Because majority of apple users are in US - this is what I believe -
Not every country has a clear data about consumer product sales.
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Apple's Market Share Hitting Highs
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Not every country has a clear data about consumer product sales.
Right, because Macs play so well with unsupported hardware.
As with any OS you should make sure the hardware is supported before you buy it. With Linux that requires a little more than looking on the box. The fact that people seem to think they can buy any piece of hardware and get it to work with Linux shows just how much driver support it actually has.
A good start would be reading the methodology for collecting the data. Another place to look would be at Apple's numbers.
Less than half of the units sold are in the US. More than any other region, yes, but not a majority.
Careful!!!!
Be careful with the stock. I have owned it for the past two years or so. Recently I just had to get out (Granted I sold high) but it was just too much. Its a stock that isn't driven by numbers. The stock runs on news. Yes, the numbers do help, but they change little. The only time that there is anything numbers related driving the stock is when the smash earnings. Its very volatile and not a stock for short term nor weak of hear.
All that being said, over the past two years, its made me a nice chunk of change. I got in right after the split, so at around 40... It does have the potential to make any wallet just a tad fatter.
Be careful with the stock. I have owned it for the past two years or so. Recently I just had to get out (Granted I sold high) but it was just too much. Its a stock that isn't driven by numbers. The stock runs on news. Yes, the numbers do help, but they change little. The only time that there is anything numbers related driving the stock is when the smash earnings. Its very volatile and not a stock for short term nor weak of hear.
All that being said, over the past two years, its made me a nice chunk of change. I got in right after the split, so at around 40... It does have the potential to make any wallet just a tad fatter.
I have been buying and holding as well as buying and trading Apple stock for over 10 years. I have made a fortune on the buy and hold, but I have also made good money on the buy and sell. You are right about the stock driven by news, and it is great to recognize that for buying and selling. I consider Apple one of the safest stocks, because of their constant innovation.
Apple's market share in both the computer and cell phone markets is hitting highs according to Net Applications.
Last month the Mac OS had 6.8% market share, compared to 5.39% for November 2006. This represents the highest market share in Apple's steady climb, which appears to be almost directly proportional to a slightly declining Microsoft Windows installed base (Windows declined -1.74%, Mac increased 1.41%).
In addition, Net Applications has issued an interesting report stating that the iPhone has quickly overtaken Microsoft's Windows Mobile as the most used mobile OS on the web.
In contrast to market share numbers by firms like Gartner which combine quarterly results from the industry to give market share of sales, Net Applications market share numbers attempt to represent installed base of internet users. More on how Net Applications gets its numbers...
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This is great news. With Microsoft continuing to be slow releasing new products and failing to deliver on promises such as many of the originally hyped vista features and vista ultimate extras I think many Microsoft users are becoming disappointed with Microsoft and are starting to look at alternatives...the mac being one of the most appealing. Not only that but the iPhone and iPod sales certainly are helping too. The sales combined provide a great outlook for Apple now and in the future. Way to go Apple!
In my experience, and no doubt as you can tell by my avatar, I feel a mixed approach is best. Neither Apple nor the GNU/FSF/OSS camps have all of the answers. I am ethically drawn towards Linux, and in a lot of respects I feel it is the technical equal (or even better) of Mac OS X; however there still are things that Mac OS X does better, or at least does in a way which suits me better.
However, I also would not so capriciously as has been done here upthread dismiss Linux nor it's hardware support.
However, I also would not so capriciously as has been done here upthread dismiss Linux nor it's hardware support.
Out of interest (and I am a long term Linux user myself, so this isn't just a fanboyism here) what about Linux do you feel is technically better than Mac OS X?
I don't really see the benefit of a mixed Linux/Mac approach on a desktop, because all the software I want to use that is Linux based, runs on Mac OS X no problem for me. My first Mac was actually set up dual boot Linux/Mac OS X but I found that after 3 months I never actually booted into Linux any more. For me Mac OS X is a full replacement for Linux and at least a partial replacement for Windows (for Office at least).
I don't know how competent I am to comment on it's internals, though I suspect it's probably more robust in terms of memory management, multi-tasking, and security (remember SELinux?). It certainly seems to be more robust in terms of administration, and naturally fully exposes it's internals to anyone to tweak as they see fit for their own needs. This is beyond the scope of what Apple generally intends with Mac OS X / Aqua. Whether it's a good thing or not is really often more a matter of holy religious wars. In most cases, I think it comes down to personal preference.
I do like the fact that you can choose amongst several different environments (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) and I also like the fact that the GNU/Linux community's only real "agenda" is user empowerment, and that they hold no allegiance to any commercial interest. Two highly trivial examples of this that I can name right off the top of my head are: 1. The ability to skip through whatever menus and materials are on a DVD (because VLC, MPlayer, and other OSS media players) do not bow down to the various "flags" set into the components of a video DVD; and 2. The ability to transfer music of both supported formats on to and off of an iPod, and to use this same iPod on any number of different computers that one desires.
You're implying dual-booting on a single machine, sir, and suggesting that's what I meant. I did not. I'm talking about using Mac OS X and Linux within a "single shop" (in my case, within my home). Until recently I had two "workstation" Macs, and the other person in my home has (still) one "workstation" Mac. All of these computers are PPC-based Macs. Now, with the recent sale of my PowerBook G4, we are down to two "workstation" Macs. The other Mac is a vintage 1997 PowerMac G3/300 Desktop that is used as both a web server and a file server.
Now, all of our "workstation" computers run Mac OS X, since Linux (especially for PPC) is not quite as viable, given lack of support and lack of interest in further development of an aging hardware set for which Apple really never fully disclosed all the technical details. It'd have been nice if they would have, but since they didn't -- and now especially in light of the fact that PPC is a dying architecture anyhow -- Linux for PPC will continue to be an ever-increasingly "red-headed stepchild". Besides, my areas of interest and focus include image manipulation and graphic design (aka "desktop publishing") and, I'm sorry, but those are not areas of usability sufficiently represented in Linux. Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, none of them are "ready for prime time", none of them are realistically viable in a true professional production environment. That's not a condemnation of the software itself, nor the development teams, all of which has made, from a technical standpoint, an amazing amount of progress. And who knows, maybe in 2-3 years they might even begin to compete with Adobe's suite of apps. But the point is that they do not now.
Now, my ten year old workstation-repurposed-as-server PowerMac is running Debian Etch, the latest versions of Apache, Samba, Gnome, and unlike what would otherwise be the case I can even surf the web on it with the latest release of Firefox.
Hopefully this answers your response and anyone else's questions.
I'll give you SELinux, the others I'm not so certain that Linux has any technical edge over Mac OS X on. Mac OS X certainly has for example, better SMP support than Linux.
The same is true for Mac OS X. The kernel is open source, and admistrative interfaces are tweakable in much the same way as in linux. The main difference is that you don't need to understand the complex details to use Mac OS X, whereas on Linux you're often told to start diving into a random text file if something doesn't work.
Of course the huge downside is inconsistent apps, ugly interfaces and poorly developed UI interactions and lack of innovation (almost all the new cool features of KDE4 for example are directly ripped off from Mac OS X and Vista).
I think you got off track here. I wasn't talking about OSS vs Closed Source. I was talking Mac OS X vs Linux. The applications you talk about above are all available for Mac OS X. Also Mac OS X is a mixture of open and closed source interfaces so its not as black and white as for example "Windows vs Linux".
I'd agree that Linux is a great fit for making usable machines out of old hardware, especially servers. That's a specific niche where Linux is certainly a good fit I'll agree.
Here we go again! Apple stock just hit another all time high today of $193.70, and the trading day is not done yet. Update: the market high was $194.99. I just cannot believe that it is going so high before the Quarterly Earnings announcement.
Just wait to see how high the stock goes during and just after MWSF. Then after Apple's huge earnings are announced the end of January, the stock should go up again by a bunch.
Just wait to see how high the stock goes during and just after MWSF. Then after Apple's huge earnings are announced the end of January, the stock should go up again by a bunch.