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Analyst: Apple Likely to Sell 5 Million Copies of Snow Leopard This Quarter

I don't care if it's $29 or $129, I'll upgrade when I feel like upgrading (which won't be soon), and pay whatever they're asking.

As for Windows 7, just about every reviewer I have read is falling over with praise for it, just as much as they all slammed Vista. It's going to be very popular.
 
redgaz26 said:
lets remember that apple have what 10% of the market at most, of course more will have windows, ten times more!!!!!!
but every person I know running windows has some problem with it!!!!!
so glad to be one of the 10%:cool::cool:
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Actually, 9x more people would have Windows. :D
 
Yes the price for upgrading to SL is higher for Tiger users, but my guess is that many Tiger users are also on machines with PowerPC chips and aren't even eligible to upgrade anyway. However, once some of these people find this out, there may be a halo effect on Leopard (10.5) which spurs these people to go out an get that OS knowing that it's the end of the upgrade path for them.

As for price and margins, SL has always been a tricky sell because the average consumer is UI focused and really doesn't care, know or care to know what's under the proverbial hood. Many people buy the machines because of looks - shallow, I know. OS 10.6 in a nut shell is designed to get more juice for the squeeze when it comes to existing hardware as well as position Apple to do the same for future hardware generations. From an eye candy POV, SL doesn't really deliver (and that's not what it was designed to do) and that's precisely why it's $29.

On a future note, I can't see Apple giving the same treatment to OS 10.7. I think that release will be much more end-user focused. What will be neat will be in 18-24 months when Apple it unveils 10.7 and says, "In 2009 we gave you Grand Central and OpenCL. We've been hard at work utilizing those technologies ourselves and this is what their power can do...Behold, we give you 10.7!"
 
"I'd love to see evidence of the "antiquated technology" that exists in Windows."

Just go into the DOS command prompt and you will find it.
 
Michael73 said:
What will be neat will be in 18-24 months when Apple it unveils 10.7 and says, "In 2009 we gave you Grand Central and OpenCL. We've been hard at work utilizing those technologies ourselves and this is what their power can do...Behold, we give you 10.7!"
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Yeah. I think they'll fast track 10.7 too. I bet it gets previewed at next year's WWDC. That would be 10 or so months after Snow Leopard shipped. I predict a Spring 2011 (March-June 2011) release date. :D

Apple's OS X feature teams had to be working on something these last few years. Surely, they weren't all working on the iPhone or tablet.
 
On a future note, I can't see Apple giving the same treatment to OS 10.7. I think that release will be much more end-user focused. What will be neat will be in 18-24 months when Apple it unveils 10.7 and says, "In 2009 we gave you Grand Central and OpenCL. We've been hard at work utilizing those technologies ourselves and this is what their power can do...Behold, we give you 10.7!"[/QUOTE]

Clap Clap Clap !!!
 
Apple's OS X feature teams had to be working on something these last few years. Surely, they weren't all working on the iPhone or tablet.[/QUOTE]


HAHAHA
 
DudeDad said:
"I'd love to see evidence of the "antiquated technology" that exists in Windows."

Just go into the DOS command prompt and you will find it.
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Because a DOS prompt is so much older and more antiquated than the unix command line. :D
 
DudeDad said:
"I'd love to see evidence of the "antiquated technology" that exists in Windows."

Just go into the DOS command prompt and you will find it.
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Just like opening the Terminal and pottering in 70s command line...
 
great post from an article on pc world of all places which sums it up for me

"Macs aren't for everyone, but for those who can afford the best, it's silly to settle for less."
 
Well done!

run-kmc said:
Because a DOS prompt is so much older and more antiquated than the unix command line. :D
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Seriously funny.....and true! Lets just admit it....Win 7 is Vista with a prettier face and Snore Leopard is Unix with major breast augmentation and liposuction!
 
peterdevries said:
Although I agree that Apple will sell a monstrous amount of SL this quarter, I'm going to take this analysis by Munster with a grain of salt, just like "Munster has seen the future of TV and it has an Apple logo on it"-"analysis"... :rolleyes:
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Keep in mind that Munster declared Snow Leopard a "minor update" while ignoring QuickTime X, Grand Central Dispatch (very useful in those 8-core Mac Pro's), OpenCL and (from the Snow Leopard specs), "Mac OS X Snow Leopard delivers built-in support for the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server, something even Windows PCs don’t have."

Wall Street analysts who don't pounce on that as an important update shouldn't be allowed to work on Wall Street.
 
Bubba Satori said:
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