Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 at highend
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> Friday, May 16, 2008 6:30 PM/EST
> Macs Defy Windows' Gravity
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> News Analysis. Consider this: Apple's retail market share is 14 percent, and two-thirds for PCs costing $1,000 or more.
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> Should I repeat those numbers? The share data is for first-quarter brick-and-mortar stores, as tabulated by the NPD Group. Apple's market share is but one measure of success. Sales growth is way up, while Windows desktop PC sales are way down.[/color]
Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 at high end
On 2008-05-23, Matt <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> claimed:[color=blue]
> [url]http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/channel/macs_defy_windows-gravity.html[/url][/color]
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>> Should I repeat those numbers? The share data is for first-quarter
>> brick-and-mortar stores, as tabulated by the NPD Group. Apple's
>> market share is but one measure of success. Sales growth is way up,
>> while Windows desktop PC sales are way down.[/color][/color]
MS did it to the x86 world by forcing them to get Fisted©. This is
their best chance to push back as hard as they can and break the
manacles once and for all.
--
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Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 athigh end
On Fri, 23 May 2008 06:12:22 -0500, Matt wrote:
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>> Friday, May 16, 2008 6:30 PM/EST
>> Macs Defy Windows' Gravity
>>
>> News Analysis. Consider this: Apple's retail market share is 14
>> percent, and two-thirds for PCs costing $1,000 or more.
>>
>> Should I repeat those numbers? The share data is for first-quarter
>> brick-and-mortar stores, as tabulated by the NPD Group. Apple's market
>> share is but one measure of success. Sales growth is way up, while
>> Windows desktop PC sales are way down.[/color][/color]
While this may good news for Mac users, how does it effect Linux users?
There a few brick and mortar stores that sell Linux pre-installed. There
are few stores of any kind that sell Linux pre-installed.
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Rick
Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 at highend
These numbers are phenomenal. I thought the downturn in the economy
would blunt Apple's momentum from 2007, but if anything it seems to
have accelerated. Ballmer and Gates can't be happy about this. As I
understand it, Apple has not made many inroads into the enterprise,
where businesses use a lot of Windows-based software. And they
haven't tried much either. But that could change. The ability to run
XP or Vista under OS/X is a big selling point for some people. In the
meantime, most of this growth in Macs comes from consumers, not
businesses, so in that segment, the numbers are even more impressive
than they seem.
Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 at high end
On 2008-05-23, Sinister Midget <fardblossom@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> On 2008-05-23, Matt <matt@themattfella.xxxyyz.com> claimed:[color=green]
>> [url]http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/channel/macs_defy_windows-gravity.html[/url][/color]
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>>> Should I repeat those numbers? The share data is for first-quarter
>>> brick-and-mortar stores, as tabulated by the NPD Group. Apple's
>>> market share is but one measure of success. Sales growth is way up,
>>> while Windows desktop PC sales are way down.[/color][/color]
>
> MS did it to the x86 world by forcing them to get Fisted©. This is
> their best chance to push back as hard as they can and break the
> manacles once and for all.
>[/color]
Microsoft singlehandedly made it possible for Macs to be price
competitive for the general market. Get a machine souped up enough
to be genuinely Vista capable and you might as well buy a smaller
and prettier mini.
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Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 at high end
On Fri, 23 May 2008 07:18:18 -0500, Rick wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 May 2008 06:12:22 -0500, Matt wrote:
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>> [url]http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/channel/macs_defy_windows-[/url][/color]
> gravity.html[color=green]
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>>> Friday, May 16, 2008 6:30 PM/EST
>>> Macs Defy Windows' Gravity
>>>
>>> News Analysis. Consider this: Apple's retail market share is 14
>>> percent, and two-thirds for PCs costing $1,000 or more.
>>>
>>> Should I repeat those numbers? The share data is for first-quarter
>>> brick-and-mortar stores, as tabulated by the NPD Group. Apple's market
>>> share is but one measure of success. Sales growth is way up, while
>>> Windows desktop PC sales are way down.[/color][/color]
>
> While this may good news for Mac users, how does it effect Linux users?
> There a few brick and mortar stores that sell Linux pre-installed. There
> are few stores of any kind that sell Linux pre-installed.[/color]
There are a few stores that *OFFER* Linux pre-installed.
Whether or not they can actually *SELL* them is another story.
Walmart couldn't manage to do it.
[url]http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9068038[/url]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has stopped selling Everex's Linux-based PC in its
stores because of a tepid response from customers.
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Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 athigh end
[email]nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu[/email] wrote:
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> As I
> understand it, Apple has not made many inroads into the enterprise,[/color]
Yes, I remember being kind of surprised ca. 1993 when my department had
an Apple laser printer, the only laser printer for about 40 people. It
seemed like a good printer though.
Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 at high end
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Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 athigh end
On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:42:25 -0400, Moshe. Goldfarb wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 May 2008 07:18:18 -0500, Rick wrote:
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>> On Fri, 23 May 2008 06:12:22 -0500, Matt wrote:
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>>> [url]http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/channel/macs_defy_windows-[/url][/color]
>> gravity.html[color=darkred]
>>>
>>>> Friday, May 16, 2008 6:30 PM/EST
>>>> Macs Defy Windows' Gravity
>>>>
>>>> News Analysis. Consider this: Apple's retail market share is 14
>>>> percent, and two-thirds for PCs costing $1,000 or more.
>>>>
>>>> Should I repeat those numbers? The share data is for first-quarter
>>>> brick-and-mortar stores, as tabulated by the NPD Group. Apple's
>>>> market share is but one measure of success. Sales growth is way up,
>>>> while Windows desktop PC sales are way down.[/color]
>>
>> While this may good news for Mac users, how does it effect Linux users?
>> There a few brick and mortar stores that sell Linux pre-installed.
>> There are few stores of any kind that sell Linux pre-installed.[/color]
>
> There are a few stores that *OFFER* Linux pre-installed. Whether or not
> they can actually *SELL* them is another story.
>
> Walmart couldn't manage to do it.[/color]
They sold out in their stores, and still sell online.
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> [url]http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?[/url][/color]
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> Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has stopped selling Everex's Linux-based PC in
> its stores because of a tepid response from customers.[/color]
Or was it because the product didn't match the in store customer base.?
Wal Mart still sells Linux based machines online.
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> Linux, it's free but who really cares?[/color]
Apparently you, since you have stated you and your family use Linux.
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Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 at high end
[email]nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu[/email] <nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu> espoused:[color=blue]
> These numbers are phenomenal. I thought the downturn in the economy
> would blunt Apple's momentum from 2007, but if anything it seems to
> have accelerated. Ballmer and Gates can't be happy about this. As I
> understand it, Apple has not made many inroads into the enterprise,
> where businesses use a lot of Windows-based software. And they
> haven't tried much either. But that could change. The ability to run
> XP or Vista under OS/X is a big selling point for some people. In the
> meantime, most of this growth in Macs comes from consumers, not
> businesses, so in that segment, the numbers are even more impressive
> than they seem.
>[/color]
I wrote some time ago that I expected to see Apple take the top-end of
the market, and linux the bottom-end, server space and back-end nuts and
bolts jobs. Apple are very expensive, but their equipment is very well
made, they're rather like the B&O of computing.
Of course, because of their pricing, they only need to sell at, say,
10% of the revenue of a low-margin provider in order to easily beat them
in margin.
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Re: Apple's market share is 14% at brick & mortar stores; 2/3 at high end
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> [email]nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu[/email] <nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu> espoused:[color=green]
>> These numbers are phenomenal. I thought the downturn in the economy
>> would blunt Apple's momentum from 2007, but if anything it seems to
>> have accelerated. Ballmer and Gates can't be happy about this. As I
>> understand it, Apple has not made many inroads into the enterprise,
>> where businesses use a lot of Windows-based software. And they
>> haven't tried much either. But that could change. The ability to run
>> XP or Vista under OS/X is a big selling point for some people. In the
>> meantime, most of this growth in Macs comes from consumers, not
>> businesses, so in that segment, the numbers are even more impressive
>> than they seem.
>>[/color]
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> I wrote some time ago that I expected to see Apple take the top-end of
> the market, and linux the bottom-end, server space and back-end nuts and
> bolts jobs.[/color]
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> Apple are very expensive, but their equipment is very well
> made, they're rather like the B&O of computing.[/color]
Then perhaps you can show some examples where Apple is grossly overpriced.
I didn't think so.
B&O is garbage. It looks nice but that's about it.
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> Of course, because of their pricing, they only need to sell at, say,
> 10% of the revenue of a low-margin provider in order to easily beat them
> in margin.[/color]
Absolutely retarded and clueless without a single shred of evidence to back
this up.
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