According to research from Parks Associates, Apple is the top brand in a wide range of categories, including tablets, laptops, smartphones, home networking routers, MP3 players, and streaming media devices.
So basically, Apple isn’t the top brand in cars and hockey sticks.
What? Not hockey sticks?? How ’bout beer?
Apple would probably make a great hockey stick but I would probably have to decide if I would need it for the looks or how it would help my shooting.
Ok.
I would get it for the looks. Nothing can help my shot.
Ah, it’s user preference, not sales.
Makes sense.
(I was especially piqued by the “home networking routers” thing; Apple only sells high-end kit there, and they certainly can’t win on sales quantity.
But AirPort, for all its lack of Weird Geek Stuff [QoS, in-depth administration] works really well, and in my limited experience tends to more reliable than, at very least, the cheap competition.
My Time Capsule and AirportExpress setup is the first bridging [that is, network extending between base stations, not a simply Ether-Wireless bridge] setup I’ve ever seen that not only just worked, but was reliable and not insanely difficult to set up.
Which is typical of today’s Apple.)