People finally realizing PC is for business Mac is for home
MacTruck said:
Ok demographic man. You have obviously lost sleep here so I will allow you to lose some more. Do this math.
Based on your own admission no large company will ever use all macs. Sooo at those all up. Every large corporation in the world. Count the employees. Now add up all the schools which have gone away from macs and will not return. Add up every elementary, middle and high school, ohh throw in every college and all its students. I'll let you have VT not that they will be allowed to spend another $5 million on macs ever again after this one. They had to switch twice already. Now what do you have added up yet???? So we are looking at the following using macs.
Movie studios, total macs maybe 5000 macs.
Graphic shops use half macs mostly.
Consumers that just play. Add those up.
Now which ones that won't use macs will use macs in 2 yrs and which ones that use macs now won't use them in 2 yrs. I would say it evens out there. Now what is the current mac market share?
Got your answer? No go.
I think a lot of people are finally realizing what I've believed for years. Windows is fine for businesses, but Mac OS is much better suited for home use than Windows is. I thought of the digital hub idea several years before Apple came out with it...I always thought that it was the perfect idea for Apple.
I was torn back in '95 when I was shopping for my first computer. Mac or PC. I went back and forth. Finally decided on Mac, practically on a flip of a coin. So glad I made that decision.
I have to use a PC at work occasionally. I only stay on it for as short a period as possible. It isn't very enjoyable, very utilitarian, very sterile and generic looking. Ugly little x's in the corners of every window. The desktop cluttered with all kinds of icons, all lined up in rows. Very plain looking.
I use my Mac at home for video and photo editing. Nice Cinema Display...the graphics are incredible. Just one look and there is no comparison. Windows looks so archaic in comparison.
A lot of people I work with used to be Mac users. They tell me they "went over to the dark side." I hear a lot of them now talking about coming back to Apple. I think people go into the Apple stores and are blown away by the look and feel.
I had a friend visiting me from Seattle, Microsoft's back yard...and he took one look at my 17" powerbook and fell in love. We went straight to the Apple store and he bought one. We email each other and he thanks me repeatedly for introducing him to Macs. He says he can't believe the difference. He is so happy. He says that he has shown his powerbook to other friends in Seattle who have daughters starting college. Many of the daughters are wanting Apple computers for school according to my friend. They have ipods, love them, and now they want macs. He says even the parents are thinking of getting one when they see his powerbook.
I think Apple is going to grow way past the 5% market share point. Even if all businesses use Windows...not every person who has a job uses a computer. If you work in an office and see dozens of coworkers all using computers, you think the whole world is like you. Think of all the professions who don't use computers for work. But practically everyone has or will have a computer at home.
Besides, people unfairly judge Apple's market share as 3% Apple vs 97% Windows. Well, Windows isn't a computer. Microsoft doesn't make computers. I think I heard that Dell is the leading PC maker, and if I remember correctly...their market share is something like 13%.
