On Jun 9, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Tony Arnold wrote: > On 10/06/2010, at 7:36 AM, Andrew Merenbach wrote: > >> I love the Mac, too, but My perception--without any true or firm numbers, of >> course--is that Apple may be having trouble drawing a larger following, >> though, with their traditional Mac OS X offerings. iOS provides an >> opportunity to take the market by storm >> > This has never been Apple's modus operandi before - they've always been quite > content to have a profitable niche. I think a lot of the "mac is dead" > nonsense is being driven by iOS developers looking for attention (and thus > sales).
Oddly, the only place I see this Mac doom and gloom stuff is on the MacSB list from long-time Mac developers. :-) I'm going to guess that next year WWDC will be all Mac and the world will be right again. Mac sales appear to be solid and not slowing down at all. This just happens to be the year of the iPhone for developers. > iPad is a not a good replacement for anything that requires you to have more > than one context visible onscreen at a time. Sorry, but you'll have a hard > time convincing existing computer users that only being able to see one thing > on screen at a time is a better way of working. Unless it's a game, or a > media player. I'm not sure why people keep trying to position the iPad as a desktop replacement, since Apple is clearly positioning them as a middle device. Someday, it might be able to fill that spot, but not today. Dave
