At 10:57 AM -0700 12/4/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >Apple will never make more money letting Dell sell OS X computers than >Apple selling OS X computers. This is the Clone Lesson.
This is where we're going to have to disagree forever, I guess. Dell et al are going to sell those computers, no matter what. The question is who gets the $20 to $40 per seat for the OS installed thereon - Microsloth or Apple? So what if Apple doesn't make as big a profit selling OS X as it does selling Macs. Duh - $129 vs $1200+ per unit retail. The point is to capitalize on a product they already make! Right now, they're making $0 selling OS X to that portion of the market. As for your clone argument... pfffft. The clone situation failed because they offered machines that had the same performance and were otherwise often better than Apple's. The situation is different today. Apple has gaping holes in their product line - into which Dell/et al's current offerings fit nicely. Let Apple stick to their supposed high-end pretty crap. If that ends up digging into Apple Corp's market share, so be it. Maybe they'll wake-the-f-up and offer computers that people really need. Right now... I look at my client base... I see they're going to buy about 1000 computers in the coming year. Maybe 100 will be Apple iMacs. After that Consumer Report study, plus their experiences over the past month+, they certainly won't buy ANY MacBook or MacBook Pro. Maybe a few Mac Pros. The rest will ALL be peecees, laptops and desktops. They hate XP so they'll probably do Linux on most. They're watching the Psystar case closely... They really want OS X but they just aren't going to spend $1200+ per seat for general office / secretarial / manager type computers. >Apple's competitors are companies like Acer, HP and Dell, NOT MICROSOFT. That's yesterday's thinking. Tomorrow is going to be very different. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
