At 8:37 AM -0500 12/5/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 12/4/08, Dan wrote: >>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. > >I don't understand what you're saying. >Clones failed because they were better but less costly?
From the cloner's POV, business was good and growing. They were offering great quality machines for less than Apple -- exactly what the market wanted. From Apple's POV, it was a nightmare. The clone systems "overlapped" Apple's offerings, instead of complementing them, so people were buying clones instead of real Apples. It market, as a whole, didn't grow! Apple just lost sales to the cloners. I think today's situation is different. Apple has gigantic holes in their product line that they seem to have no interest in fixing. Customers are fast reaching a tipping point in their hatred of MS/viruses/Vista. If the likes of Dell and HP were allowed to offer OS X, it would immediately fill in the product gaps, and the whole market would explode... 1) Low-cost laptop. 2) Low-cost home desktop. 3) Low-cost office desktop. 4) Mid-range *expandable* desktop. iMac, Mac Pro, MB, and MBP are best-in-class for *high-end* desktops and laptops - totally unaffordable or undesirable by people that buy (1) thru (4). Ok. The down side... Those other vendors also have high-end systems. Apple would have Real Competition for the first time in its history. They'd have to get get moving to keep up. In the laptop market... they'd have to fix the reliability problems (23% repair rate is the worst in the industry) to survive. - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
