Judy Perry wrote:
We're gonna need heat shields for aluminum-cased laptops...
Your Mac laptop doesn't already double as a lap warmer? I cook
breakfast on mine.
But think of the heat if they tried to squeeze a G6 into a laptop. Like
Jobs says, more horsepower per watt.
And, wasn't it you who recently told another poster that s/he was wrong
about the 2% marketshare quote?
The figures I've read were about 2.5% worldwide, with 4% in US, Japan,
and Sweden. Those came from either Gartner or Forrester, and all I know
about how the figures were derived is that they were "based on unit
sales", whatever that means (does a user putting Linux on a Wintel box
get counted twice?).
This afternoon Jeanne DeVoto sent me this encouraging item:
According to a statement released earlier this year, Apple Computer
reported their 2005 first quarterly revenue and net income as the
highest in the history of their company, with 74% revenue growth.
Apple shipped 1,046,000 Macintosh units during this quarter,
representing a 26% increase in CPU units over the year-ago quarter.
According to US News and World Report, Macintosh owners buy 30%
more software than their Windows counterparts. Further, Macintosh
software comprises over 18% of all software sold, according to
the Software and Information Industry Association. In addition,
the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent
of computer users are on Macs.
<http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5933/>
I haven't seen how those figures were derived either, but it raises an
interesing question:
If Apple, for the first time since Jobs came back, not only returned to
the 10% marketshare of a decade ago but actually exceeded it by another
6 points, why wouldn't Apple be shouting this from the rooftops.
If memory serves, at 16% this would mean we currently have the largest
marketshare in the history Mac history.
I'd love to see Gartner/Forrester and the SPA duke it out and come up
with one number we can believe.
I have too many deadlines today to do it -- anyone want to send them
both a goading email to prompt either one or both of the to get their
poop in a pile?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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