On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Alan Dahl wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 06:07 AM, Eric Linnhoff wrote:
> > So, you and the twenty three other Mac users are happy now?
>
> Actually according to the latest sales stats Mac sales vs PC sales have
> ticked up 0.1% overall over the last year and have risen from about 3%
> to 5% with consumers (which offsets a loss in schools). Since Macs tend
> to stay in service longer that translates to about 11% of the installed
> base being Apples, not exactly fading away. Those numbers also don't
> count the iPod which holds 43% of the MP3 player market and is a
> runaway hit. A couple more big Windows viruses and Mac sales will
> probably go up even more :-).
"macs tend to stay in service longer" is largely a function of "people who
buy macs are casual users who want email and have the thing smile at you
when you turn it on". At least in the home market. These people are not
likely to upgrade aggressively. The game market is pretty much owned by
the PC world, and it is games that drive new computer technology for the
most part (at the desktop level anyway).
Which is all really too bad, since Apple has designed and engineered and
produced a superior product in almost every conceivable way, they just
don't have the marketing sense to get people to buy them. Pretty much too
late for that now, they were a competing and non-compatible technology to
"wintel", and now that "wintel" has captured the primary home market
(mostly based on games), developers are hesitant to put in time/resources
to port apps to a completely separate architecture...
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@foo3.com>
Cisco Certified Network Associate, Sun Solaris Certified Systems Administrator
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