This is getting old.
What is? The fact that someone else (not me..I just replied) started down the Windows vs. Mac path or that some people here can't grasp the fact that the Windows OS has killed the Mac OS in marketshare for 16+ years?
This is getting old.
Bill Gates doesn't like it?
Who would have thought that?![]()
You can't be serious. Brace for when? 2020?
1)Apple Mac/OS has been below 10% marketshare for decades.
2)Even though Apple's Macs have been selling like hotcakes for 2-5 years, the Mac and it's OS are STILL below 10% marketshare. I'm not laughing...I'm stating a fact.
3)In order for Apple to start getting some serious marketshare (20-25%), Apple will need to sell hundreds of millions of Macs...if not billions over the coming years to compete with all the Windows vendors (Dell, HP, Toshiba, Asus, Gateway, Acer, etc.). Apple is not going to sell 100 million Macs in a single year anytime soon. Apple seems to have sold about 12 million Macs in 2009...about 10 million in 2008. So even if Apple started selling Macs at 25 million a year, it would be numerous years before Apple approached the upper 25% marketshare point...and that's if Microsoft and the Windows-based personal computer industry did nothing.
4)Building on #3, my personal opinion is that unless Apple starts selling cheaper Macs, there will be far fewer people out there (marketshare) who are going to spend X on Apple when they can spend 1/3X for a Windows machine...or even 1/2X. I like the style of the iMac's...but I'm just not going to plunk down $1200+ for a computer when, for my needs (and most likely a large % of the consumers out there), I can do the same thing with a $600-$700 pc.
There's no doom and gloom in the future for Apple or its Macs...but since Macs seem to be somewhat low on the priority list for Apple (iPods, iPhones have far outsold the Mac in units for years and now Apple is trying to get this iPad to sell bazillions) I don't feel I need to "brace" for anything in the impending future.
http://theappleblog.com/2009/10/19/apple-q4-2009-3m-macs-record-profits/
-Eric
Why can't Johnny write?You've hit the nail on the head. Handwriting recognition software sucks. The only way it works is if you're writing in Japanese (which I study and teach), because it has to be written in a specific stroke order. English doesn't.
Our society promotes individuality and therefore you can write anyway you want to. I do this myself as I am left-handed and have my own unique way of writing. Japanese society promotes conformity, which has led to a stylized way of writing that works within the parameters of handwriting recognition software. Same thing for audio actually. I'll explain it if you're interested. If not carry on.![]()
The main problem with the iPad in my view is that it is solely a content consumption device and doesn't have the capability for content creation. However, I really think that the future of computers is to make them more like the iPad and less like the traditional overcomplicated OSes that us geeks grew up with.
"So, it's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.' It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'"
"There's nothing that the iPod does that I say, 'Oh, wow, I don't think we can do that.'" - Bill Gates, September 02, 2004
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It's ok, no reason to.
The answer is pretty simple. It's cheap, widely available, and a lot of people are going to want to use at home the same thing they use at work.
All made possible by Universal Licensing. Something Apple refused to do at the time.
That's 1 reason, out of many, why Windows is still the most used. And how are you defining "Universal Licensing"?
I'm not jumping up and down saying Windows is the best thing on the planet...I'm saying it has the most marketshare and has had it for decades. Even with great licensing deals, if Windows stunk, people would move on...and vendors like Dell and HP would have to make decisions if people stopped buying Windows-based computers.
Apple's OS/Mac has gained some marketshare in the past 2+ years (part of that reason is the opportunity for people who didn't want Vista to try Apple...but I'm not going to claim that was 100% of the reason like others will here) but it's still below 10% marketshare. Just stating facts. Not saying Apple's OS is bad. I, personally, would LOVE to see the Mac/OS achieve 15% or 20% marketshare...but I doubt that's going to happen by 2012 (if at all unless Apple is willing to make some game-changing decisions).
-Eric
Windows 7 was built for tablets, every version. It's optimized for it. I cannot even begin to explain how beneficial it is to have the same OS on a Table that's on your PC.
Sound more like you don't know much about MS Windows. I for one make money off how bad that OS runs, so stop trolling and giving real reliable data of how MS Windows 7 is a stable and better OS. I use it for gaming and for the most part it runs as it should as long as you are careful.
But even today I had to do a repair call after a client installed some hardware themselves and it cause Windows 7 to crash. I was not had to bring it back, but things like this are just not tolerated on Mac ecosystem. I for one expect my Mac's to come up every time I do anything with them, and if I install software or hardware I expect it to not crash and have to spend time figuring out that some DLL has been changed or some registry information has been altered and now Windows gives errors or crashes. Noob.
For me the 64gig iPad has to be like the iPhone and Snow Leopard, no down time I am not saying it will never have something go wrong, but I expect like my heart to keep beating no matter how hard I push it.
Bill Gates doesn't like it?
Who would have thought that?![]()
There's so much potential with this device, yet Apple limited its functionality.
For example, why not give it a stylus so that students could write/draw notes while in class or for artists to create a drawing?
1)Apple Mac/OS has been below 10% marketshare for decades.
2)Even though Apple's Macs have been selling like hotcakes for 2-5 years, the Mac and it's OS are STILL below 10% marketshare. I'm not laughing...I'm stating a fact.
If Apple can't make a netbook for the price their competitors are, then don't. Give us an overpriced Apple netbook - at a price that fulfills Apple's greed - what would be new?
Actually, Gates is fully correct on this one. True, a lot of people jumped out too quickly when the iPhone/Touch came out with criticism not knowing where they were headed with the App store and such but the iPad is NOT the same. There is NOTHING that is new here and it is indeed just a large Touch device that is also going to compete with the Amazon Kindle.
You've hit the nail on the head. Handwriting recognition software sucks. The only way it works is if you're writing in Japanese (which I study and teach), because it has to be written in a specific stroke order. English doesn't.
Our society promotes individuality and therefore you can write anyway you want to. I do this myself as I am left-handed and have my own unique way of writing. Japanese society promotes conformity, which has led to a stylized way of writing that works within the parameters of handwriting recognition software. Same thing for audio actually. I'll explain it if you're interested. If not carry on.![]()
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--- Agree. My heart rate is usually higher than normal when I'm on a windows system.....I want windows to have bugs and be crappy. I'm an IT guy......Oh, I just remembered, I need to go put my mac to sleep. it's been running 8 days straight now....![]()
-- -- What does marketshare have to do with "quality" of the OS? Most people I know use windows because they don't have any other choice. They aren't happy with windows, but they can't afford a Mac and aren't geek enough to use *nix or *nux. It's just that Apple chose not to compete in the low end pc. Not that it's matter, but have you check the market share for high end pc lately?
Why can't Johnny write?
I use my old Pocket PC stylus on my Nintendo DS, and it's a lot better than the one it came with. A lot. It's smoother.
The iPad is everything I did not want.
You guys out there might not use your computers for creation - watching DVD's and Facebook - but I mostly use my computers for creation. So the iPad is junk to me. I wanted an Apple netbook.
I'm sure my instant-on iToaster with Wikipedia is the solution.しらね〜よ。バカかな?じょ〜だん。(I have no idea. Is he stupid. Just kidding.)
You remind me of the comment of another Mac user in another forum who was bragging about how when he closes the lid on his macbook, the computer goes into sleep mode. I was like, "WOW." Talk about innovation.