Over-expectation on Apple?

Here we go! Let’s talk about Apple again, the super successful “Marketing Company” in high-tech industry. Yesterday (Oct 23rd, 2012), the topical company Apple released their new retina iPad, iPad mini, new iMac and 13′ retina Macbook Pro. They upgraded almost everything right after the heat of iPhone 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0UlqpfuQc

Apple – Introducing iPad mini

After viewing the intro video and keynote of those new products, I don’t find that they are really attractive to me and there are so many apple fans having the same feeling. However, Apple did put efforts to perfect their products. As the senior vice president mentioned in the video,  the new products have retina display that will provide users a greater experience. For the new iPad mini, it will be a very powerful, capable and simple to use product that is small enough to fit in one hand. The other main features of it are including faster processing, longer battery life and HD facetime. See, actually they make a lot of changes on the new product. But why there are so many people as me that we are not excited about it? My explanation for this phenomena is people have sky high expectations on Apple’s products before their releases. As this incredible company can always unexpectedly surprise their customers and satisfy their needs by the new cool inventions, gradually, people tend to expect too much on them.

Picture from: www.apple.com

It is the fact that a company have to keep and even lift the innovations of the products to meet the increasingly high customer’s expectation. Is is not limited to the design of the product but also the price and the length of its replacement period. As we can see, the upgrade of Apple’s products are quite frequent, therefore, a large number of potential customers may choose to wait till the next big thing comes out, which they believe will be closer to their expectations.

Let’s see if the iPad mini will hit the market.

 

Apple’s iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S3, What’s Your Choice?

Click in and watch the Video: The Next Big Thing is Already Here — Samsung Galaxy S III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5-Prx19ZM&feature=youtu.be

Picture From: http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/iphone-5-vs-samsung-galaxy-s3

This interesting video from Samsung Mobile USA well reveals the direct and intense competition between Samsung Galaxy S3 and Apple’s iPhone 5. As we know, Samsung Galaxy S3 is an innovated and revolutionary mobile product that also attracted a large number of people, which we could say it would be the only major threat to Apple’s iPhone 5. During the gap between iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, people got introduced to the Samsung Galaxy S3 by all kinds of mediums from May 2012. Since there was no exciting product to stimulate the public’s desire of buying during the gap time, this proper release time of Galaxy S3 was advantageous to catch people’s attention all on this product so that it even broke through the 10 million barrier. Therefore, choosing the right timing is really important to make marketing decisions.

Picture From: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung-galaxy-s3-impressions-maybe-it-is-designed-by-human-emotion/

 

Picture From: www.apple.com

As for iPhone 5, after the long time waiting and rumours spreading , finally we are going to see and feel the new real iPhone 5 in our hands within less than a week. How excited! It is getting lighter, thinner and faster with a larger screen, though it looks not much different except of a longer shape and the mental back. This time, Apple didn’t stop or block those “New iPhone 5” rumours spreading as they used to do in Steve Jobs Era. This phenomenon have been brought up a lot of questions towards the new CEO Tim Cook’s lead. Would that be a more beneficial marketing strategy to leak information of the product before its release or he is going to lead Apple into the wrong direction. From my perspective, spreading rumours actually is a way to market the product, since you can get people’s attention back from others to some extent. And for those who follow and care about the rumours, are exact their targeted and potential customers.

Now here’s the problem, Apple and Samsung are both awesome marketers when promote their new cool new phones, in this case, they leave the decision for the customers: Which one should I pick if I am going to get a new phone? (If you are rich to afford both of them, then you can totally ignore my question.) Following is an article about the comparison of these two phones probably can help you with your decision.

Article: http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/iphone-5-vs-samsung-galaxy-s3 

Title: iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S3 – Design, Screen and Power, by Andrew Williams, 12 September 2012

I wanna listen to your opinions on why you want to choose either one or keep using your old phone, let’s say an iPhone 4/4S, Blackberry or Nokia. It will be a really interesting discussion about the little device that you can’t live without.