Robert Scoble Quotes

A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.

If you're entering anything where there's an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can't be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer... you're always going to buy the trusted brand unless there's a big difference.

Market in India is big enough for several brands. For us, it's about innovation, making best product, and making the ecosystem better and better. If we do that well, then more people will switch from Android to iOS.

With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.

Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.

I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.

Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader.

The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.

Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.

We don't tell a 17-year-old kid that Nike sucks, because the fact of the matter is, Nike doesn't suck. They're actually very good at what they do.