If they're replacing hardware, wouldn't the impact on market share be the same as if they just kept the old hardware?
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If they're replacing hardware, wouldn't the impact on market share be the same as if they just kept the old hardware?
I hope that was a jokeBut in case it wasn't...
Virus writers are not ignoring OS X at all. Going down in history as the creator of the first "real" virus for OS X is more than enough to get people trying. It hasn't happened because OS X is relatively secure and has sensible default services running.
You are living in the dreamworld.
First of all, OSX is as full of exploitable bugs as any other OS out there. The bigger the code the bigger number of bugs, there is NO bug-free code out there. Look at iPhone which runs OSX and its hacks.
Secondly, Windows is fairly secure OS by itself today, one of the main infection mechanisms today are viruses which are DELIBERATELY executed by idiots using computers. People become very stupid when you promise them a x-mas e-card or naked pics. Trust me, they will input their password and give the virus full root access to OSX.
I, too, am still a PC user (since the dark, er, DOS days), but come January 15th (and hell, high water, or no new Mac Pro news), I *will* be buying my first Mac.
Frankly, I'm just sick and tired of "dealing" with Windows. I'm a Linux user from way back ('92 or '93), so the UNIX underpinnings of OS X interest me. Not having to deal with viruses and spyware (or the CPU-sucking cycles of software needed to prevent them) is a huge plus, as well as my recent change in focus on using the computer to begin with (i.e. I've taken up using Photoshop and Lightroom as some of the main things I do with my computer - I don't really play games anymore, except for MAME, which I know is available for the Mac.)
I also consider a Mac an actual investment because of the cost (Mac Pro = big $$$), but it's a machine I won't likely need to upgrade for many years (especially with 8 cores...even Photoshop CS3 doesn't take advantage of THAT many yet, I don't think.) -- With a PC, you can buy the components cheap and get some good deals, but at the end of the useful life, you either make incremental upgrades or (more likely) just throw the damned thing away (or sell it to a friend for a few bucks - that's all it's worth.)
Macs, on the other hand, have (what I've seen) relatively crazy resale value, where you might actually make back nearly half of your original cost (sometimes slightly more) if it's a good system, loaded with features (and RAM.))
So I can't wait...only 2 more weeks until I'll be ordering my new system!
-Bryan
Frankly, I'm just sick and tired of "dealing" with Windows. I'm a Linux user from way back ('92 or '93), so the UNIX underpinnings of OS X interest me. Not having to deal with viruses and spyware (or the CPU-sucking cycles of software needed to prevent them) is a huge plus, as well as my recent change in focus on using the computer to begin with (i.e. I've taken up using Photoshop and Lightroom as some of the main things I do with my computer - I don't really play games anymore, except for MAME, which I know is available for the Mac.)
I also consider a Mac an actual investment because of the cost (Mac Pro = big $$$), but it's a machine I won't likely need to upgrade for many years (especially with 8 cores...even Photoshop CS3 doesn't take advantage of THAT many yet, I don't think.) -- With a PC, you can buy the components cheap and get some good deals, but at the end of the useful life, you either make incremental upgrades or (more likely) just throw the damned thing away (or sell it to a friend for a few bucks - that's all it's worth.)
Macs, on the other hand, have (what I've seen) relatively crazy resale value, where you might actually make back nearly half of your original cost (sometimes slightly more) if it's a good system, loaded with features (and RAM.))
So I can't wait...only 2 more weeks until I'll be ordering my new system!
-Bryan
Apple only has to dominate the smartphone industry and that 50% does not look too out of reach. The next generation of smart phones will effectively be 'proper' computers, this year the line between mobile/computer will be blurred .
FAR more Mobiles than Computers are sold. And the mobile industry will be a pushover for apple.
Thanks for the insightful analysis, Mr. Ballmer. I'd ask you to remind us of all those reasons the iPhone will fail but I don't want any chairs flying around.
I doubt whether Apple will ever hit 50% smartphone marketshare. Whilst Apple does exclusivity with carriers, there's no way that iPhone will get above 10%. At the moment, there are two other barriers - upfront high cost of phone AND high contract prices. But you say, the iPod still got successful despite its high price? Yes, it did, but cell phones are in a different market - people don't want to pay $$$ upfront with high contract price on top.
Anyway, 7% marketshare is great, but Apple still needs much more!
What a great post. You will enjoy your Macs (I pluralize as there will be more ...).
One thing I always think is that I'd rather have both a MacBook and an iMac for the same $s as a high end MacBook Pro unless I really had to have that much power when on the road.
However I agree on video card for iMac too. I have long used high end Mac Desktops but to be honest I would get to an iMac with the big screen but for that. Perhaps that's the reason Apple keep it held back but frankly the CPU differences in the high end desktops should be enough to differentiate the two lines so please Apple let's have a kick ass video card in a high end iMac as an option
Well, not all of us have good memories and/or good in math
, but when you said 7 years, the 7 years rang a bell. My G4 is 7 years old this month and the G5 model introduction was a few years down the road. Your G5 dual 2.0 started shipping in Sept. of 2003.I normally don't go this long between computer purchases, but I was ready to buy a G5 in the Summer of 2005, but then Jobs announced the shift to Intel. When the Mac Pro came out in August of 2006, I decided to wait until Rev. B (?) of the Mac Pro and here I sit. Do I NEED an Apple tower's power? No, but I like to be able to add my own memory and hard drives and to "look under the hood" whenever I like without having to take the case apart with tools.
I hope your joking. How many security updates were their last year for OS X? ... you do know that by default the OS X firewall isn't even on.
Anything can be hacked. Don't go for this "We are safer" because you will end up eating those words sooner or later.
Anything can be hacked. Don't go for this "We are safer" because you will end up eating those words sooner or later.
I hope that was a joke
Virus writers are not ignoring OS X at all. Going down in history as the creator of the first "real" virus for OS X is more than enough to get people trying. It hasn't happened because OS X is relatively secure and has sensible default services running.
True but I've also seen a lot of MacBooks that have the logo covered... I doubt they are paid.
In these commercials or TV programs, Apple has no involvement, the production company is just using the machine it sees as most aesthetically pleasing, generally anywhere the logo is covered it is more about the design. But I'm guessing it does have a good effect on Apple as there are not many similar machines, designed so.
Hrmz... Honestly, the data doesn't say that much. First of all, how is marketshare measured? Of consumers? Coorps? Usa? World?
Second, what I really wonder is what percentage of hardware was replaced during the period of the 1% market increase. If, say, 2% was replaced, then the 50% of all hardware sold were macs. If, assuming a two month period for the 1% increase and an average lifetime of a pc of 3 years, then ca. 6% of the computers was replaced. The 1% percent increase then means that roughly one in six of all computers sold were macs. Which is massive.
Anyway, without data on the "replacement rate" over that period, the numbers don't say that much.
Second, what I really wonder is what percentage of hardware was replaced during the period of the 1% market increase. If, say, 2% was replaced, then the 50% of all hardware sold were macs. If, assuming a two month period for the 1% increase and an average lifetime of a pc of 3 years, then ca. 6% of the computers was replaced. The 1% percent increase then means that roughly one in six of all computers sold were macs. Which is massive.
Anyway, without data on the "replacement rate" over that period, the numbers don't say that much.
Two people have asked this now, and I don't understand how you can read the article and not know the answer.
It is web site visitors to a broad sample of web sites. Period.
Does the site have any data on the replacement rate of hardware/computers over that period? IE, what percentage of computers got replaced by a new machine in that period. I couldn't find it that easily, but that could be me.
Well, okay. I use Macs for my practice, but I do that by working around some limitations and using Bootcamp/Parallels as needed. But most of the law practice management software used today -- things like ProLaw or Amicus Attorney -- are Window-only. Even worse, they interwork only with MS Office products and protocols. Also, they interwork with WordPerfect as that's actually the platform used still by many attorneys and law offices. Hot Docs and ProDoc live on Windows PCs, to say nothing of the billing software that gets lawyers paid.
As things become web-based (Westlaw, Lexis), it gets easier to do this work in OS X. But the problem is that as some of the more popular case management software heads to the web, it's done under the .NET framework and is not open/standards compliant.
And even if you hung out all day at the law library, you couldn't practice law today without some kind of computer in your office. Courts require certain font types, sizes, and other formatting that the good ol' IBM Selectric just isn't capable of rendering.
All of that said, I'm glad to see Apple gaining market share. We shouldn't look down our noses at people who use Apple hardware and software, but sometimes have to do so with a session of Windows running in a virtual machine.
