On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Reid Katan ka...@his.com wrote:
Dude. You've stepped in it now. Good luck getting a direct answer.
Thanks fpr the heads-up, but I've got on my big boots. We older
folks know know to walk through a slop field.
Steve
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:42 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I see you are getting closer to my point.
Why not make your point perfectly clear and stop beating around the
bush? Is your point something along the lines that older folks, a
group that you seem to have a hang-up about, are just
Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:42 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
I see you are getting closer to my point.
Why not make your point perfectly clear and stop beating around the
bush?
Dude. You've stepped in it now. Good luck getting a direct
On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:50 AM, mike wrote:
Well Tom says 9...you say 6...Tony says not above 5%. But you say
already
above 6...why not say it's nowhere near 9%? Maybe the better
question is
why can't anyone get the numbers? The difference between 6 and 9 is
huge.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:01 AM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
But I was writing about you. What you wrote was a clear example of Windows
thinking.
I hear from people who have recently gotten any iPody device, and I
also overhear recent recipients telling others about their excitement,
and
On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:38 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Again, I am not disparaging any Apple portable device, or any other
brand for that matter. I am simply saying that issues of product
quality, product specifications and additional technical parameters
are not much of a factor when a
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Mac sales figures dispute your theory. While just about everybody else in
the industry had negative growth, Mac sales are up 16% year over year.
Citing such stats may initiate a dispute, but does not negate my
theory. Sales figures
Since this thread is now about reality, I gotta ask: If this is
true, how many years will it take to reach 100% of the market? How
many to rise above 5%?
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Mac sales figures dispute your theory. While just about everybody else in
the
On Jan 7, 2010, at 10:59 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Those same folks are not the ones that we were discussing. We were
talking about folks who buy portable, mostly entertainment devices,
and those folks are usually young, not all that sophisticated about
how electronic devices work, and
On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Tony B wrote:
Since this thread is now about reality, I gotta ask: If this is
true, how many years will it take to reach 100% of the market? How
many to rise above 5%?
Apple has been above 5 for quite some time. I think they are at about
9 now.
With Android
According to Frank Cioffi of Market Watch, Apple's share is already at
6%. He further notes that Apple gets one of every five dollars from the
home computing market, presumably in the US, but the article didn't say.
Thank you,
Mark Snyder
-Original Message-
Since this thread is now
If the youngsters were hip to what tech works well, they'd not be buying
ipods for 'sound quality', ipods are not known for their fidelity. They
look cool, they sync fairly easy...they play well enough. I know what I'm
talking about...I've got six of them. I got mine not for sound quality but
One of the reasons for the 20% of dollars is that their model is
built on profits from hardware more than software.
Plus they have a very diverse market.
They do not loose any money on their Iphones. ATT takes all the risk.
So Apple is a highly profitable company.
Stewart
At 10:39 AM
Well Tom says 9...you say 6...Tony says not above 5%. But you say already
above 6...why not say it's nowhere near 9%? Maybe the better question is
why can't anyone get the numbers? The difference between 6 and 9 is huge.
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:59:39 -0500, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Mac sales figures dispute your theory. While just about everybody else in
the industry had negative growth, Mac sales are up 16% year over year.
Citing such stats may
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Jan 7, 2010, at 10:59 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Those same folks are not the ones that we were discussing. We were
talking about folks who buy portable, mostly entertainment devices,
and those folks are usually young, not
Problem is even if it is flashing 12 it is still right twice a day.
Secondly who still has VCR's hooked up to their system anyway?
Stewart
At 12:29 PM 1/7/2010, you wrote:
It is the old geezers like you that still have 12:00 AM flashing on their
VCRs.
God! You have cut me to the core!
On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Stewart Marshall wrote:
Secondly who still has VCR's hooked up to their system anyway?
I see you are getting closer to my point.
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On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:31 AM, Constance Warner wrote:
In this case, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that fancy
cellphones have replaced computers as all-purpose communications
devices. Cellphones are too small to display most of what's on the
Web. For a lot of people, cellphones
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:56 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
Our reality is often shaped by advertising and we don't realize that what
most people do is not advertised (because it does not have to be). Most
people use paygo, not the advertised contracts. Most people have simple
cellphones.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
Weren't there stories from NY and other metro areas of people getting mugged
specifically because they had white earbuds and thus the most expensive mp3
player on the market?
Yes. Bling envy. No great dollar value involved, just
On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:06 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
A close friend got emails from three of her friends wherein they
related Christmas gifts they had gotten this year. Two boasted of an
iPod Touch, and one of an iPod. Nothing else mentioned. Just those
items, as if you got one of those you
Reasonable being the highest price on the market...
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:38 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:06 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
A close friend got emails from three of her friends wherein they
related Christmas gifts they had gotten this year. Two
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:38 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
What? You think that somebody who got a Zune is going to brag about it? You
are so out of touch.
Not out of touch, as you say. I understand that those folks who
received the iPody devices are primarily thrilled because they now
have
On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:58 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Not out of touch, as you say. I understand that those folks who
received the iPody devices are primarily thrilled because they now
have what everybody else has. This is the lemming mentality. These
gift recipients finally belong, no
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:42 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:58 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Not out of touch, as you say. I understand that those folks who
received the iPody devices are primarily thrilled because they now
have what everybody else has. This is the
On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:26 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
No, no, no! It wasn't ME who got an iPody device. The folks who
were breathlessly extolling the fact that THEY had gotten one ARE
Windows users.
And good for them. I'm observing quite a change in attitude among
Windows drones after
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/06/18/microsoft-clarifies-windows-7-
downgrade-rights.aspx?s=gcndaily_190609
As I would expect, M$'s first offer only applies to expensive
versions of Win7. How long will it be before we get a downgrade plan
for NetBooks?
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