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Consumers don't care about product specs, they care about their dreams, goals, and aspirations.

Compare an iPhone commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP1YAatv1Mc

to a DROID commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-K71MpwCko

Apple commercial => fun, likable personality using the product, and benefiting from it.

Droid commercial => OMG uber technology forged from a robot beast with a processor and LTE and a bunch of other stuff. 0 product. 0 benefits.

Droid is selling technology, Apple is selling an experience. It seems so obvious which one a mainstream consumer with no interest in the innards of their phone is going to choose. Google understands this concept, judging by their own marketing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqiSE-ukmgc

Maybe now that they've acquired Motorola they'll knock some sense into their marketing strategy

parent thesash 14 years ago

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