macobserver.com — Apple was ranked as the top brand in the United States for 2005 by brandchannel. The number two brand was Google...Apple earned its ranking thanks to a year of impressive innovations. Products like the Mac mini, Tiger, and three new iPods, the shuffle, nano and video capable iPod, all wowed consumers and analysts alike
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jarrodJan 24, 2006
QUOTE:Brandchannel conducts the study each year under the following conditions: * Readers are instructed to vote for the brands that had the most impact on them that year. * Impact is defined as good or bad. (Bad impact might be a brand like Enron.) * The study runs online and is open to the public during November and December. * Votes can be cast for up to five brands per region; respondents can only vote once per region but no section is mandatory.The study runs ONLINE. Apple and Google aren't the "top brands" in the world or US. Huge amounts of people have no idea who or what they even are. The study is done online, vastly skewing the already dubious results.
flashmasterJan 24, 2006
Wow, are all PC users plagued with jealousy and hatred every time they see the word Apple? I never hear any of the happy Apple users complain on a Windows digg. BTW: I use Windows and Mac. One I use out of necessity, and the other I use out of enjoyment. Can you guess which one is which?
badnewsblairJan 24, 2006
I am an Apple user but I have to admit there are a fairly close amount of shots fired from both sides on this site."Can't we all just get along?"
einfeldtJan 25, 2006
Okay, Apple products are slick, but they're also expensive and DRM'd. I don't really see a reason to celebrate. Linux is the new Mac. Mac is the new Windows. Windows is broken. It's true that Apple is coming out lots of cool new stuff, but what good is it if only APPLE, but not its CUSTOMERS, get to be innovative with Apple products? You can't tweak most of the code that comes with OS X, and what has Apple really given back to FreeBSD? Have they shared any of their new-found millions with KDE, whose Konqueror program is the basis for Safari? Steve Jobs has just become the biggest shareholder in Disney, which does run most of its operations on Linux (yay!) but is not very open-minded with DRM issues. I would like Apple a whole lot more if it were as good to the open source community as, say, MP3tunes, for example:<a class="user" href="http://slashdot.org/articles/06/01/23/1643234.shtml">http://slashdot.org/articles/06/01/23/1643234.shtml</a>
Closed AccountJan 25, 2006
Congrats Apple!
vJan 25, 2006
Wait... Skype is #3 globally?? File that under "The Rest of the World Gets It."