a Mazda, I use Tylenol, and I have a Nintendo. What if the CEO's of McDonalds, Delta, Mazda, Tylenol and Nintendo were narcissistic jerks, should that prevent me from using those products? Who's to say that those CEOs'
aren't narcissistic jerks? Out of the thousands and thousands of different name-brand products that we buy, I assure you, some of them are led by narcissistic jerks, but we don't seem to care about that.
Does anyone here thoroughly research who the CEO of everything they buy, on the account that if the CEO is controlling narcissistic jerk then they won't buy it? That certainly sounds silly, because odds are pretty good that
no one here does that. Except when it comes to Apple and it's CEO.
There is definitely a double standard, when there shouldn't be.
That's all.