John, I hear you and I did hear it in the speech, but these things are usually drowned by all the other humdrum. i am glad you pointed them out in isolation and with clarity. I do want to watch that speech again while not having food cooking!!!, though. - As to the lackluster of the presentation Jerry related to, well, how can one keep on ra ra rawing it all the time ( think of those crazy Walmart morning PRAYERS- that is what they are, and the God is Walmart), a low key approach with highly creative products seems to me more believable. Secondly, we can't all be screamingly enthusiastic all the time, and what we don't want is a speech like Jerry Falwell would give on the infallibility of the Christian right, Steve Jobs giving one on the new godlike attributes of the time machine. So a little dullness versus false enthusiasm to me is not at all a bad idea. Marta
On Aug 9, 2006, at 9:55, Profile wrote: > > The new products are awesome, the next OS will be so "cool", but in > listening to Steve's message I noted the following: > > > With 157 stores during the last Quarter the Apple stores had 17 > MILLION visitors!? (for each store this equates to around 109,000 for > the three months, or around 1200 per day)!! > > Of the Mac sales last quarter, 50% of them were NEW to Mac! > > Last quarter the growth rate of PC's was 6% to 7% (hard to tell on the > chart) > > Last quarter the growth rate for Mac's was 16% to 17% (hard to tell on > the chart) > > Mac notebook market share of ALL U.S. retail sales was 6% in January, > doubling in just six months to 12%!! > > So, good news indeed, and with all the Gee?Whizz of > the?introductory?products and software these numbers may have been > overlooked! > > John R. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
