Velveeta Fanboys Beat Out Apple Fanboys?
from the good-cover-for-Sony-and-Dell dept
The utterly perplexing 'Best Brands' poll is out, and for the seventh straight year, Sony comes at the #1 spot. This is of course in spite of last year's rootkit DRM saga, in which the company compromised the security of customer computers. Coming in at the #2 slot is Dell, which has taken numerous hits to its reputation in the last year over things like customer service and product quality. So does this mean that people just don't care about this stuff, and that those of us who track these things are just totally out of touch with the way most people think? The likely answer is that the poll is flawed and meaningless. One only need to look at the market to conclude that Apple (#10) probably should be higher than HP (#7) or that Google and Nike should be somewhere on the list. And, though it comes in at #9, you don't see many Kraft fanboys out there. So, unless these surveys can produce results that square with reality, the concept of best brand will continue its slide into meaninglessness.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Think again, bucko! Kraft is mainstream commercialized crap - I can't stand that faux mac and cheese they pass off as dinner! Er, I mean... Eh, whatever, it's mac and cheese. You win.
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Just because you don't know them doesn't mean they don't exist.
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Re: Polls
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HPonline sucks...
The large print giveth and the fine print taketh away: "All surveys are subject to several sources of error. ... With one exception (sampling error) the magnitude of the errors that result cannot be estimated. There is, therefore, no way to calculate a finite "margin of error" for any survey and the use of these words should be avoided."
And finally, for those of you that have taken any statistics classes, you probably know: "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."
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a gem from a statistics class
i guess our politicians are figuring, as well as techno corps
lol
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Popularity Contest
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The survely looks like this
A) Sony
B) Getting a root canal without pain killers
C) Getting an enema
D) Getting kicked in the nuts
The problem is that while Sony won the poll and got the "Best Brand" reputation, it only got 30% of the votes.
What this means is that Sony is COMPLETELY in the wrong business and just proves that they have no idea what their customers want.
People can come up with statistics to prove anything. Forty percent of all people know that.
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Simple Question
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Outside of the tech press and a few blogs, the rootkit debacle really wasn't paid attention too very much. It didn't make much of a dent in Sony's overall reputation. If anything, it increase Sony's overall brand awareness.
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Apple Brand
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and Apple should be like 20th.
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Stats
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Boo hoo
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mac-n-cheese over macs please
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There is a world outside of your parent's basement!
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I had this crazy girly asking me one day if i was the freagin lady of the house! GDI my voice is like int eh 500hz range and she's asking me this?!?!
Anyway she was so friggin biased that she was wondering whether I (so called lady of the house) (didnt want to subject wife to this horror) was concerned if TV ratings were too lax.
Well if you're asking a lady then they obviously are going to (*majority) believe that their too lax!
What guy thinks they too lax?
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Ok rant over
Hate macs love microsoft
Hated the microsoft monopoly court case
Hate Apple
Hate steve jobs
(Yes hating is legal)(If it bugs you then officially I said strongly dislike)
Hate iPods
Love iRivers
(iRiver was FIRST, FRIGGIN APPLE TOLE THE FRIGGIN "I")
Told you I was pissed
Hate imacs
Hate iBooks
Hate G4,G3,G2,G1 proccessors
Love intel
HAte ATI
Love nVidia
Hate Dell (STRONGLY)
Hp "ok"
nice printers from them
Lexmark Rox
Love voodoo,Alienware(though I havnt bought one)
(build my own sexy babes)(substitute babe for computer if you don't get it)
Kelly clarkson is nice
Keira Knightley is hot
Ok this is getting random
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Take My Poll
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Kraft makes more than Velveeta!
I'm not sure there is any other Kraft product in our house, but it's probably one of the best-known brands here...in the top 5 at least.
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