{"id":118,"date":"2011-01-04T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2011-03-11T00:42:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T00:42:57","slug":"when-you-know-youve-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/2011\/01\/when-you-know-youve-made-it\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Know You&#8217;ve Made It"},"content":{"rendered":"<script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script> <fb:like href=\"http%3A%2F%2Fjoe-mangum.com%2F2011%2F01%2Fwhen-you-know-youve-made-it%2F\" show_faces=\"false\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 15px 0px; clear:both;\"><\/fb:like><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The Top of the Game\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cdn.tripadvisor.com\/media\/photo-s\/01\/1b\/3d\/11\/jumping-for-joy-on-top.jpg\" alt=\"The Top of the Game\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" \/>As much as I hate Apple products, mostly for reasons that follow the stereotypical &#8220;Apple Haters,&#8221; I have to hand it to a company that puts out such &#8220;cool&#8221; products on a consistent basis. My problem with Apple isn&#8217;t because I think their products are bad, on the contrary, I think they are fantastic. I think the main reason I&#8217;m rubbed the wrong way with them is that they KNOW they are great. Anyway, I won&#8217;t get into the &#8220;therefore&#8217;s&#8221; and &#8220;hence&#8217;s&#8221; that follow that fault.<\/p>\n<h2>How Did Apple Do It?<\/h2>\n<p>What I did want to talk about is the fact that Apple KNOWS that they&#8217;ve made. It&#8217;s not because they brought in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/20\/apple-q3-2010-earnings-re_n_653249.html\">$3.25 billion in Q3<\/a> alone last year. It&#8217;s not because they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/04\/05\/business\/main6365533.shtml\">sold over 300K ipads<\/a> the day it opened on the market. It&#8217;s also not because a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rw2nkoGLhrE\">youtube spoof of Steve Jobs<\/a> and the made up product the Apple I-Rack has over 5,000,000 views. No, the real reason has nothing to do with any of these.<\/p>\n<p>So what is it? How can you tell when a company has reached market nirvana (dominance)? The reason I know Apple has done it is because no matter who you are, if you have the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookair\/\">Macbook air<\/a>, the number of different people you&#8217;re likely to spark up a conversation with in a given day literally doubles. It&#8217;s the same story for those who had an <strong>iPhone <\/strong>in 2007. And for those who got an <strong>iPad <\/strong>early last year. When you can take a dorky, 119 pound 19 year old with glasses the most popular guy in school in just one day, THAT is when you know you&#8217;ve made it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23imjustsayin\">#imjustsayin<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/2011\/01\/when-you-know-youve-made-it\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script> <fb:like href=\"http%3A%2F%2Fjoe-mangum.com%2F2011%2F01%2Fwhen-you-know-youve-made-it%2F\" show_faces=\"false\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 15px 0px; clear:both;\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I hate Apple products, mostly for reasons that follow the stereotypical &#8220;Apple Haters,&#8221; I have to hand it to a company that puts out such &#8220;cool&#8221; products on a consistent basis. My problem with Apple isn&#8217;t because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/2011\/01\/when-you-know-youve-made-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12,4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joe-mangum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}