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| Re: Thoughts on Logic Studio 8 pricing [message #90007 is a reply to message #89998] |
Wed, 19 September 2007 17:22   |
chuck duffy
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Registered: July 2005
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James.
MS simply can't compete in the consumer product arena. This has been proven
again and again. Apple has mindshare, MS is a corporate borg.
1. Zune. A 20% price cut on a product nobody wants is meaningless.
2. MS has been trying to break into the phone arena for 5 years. Apple sells
a million out of the gate. A million units, total control, insanely high
margin, high cool factor, profit on both hardware, software, and through
licensing with AT&T A CUT OF THE CALLS!!!!!.
3. Apple INVENTED the PDA, then walked away. Why? Jobs wasn't around. IMHO,
everything that came after the Newton is, well, an afterthought.
In my opinion microsoft absorbs stuff, and produces a usable product, but
there is absolutely nothing cool about their stuff.
Chuck
"James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>Apple's move on the pricing of Logic, is either that they are just being
aggressive
>and are looking to grab market share, or they know something is about to
>happen in the industry. Maybe Microsoft is about to buy a audio software
>company. The day Apple was going to announce new iPods, MS announced a
20%
>price drop on the Zune to trump Apple's announcements. Bill Gates leaked
>that they are looking to come in to the iPhone market. I think Apple responded
>by dropping iPod prices, and drastically dropping the price of the iPhone.
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>For the loyal Logic users, I think Apple did the right thing by dropping
>the upgrade prices. For the money, I can't see anything else that is as
>full featured as Logic Studio 8. It's going to be hard to compete with
that
>kind of pricing and that kind of package. It's slick and it looks easy
to
>use. It's like a full production studio in one box. This is really going
>to shake up the market. I'm wondering what MOTU is going to do. Obviously
>by Morgan's pricing on Cubase, Steinberg has taken notice and a step back.
> I wonder who else will get their pricing in line.
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>Do you think MS could get away with buying Digidesign? They already own
>a chunk. I guess will know by the end of AES.
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>I hope Apple drops the price of FCP next. What ever the reason was for
the
>Logic price drop, it was a vary smart move. I think we'll all benefit from
>it. Thank you Apple!
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| Re: Thoughts on Logic Studio 8 pricing [message #90017 is a reply to message #90007] |
Wed, 19 September 2007 21:26 |
Paul Braun
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On 20 Sep 2007 10:22:04 +1000, "chuck duffy" <c@c.com> wrote:
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>3. Apple INVENTED the PDA, then walked away. Why? Jobs wasn't around. IMHO,
>everything that came after the Newton is, well, an afterthought.
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And I still have 3 Newtons - an MP100, an MP2000 and a MP2100.
Although I haven't really used the 2100 much in the past year, so I'm
going to offload the data and address book, and probably put 'em up on
the 'bay.
However, you are correct. They invented the damn thing, then killed
it. Palm would not exist if it weren't for the Newton and their
Graffiti package.
pab
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| Re: Thoughts on Logic Studio 8 pricing [message #90036 is a reply to message #90029] |
Thu, 20 September 2007 08:17 |
Jamie K
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Registered: July 2006
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I still use a Psion 5MX. Amazing little computer. Word processing,
spreadsheet, audio idea recorder, calendar, contacts, email, compact
flash memory, fold-out touch-typeable keyboard, touch screen.
No mp3 player, no camera, no color. Batteries last forever.
Long discontinued.
Cheers,
-Jamie
www.JamieKrutz.com
Mike R. wrote:
>> 3. Apple INVENTED the PDA, then walked away. Why? Jobs wasn't around.
> IMHO,
>> everything that came after the Newton is, well, an afterthought.
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> Hey now, Psion Revo was wicked ;-))
> MR
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