Two things:
It's great that Apple has the lead in education portables, but really what does that mean?? How does 30% translate to the bigger picture. Schools still buy way more desktops than laptops. It seemed like a contrived claim to show leadership. If you force enough restrictions on any set of data points, claiming market leadership becomes irrelvant when the data points are too few. (On top of which, many of the means to attain that 30% included cutting deeper into profit-margins in the edu divisions. It seemed much like Apple's claim to exceeding the Street's expectations at the end of last quarter, but neglecting to mention all the job cuts conducted prior the quarterly results in order to "exceed" those expectations by only 2 cents, with many of those let go being long-term employees that had been working on the G5 up until presentation time.)
About the mention by another poster about Microsoft and it's take no prisoner strategy... With Photoshop, Microsoft seems to have no interest in targeting it. There hasn't been an update to mspaint since Win3.1. Microsoft seems more interested in an iMovie/FCExpress "killer" with its development and bundling of Movie Maker (especially since v2 seems to be edging from iMovie to FCExpress.) Adobe sees no concerns from Microsoft as much as from Apple's recent strategy concerning PS. I've never seen Adobe "threatening" to stop Mac development. (if you exclude the rumour-mongerring of the Apple faithful) Adobe stopped Premiere because of FCP pricing. In this case, Apple may be it's own worst enemy by targeting products from its own developer base (verses bringing in new products that haven't been supported on OS X) If Apple targets PS, the ROI for Adobe goes to shT and if I were Adobe, I'd stop developing for Apple too (just common business sense); you have to blame Apple if such a scenario occurs. With Acrobat/PDF, Adobe's recent revision of corporate strategy to increase revenue is to increase the PDF/paperless product lines. Adobe sees themselves as the go-getters to take Microsoft Office business more than Microsoft sees themselves as targeting Adobe. True, they're competeing over the same market, but it seems like turn-around for who's targeting who. The Office "security" features seems a bit more geared to creating vendor lock-in for client-server strategies and to rejuvenate the Office product line's revenue streams since there are many businesses that haven't seen the need to update to the latest and greatest Office. (Plus a chance to milk the security-concerns hype surrounding businesses and governments today)
It's great that Apple has the lead in education portables, but really what does that mean?? How does 30% translate to the bigger picture. Schools still buy way more desktops than laptops. It seemed like a contrived claim to show leadership. If you force enough restrictions on any set of data points, claiming market leadership becomes irrelvant when the data points are too few. (On top of which, many of the means to attain that 30% included cutting deeper into profit-margins in the edu divisions. It seemed much like Apple's claim to exceeding the Street's expectations at the end of last quarter, but neglecting to mention all the job cuts conducted prior the quarterly results in order to "exceed" those expectations by only 2 cents, with many of those let go being long-term employees that had been working on the G5 up until presentation time.)
About the mention by another poster about Microsoft and it's take no prisoner strategy... With Photoshop, Microsoft seems to have no interest in targeting it. There hasn't been an update to mspaint since Win3.1. Microsoft seems more interested in an iMovie/FCExpress "killer" with its development and bundling of Movie Maker (especially since v2 seems to be edging from iMovie to FCExpress.) Adobe sees no concerns from Microsoft as much as from Apple's recent strategy concerning PS. I've never seen Adobe "threatening" to stop Mac development. (if you exclude the rumour-mongerring of the Apple faithful) Adobe stopped Premiere because of FCP pricing. In this case, Apple may be it's own worst enemy by targeting products from its own developer base (verses bringing in new products that haven't been supported on OS X) If Apple targets PS, the ROI for Adobe goes to shT and if I were Adobe, I'd stop developing for Apple too (just common business sense); you have to blame Apple if such a scenario occurs. With Acrobat/PDF, Adobe's recent revision of corporate strategy to increase revenue is to increase the PDF/paperless product lines. Adobe sees themselves as the go-getters to take Microsoft Office business more than Microsoft sees themselves as targeting Adobe. True, they're competeing over the same market, but it seems like turn-around for who's targeting who. The Office "security" features seems a bit more geared to creating vendor lock-in for client-server strategies and to rejuvenate the Office product line's revenue streams since there are many businesses that haven't seen the need to update to the latest and greatest Office. (Plus a chance to milk the security-concerns hype surrounding businesses and governments today)
