Comments on: Apple and Intel Think Differently http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081016/apple-and-intel-think-differently/ from other Web sites Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sam Harrison http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081016/apple-and-intel-think-differently/comment-page-1/#comment-767 Sam Harrison Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:08:00 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=5027#comment-767 history shows that people may spend less *overall* during recession but that they may focus their cash on what they do buy to *affordable luxury* items so both intel and apple are correct intel sees the decrease in commodity buys for its commodity chips while apple sees an increase in iphone,ipod,macbook as consumers still want to have perceived quality items but at lower prices...hence the debut of the lower priced macbook the other day apple and intel don't think differently, they are seeing consumers do what consumers do in cost cutting times: avoid commodities and buy affordable chic history shows that people may spend less *overall* during recession but that they may focus their cash on what they do buy to *affordable luxury* items

so both intel and apple are correct

intel sees the decrease in commodity buys for its commodity chips

while apple sees an increase in iphone,ipod,macbook as consumers still want to have perceived quality items but at lower prices…hence the debut of the lower priced macbook the other day

apple and intel don’t think differently, they are seeing consumers do what consumers do in cost cutting times: avoid commodities and buy affordable chic

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