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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
What apple has goes far beyond your typical brand loyalty
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No. There are several agencies that track customer loyalty of top brands, and although Apple sits at or near the top (depending on when the survey is done and if it's overall or broken down into specific product groups), they are not actually that far ahead of other brands. Where Apple might sit at 95%, the next 4 companies will still all be above 90%.
That does not qualify as "far beyond".
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Originally Posted by StylinRed
yes i guess the millions of the same people who camp out every 6 months or whenever apple comes out with a "new" product are just "regular customers"
apples success is based on a foundation of fanboys/sheep whose joy/addiction/what have you acts as a domino effect onto actual regular customers who buy into the hype/belief of the rabid fans and that perpetuates/rockets/domino-effects/etc sales
regular customers dont upgrade/purchase every few months fans do
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How did you arrive at "millions"? Based on reported line-ups at various stores and the number of Apple stores, your figures are way too high.
But let's say your over-inflated numbers were correct and several million actually camped out. And we'll assume none of them were resellers, were hired by promoters or were there to get publicity - they were all customers. Apple has several
hundred million customers. So your number still represents maybe 1-2% of Apple's customer base. So you're going to take the actions of 1-2% of the fanatics and apply it to the other 98-99%?
Where did you get the idea Apple fans upgrade every few months? How is that even possible with iPhones coming out once per year? Are you sure you're not talking about Android?
DanHibiki and Ronin are correct. The real losers (obsessive fans) are the Android users. You can use RS to test this theory yourself. Go into the Google Nexus 4 thread and count the total number of anti-Android or troll comments. Do the same in the Galaxy S3 thread. Then go into the iPhone 5 or iPad Mini thread and count the anti-Apple comments.
Then you can answer me this simple question: How come the Android related threads on RS are pretty much troll-free without any trace of Apple "fanboys" spouting useless shit like "Android sucks" while at the same time there are numerous such posts in all the iPhone/iPad threads?
It's such a simple question, so it should be easy for you to provide an answer.