> >When the price gap narrows enough, it will no longer make >sense to *NOT* have Mac capable hardware. >
Macs will always be significantly more money, as Apple works on a 25% profits basis on computers. Others work on much more narrow margins. However, the fact that Apple no longer needs to do major R&D could allow Apple to drop to say, 18% profit rates. I doubt Apple will, however. One note - pretty much every discount hardware manufacturer has failed when they try to grow to large. Apple needs to stay in the premium marketplace. And they will. Market share won't matter as much when their "roads" are standard - and PC users will be able to pay more for more elegant designs, and use Windows anyways. Whether many people will pay the $300+ penalty for such, we will find out. (Don't forget the $100-$200 Windows costs) Apple is counting more on entertainment, less on computing, in the future. Can they succeed? Not that this topic has much to do with emailer, though. ;-) Mark James SoftRAID, LLC mjames@ softraid.com Frogs have it easy. They can eat what bugs them. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
