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>How does apple becomes your hero when they are selling the same thing ?

They sell the product experience. Easily connects, looks nice and sounds nice. Every now and then they would throw some audiphileish numbers in the product description(like it updates 3 gazillion times per second) but it's never the central argument.

Apple products are always about the experience and they wouldn't hesitate to put higher end specs when matter and lower end specs when it doesn't and make nerds uncomfortable or even angry because it would miss-match their convention of GB per USD or Herz per Euro. This is the way it always was, most famously with iPhone where Apple doesn't disclose RAM or CPU frequency or battery capacity and all-knowing reviewers will angrily tell you that Apple sells 1000$ phone with 4GB of RAM and how ridiculous is this compared to, say Samsung where you get 12GB RAM for the same price.

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> They sell the product /experience/

But that's what you said the "audio gear industry" were doing

> I find it fascinating how the audio gear industry has thought the consumers on how much money you are supposed to spend to have audio /experience/

That's how you began your argument.

> Apple sells 1000$ phone with 4GB of RAM and how ridiculous is this compared to, say Samsung where you get 12GB RAM for the same price.

This is also the same line of reasoning for "audiophile products" vs (how ridiculous is this compared to) "average headphones".

By experience, I mean the experience you get from using the product, I don't mean the money spending experience. Audiophile industry definitely provides you the spending experience but that's not what I expect from products.

You must be more than average rich if buying apple products does not give you a "money spending experience".

Product experience is, debatable, having used at least one product, I can "imagine" how they can improve it.

While at the same time, having duped by the audiophile industry as well, the product was also great (i got those shure headphones).

What I am saying is sure there is no denying of experience wise of both spending/product, there is definitely a gap in the cost and worth of the product.

> By experience, I mean the experience you get from using the product, I don't mean the money spending experience. Audiophile industry definitely provides you the spending experience but taht's not what I expect from products.

Man, its painful on my eyes to even read stuff like that, how you contradict yourself within few lines. It would help to have some rational discussion about pros and cons, but you undermine the pro-Apple side pretty badly.

In this case Apple isn't doing anything magical or novel, there are similar products on the market for 1/4 of the price, looking better, possibly even sounding better. But sure go ahead and buy them, there are tons of folks buying 'quality' like Bose, Beats or similar.

I'll keep my cable plugged for my Sennheisers, but my main criteria is sound quality.

Can you please point out the contradiction?

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