The Apple is Poison to the Palm Pre
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WHEREAS, customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction; and
WHEREAS, customer satisfaction is the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation; and
WHEREAS, customer expectation is normally an integral part of a companys customer value proposition; and
WHEREAS, the Apple Inc. corporation ("Apple") has continually marketed its products in such a way [e.g. "Byte into an Apple" (Late 1970s), "Soon there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use computers, and those who use Apples." (Early 1980s), "The Power to Be Your Best" (1990), "Think different." (1990s), "The Computer for the rest of us", and "The home computer that's ready to work, play and grow with you"] to suggest to the customer that its products were dynamically superior to its competition (i.e. Windows-based PCs) due to their ability to better augment their creativity, as well as their professional and personal growth; and
WHEREAS, Apple has been tremendously successful in marketing to its customers that their lives will be enriched through the purchase of Apple products because of their functionality and flexibility for creatively-minded media artists and practitioners; and
WHEREAS, Apple's great success is due in equal part to its product ingenuity, and the open marketplace that allowed that product ingenuity to blossom; now, therefore, be it,
RESOLVED, That Apple customers who may not happen to own an iPhone should be allowed to utilize their Mac computers and iPods to their full extent; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That this petition serve as notice to the Apple Corp. that they should cease punishing otherwise loyal customers by sabotaging the ability of one of its competitors (the Palm Pre) to synchronize services with these customer's legally-obtained and purchased computers, and the software that they contain (including iTunes, iCal, and Address Book); and, be it further
RESOLVED, That a final copy of this petition will be forwarded to the United States' Department of Justice, the President of the United States, the Congress of the United States, and to all the members of every state delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.
WHEREAS, customer satisfaction is the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation; and
WHEREAS, customer expectation is normally an integral part of a companys customer value proposition; and
WHEREAS, the Apple Inc. corporation ("Apple") has continually marketed its products in such a way [e.g. "Byte into an Apple" (Late 1970s), "Soon there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use computers, and those who use Apples." (Early 1980s), "The Power to Be Your Best" (1990), "Think different." (1990s), "The Computer for the rest of us", and "The home computer that's ready to work, play and grow with you"] to suggest to the customer that its products were dynamically superior to its competition (i.e. Windows-based PCs) due to their ability to better augment their creativity, as well as their professional and personal growth; and
WHEREAS, Apple has been tremendously successful in marketing to its customers that their lives will be enriched through the purchase of Apple products because of their functionality and flexibility for creatively-minded media artists and practitioners; and
WHEREAS, Apple's great success is due in equal part to its product ingenuity, and the open marketplace that allowed that product ingenuity to blossom; now, therefore, be it,
RESOLVED, That Apple customers who may not happen to own an iPhone should be allowed to utilize their Mac computers and iPods to their full extent; and, be it further
RESOLVED, That this petition serve as notice to the Apple Corp. that they should cease punishing otherwise loyal customers by sabotaging the ability of one of its competitors (the Palm Pre) to synchronize services with these customer's legally-obtained and purchased computers, and the software that they contain (including iTunes, iCal, and Address Book); and, be it further
RESOLVED, That a final copy of this petition will be forwarded to the United States' Department of Justice, the President of the United States, the Congress of the United States, and to all the members of every state delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.
30 Signatures
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Mike Dunn
- Comments
- Free the Palm Pre! Hey Apple: walk the talk!
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Powerbook G4, 2-classic ipod (4th generation 30G), 1-shuffle ipod (2nd gen), 1-shuffle ipod (3rd gen)
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Marc A Snyder
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Ipod classic
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Don H Rubin, MD
- Comments
- I use a mac, I use sprint, I would like to use my phone and my computer, there should not have to be choice here.
- Apple Products owned or bought
- 10 macs
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chris clement
- Comments
- Apple is racist in a electronic sense.
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Macbook,iphone,nano,itouch.... (not using iphone)
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Stefan Braunerwell
- Comments
- go free!
- Apple Products owned or bought
- iPhone Macbook iMac iPod
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Mike Rinehart
- Apple Products owned or bought
- iPod Touch
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Tao Chen
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Stacey Stemach
- Comments
- iPhone not available in my area (prefer the Pre anyway)
- Apple Products owned or bought
- MacBook Pro, iPod Nano
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Cody Moore
- Comments
- I think this should fall under anti-trust legislation
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Itunes MP3s
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Marty Perez
- Apple Products owned or bought
- iPod Nano, MacBook Pro
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Lee Allen
- Comments
- Apple has not be very nice about this
- Apple Products owned or bought
- None ever
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Elliot Kane
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Rodney Berryman
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Paul Tinius
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Hector Rodas
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Brian Danielson
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Mutliple computers, iPods and Accessories
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Derek Edge
- Comments
- I agree completely that Apples tight regulation of their software should be reversed even if it required a modest fee to allow the compatibility would also be acceptable rather then purposely trying to make sure nothing other then apple products to work.
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Ipod, macbook and soo to be Iphone
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David R Bunting
- Comments
- Can't use iPhone, no AT&T service here (98361), must use Pre
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Newspaper Publisher, all Mac since 1987.
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Chris Fleming
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Mac Book, iPod Touch, iMac
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Nestor J Troncoso
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Ipod x 2, Wi-Fi, MacBook Pro x 2, Shuffle, Airport
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john Wallace
- Apple Products owned or bought
- ibook g4
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Jen Hagerty
- Comments
- I'd love to see Apple loosen up a bit. Even if we had to pay a fee... I just love their stuff and I'd like to use it everywhere!
- Apple Products owned or bought
- Two iBooks, Macbook Pro, Shuffle, iPod
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Cathy Kloess
- Apple Products owned or bought
- 3 Macs (5 children-4 own pc's my only daughter and I own Mac's bought 5 Itouches had 2 stolen so we only now own 3 and 1 nano
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Hansjoerg Duetschler
- Apple Products owned or bought
- MacBook Pro, iMac Core Duo
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Peter Odelius
- Comments
- Palm Vx and probably more Palm products are affected
- Apple Products owned or bought
- MacBookPro, iTouch
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David R Poloche
- Apple Products owned or bought
- MacBook with Snow Leopard - Palm Tungsten E
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Rick Salvi
- Comments
- I'm a Pre owner and honestly, the lack of iTunes integration isn't a huge deal, but the lack of iCal/OSX integration does bother me.
- Apple Products owned or bought
- MacBook Pro (C2D SR 2.4GHz), iPod Touch (64GB), and an iMac G3.
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Tinamarie Harris
- Comments
- I am tired of having to redo and redo everything because of no upgrades from palm or help from apple
- Apple Products owned or bought
- MAcbook, ipod x 2
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Daniel Knox
- Apple Products owned or bought
- mac mini
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Tomas Wiegrefe
- Comments
- customers are important for your business
- Apple Products owned or bought
- MacBookPro, iMac 27"
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