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October 17th 11, 05:46 AM
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(OT) Steve Jobs.
"Alan Baker" wrote in message ... In article , "Scout" wrote: "Alan Baker" wrote in message ... In article , "Scout" wrote: "Alan Baker" wrote in message ... In article , "Scout" wrote: "Lloyd E Parsons" wrote in message ... On 10/15/11 10:46 AM, John Smith wrote: On 10/15/2011 8:41 AM, Lloyd E Parsons wrote: ... 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.... Since more and more people are buying them, how does it show that? Well, let's see....they make more profit from fewer sales than others...... Gee, sounds like overpriced products to me. Not exactly a positive thing from the view point of anyone looking at buying their products. I think people look at what they actually get--a computer that works better for them--and then they look at what the price represents in terms of cost per day and they realize that the differential is well worth it. :-)\ And then you have a bunch more people that decide, that the extra price really isn't worth it. Yup. That's true. But most of them make that decision blindly; never having actually used a Mac. I've worked with, supported, sold, worked with, sold, and supported Macs since about 1985. In all that time, of the people who've switched from PCs to Macs, only one wanted to go back. And how many didn't switch? |
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