On 10/16/2011 12:17 PM, RD Sandman wrote:
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On 10/15/11 10:46 AM, John Smith wrote:
On 10/15/2011 8:41 AM, Lloyd E Parsons wrote:

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I don't think you or I will live long enough to see the 'year of
the mac' if that is defined as Apple being the dominant tech
provider. Not
going to happen.

But the 'year of the Mac' has already happened in the upscale
tech market with consumers with a few bucks.



Yes, I am sure many are heroes in their own mind, have saved the
world,
dominate the markets ... and it would be evil to destroy their
fantasies
... roflol

Still, one must keep a foot in reality ...

Regards,
JS

In business, the reality is growing your sales and profits. In
that, it
has been the year of the Mac for quite awhile now. You are free
to talk
about what volumes of sales are out there in wintel/linux world,
but that
is being done at pathetic profit levels.

Overall, desktop sales on all platforms is down as more go to
laptops. Primarily because laptops now have enough performance for
almost all applications and the prices are down quite a bit. Heck
for all the bitching about Apple's prices, laptops with similar
specifications and build quality are all pretty much the same in
cost.

Apple just doesn't do cheap laptops.

Which is why Apple sells only a small fraction of the number of
laptops sold. PC dominates over Mac even in the laptop market


But Apple makes most of the profit...

:-)

Shows they overprice their goods....

Not exactly a positive thing from the view point of anyone looking at
buying their products.




But an excellent one from theirs as long as it doesn't drastically reduce
sales. With the charisma Apple seems to hold, I don't think that is much
of a problem. It is like the folks who love to own Cadillacs. It
doesn't cost much more to produce a Cadillac than it does Chevy, but
compare the price and the cachet.


I don't even think that comparison is close.

It is more like a ford pickup and a Peterbilt!

Regards,
JS