Well we can hope that Apple comes out with faster machines, I have read these articles too, but Apple has lagged in getting things out the door on time or anywhere near the predicted release dates i.e.,. 10. not really ready for prime time. We can hope they come up with something that really blows the paint off the machine with X. I love my Mac but like other users I am not going to buy hardware until it will really move X. Most Mac users are doing the same unless the have money to burn or need the latest and greatest. This is not good business for Apple. They may be able to live in the 2% bracket, but we are not discussing cars, we are discussing a machine which must be compatible with the rest of the work the world does, if we get pushed out by the 98% percent majority we are in trouble.
And while Apple is trying to catch up to the bar that giant in Redmond is not sitting on it's butt either, they are raising the bar. They do cheat, steal, and squash good ideas, but they do marketing better, Apple missed that boat..
these are all hyperbole. most of the things people expect of Apple are pride issues, and have little bearing on Apple's actual expectations or necessities. when marketshare numbers are discussed (like your 2% bracket), we're talking about current sales levels. when we talk about actual units-in-use, Macs constitute a much higher share of the market - somewhere in the 10-15% area. Apple may be selling fewer machines right now, but this is balanced by the fact that Macs last much longer. The average PC is replaced every 3 years. Macs are replaced about every 5-7 years.
all that truly matters is that Apple produces machines that people will buy and use - and they've proven that they can do this even during the darkest times.
I have always pushed the Mac because of quality, ease of use, and the ease of troubleshooting.. This was the real beauty of the Mac OS, but the real Mac OS is dead, we are now using UNIX with a
Mac eye candy. For techies this might be great but under the GUI eye candy is a very complex system. The average user is going to find this difficult to troubleshoot unless Apple does some serious tweaking. It actually is closer to windoz then Mac..
knowledge of the UNIX underbelly is almost completely unnecessary. the classic Mac OS had a cryptic underbelly ("the ToolKit") but knowledge of it was also completely unnecessary. I fix Macs for a living - i see a couple of dozen sick Macs every day, and very, very rarely do I delve into the Terminal. I can fix virtually everything through the GUI.
I have read the CR reports of Apples products and agree they really do not know Macs, I have sent them letters in the past pointing out huge errors in rating the Mac, so because this one time they say good things CR is right, what about their wrong views of the Mac. We take the good but throw out the bad.? Is that really a fair.. I have had different experiences with Apples Service, far from good..
Geoff
there are exceptions to every report.... but do you have any clue how CR comes to their conclusions? They survey people like you and me - hundreds of them. Just because you have had bad experiences, that does not mean that you are indicative of a pattern.
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