How in the world does VFM mean cheap? Value for money means basically getting the best benefit out of your investment.
Yeah, that’s what it’s supposed to mean, of course. But as you could clearly see in the statement I quoted back there, the poster had only two parameters for judging anything—number of features and price. He said that anything that offers the maximum number of features at “no price” is VFM.
And that’s the general sentiment shared by 90% of Indian citizens, even though they may deny it on the face of it. Quality is never paid heed to and if some company charges more for a product of clearly superior quality, it’s termed as not being VFM.
I’m not just talking about Apple here either. It’s prevalent across all industries and brands in the Indian market.
As for praka, who said I should shift to Cupertino, let me tell you that I have no intention to, even though I admire a lot of things about the U.S.A.. I would much rather stay in my country and live with its flaws than run away to another one that has a different set of qualities which might be more to my liking. However, there is no shame in admitting our flaws and I don’t mind voicing out my opinion, against India and Indians, when I feel the need to.
- His statement is just being interpreted differently by us.
- That is exactly what I told in my first post about iPhone being very secure as it is highly closed and preshit argued it. Apple themself have said this third party app restriction is to avoid malware.
- Though I'm not at all even remotely fond of Microsoft, there is one thing which they got right and Apple has always been missing. It is the famous monkey dance performed by Ballmer. For any platform's success third party developers are critical. Once the initial hype behind iPhone dies out, it will be still an artist and style icons' phone. When mobiles become our primary computing device in future the value offered to developers by the platform will raise again.
Trust me, chandru, you have very little idea about the Apple culture. This WWDC is the first one ever to be completely houseful. I think that’s a pretty good indication of how developers feel about the company and its OS X platform. Tomorrow, you’ll see iPhone applications and games that will blow you away and, secretly, you’ll be marveling at the capabilities of the platform. Publicly, however, you’ll still try to demean the company and its inherently closed nature, as if there is anything wrong with it.
The company chose to follow a policy, a closed one, and it’s clearly working—it’s gaining reputation and market share by leaps and bounds, has the most loyal customers across all industries and brands, gets front page press coverage when they mow their backyard and is earning dough by the truckloads. They top every customer satisfaction survey by huge margins. Clearly, it’s working.
So, why fix it if it ain’t broke?
Isnt Apple a reputed brand ?
