On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > Mac sales figures dispute your theory. While just about everybody else in > the industry had negative growth, Mac sales are up 16% year over year.
Citing such stats may initiate a dispute, but does not negate my theory. Sales figures for Apple's computers does not prove that people who got other Apple products were thereby swayed into getting a Macintosh computer. Everyone, Apple Corp. included, thought that the switch to an Intel processor would boost sales. In fact, anybody that I know who got a Macintosh when they had previously owned Windows machines would probably never had done so had Apple not moved to the Intel, thus providing for the use of Windows on an Apple computer. Those individuals did make a decision based upon quality of product as well as the availability of having two operating systems at their disposal. Those same folks are not the ones that we were discussing. We were talking about folks who buy portable, mostly entertainment devices, and those folks are usually young, not all that sophisticated about how electronic devices work, and want whatever is currently trendy. > When I'm working on site it is not uncommon for a secretary or AA to ask if > they can get some advice. They don't ask dumb questions. To the contrary I'm > impressed by how well they think things through. They ask tough questions > about system integration that are often wiser than the analysis I see from > supposed IT pros. Yeah, well, that does not mean that they are educated consumers in a retail environment, especially when it comes to products that they are not particularly knowledgeable about. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
