> Except the article isn't talking about users. He's talking about
Apple as a
> company possibly missing an opportunity. So it's not that the author
of the
> article doesn't get it, you are missing the point of the article.
Macs have
> often been compared to ferrari or bmw..companies not after 'market share'
> but after customers willing to pay more to get their products.
Trouble is
> I've never seen any CEO tell his investors, I sure hope this quarter we
> don't see any growth. Indeed at each apple conference Jobs brings up
market
> share, sales etc of all his divisions. Jobs and Apple want market share
> just like anyone else. They go after it the best they know how.
Being not
> a monopoly as MS is or nearly is, they can't use their dominance in other
> markets to 'sell' their brand. Apple does it by changing their product
> line, improving and trying to offer products they believe either don't
> exist, or aren't doing the job well.
Apple is #3 in the US computer market. They had 17.6% of laptop sales in
June. That's a significant increase in market share.
Apple sold a million iPhones since June. The iPhone is important because
it's also a computer that runs Mac OS X. The iPhone as a concept is
similar to the G4 Cube. The Cube was an experiment to see how small a
space could hold a G4 processor safely without a fan, as a precursor to
the G4 laptop. The iPhone is the result of Apple's vision for a
hand-held personal computer. Considering that the iPhone as a computer
is still in its infancy, sales are nothing short of spectacular.
The article is just a bunch of words taking up space with virtual hot
air. Twisting stats and taking them out of context is as bad as a lie.
The important market stats are here in the U.S., and also somewhat in
Europe and Japan, not in India or China or eastern Europe, or all the
places that Kay included in his stats to dilute the remarkable increase
in sales of Apple products.
Apple, Inc. is doing very well, indeed.
Betty
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