Did "Switch" Campaign Fail?

[Sayhey]

Originally posted by yzedf
Failed. Big time.

The store is working to bring in new people, but the older die hards that bought G3's when they were the hot thing are not buying new stuff.

Apple is stagnant right now. Maybe the G5 will do something, but I doubt it.

Most likely they will stay a 2-5% market share company. They just don't know how to compete, or advertise effectively. That is fine.

Just stop telling me that OS X is going to rule the world.

OS X is going to rule the world! Sorry, couldn't resist. Seriously, I read that Apple's share in the consumer market and the education market have increased. Don't know how much of that came from the switch campaign. I do think some analysts wouldn't believe Apple was successful if the company had a 25% share. It looks like to me Apple is headed in the right direction instead of the former steady decline.

 

[idea_hamster]

Um, sorry, but -- to the extent that UNIX-based programming runs just about everything between the back of your CPU and the back of the next person's CPU, I think that it's already in control of most of what we think of as the "information age", the "dot com world", "being connected/wired/whatever".

Is OS X going to rule the world? Well, in a way, it might.

Personally, I simply *cannot wait* to see MicroChump try to cop Apple's move and cobble together a version of windows that has the same UNIX functionality. (I forsee failure.)

In the end, MicroSoft will be like the medieval fortified center of lots of modern European cities: an artifact of when monolithic stregnth was paramount but ultimately of little consequence.

 

[dswoodley]

I guess relative numbers are one thing (market share) - but does anyone have the absolute numbers? I read somewhere once that there are over 20,000,000 serviceable Macs out there. In my opinion, that is not an insignificant number.

 

[mymemory]

The problem with Apple is the price, the machines are expensive that is the botton line, period! they can last longuer, etc, etc but you are paying for that. Apple would be a good computer if you can get the same features on a PC for the same price. I can get a good PC laptop for $700.

How do you think and entire corporation is gonna change all their systems for Apple computers? never in life, is too expensive, if you are gonna have a technitian any way to fix the networks then save that money and go for PC.

Apple is cutting corners but the botton line is that Macs are too expensive, that is why I allways get 2nd hand computers, I know they are good but they cost me 1/3 of the original proce just 6 month later the new line came out and they last 2 years at list any way.

It is just a matter of common sense.