Dont Hurt Me said:
Alienware is not hurting how about that boss
Alienware is a niche company that sells machines that are far more expensive than the components themselves are. In fact, as far as margins go, they're a lot like Apple, except they target the gullible people who are impressed by shiny plastic even more than Apple does.
Also, if the gaming market goes bust in the near future, as some analysts are predicting, that kills Alienware, but not Apple.
and how the heck can any of you mac lovers sit there and tell me 1% of the market is just fine.
I never said it's ideal, just that it's the situation as it stands, and not the horrible emergency that you seem to think it is. Like others have pointed out, BMW has less than 2% of the car market, but you don't see people saying that they're going out of business.
What iam saying is after Imac crt saved their corporate behinds they forgot about all those consumers. Imac Crt was a tick behind powermac, emac/Imac lcd are a joke and not even close. are you guys & girls going to stand up when it hits near 0%????
The iMac CRT was a big seller, but hardly the savior of Apple. Oh, and it's more than a little hypocritical of you to be calling for the ouster of Steve Jobs, since he was a big part of the whole iMac phenomenon... So the guy saved Apple while he was crashing it, did he?
Apple needed a new Imac last year. powermac sales though declined are matching Imac & Emac together and thats not good when you have billions of consumers. we have billions of consumers and apple is missing the mark by almost 100% and thats good?
Billions of consumers? Billions? Hardly.
I might be willing to accept that there are 500 million people in the world who could afford a truly modern computer. You seem to be expressing the same lack of basic economics that you show off in other places, since roughly two to three fifths of the wealth of the world is in America, while only about 300 million people live here. According to
the US Census Beureau, the United States population is 292,943,042, out of a total world population of 6,359,514,472. That's only 4.6% of the world possessing some 40-60% of the wealth. Let's say that there's only a billion dollars to go around, all over the world. In other words, 95.4% of the world is splitting up about the same amount of money as our 4.6% are.
There are
not billions of consumers. There are, however, billions of subsistence and poverty line dwellers.
Thatwendigo ill tell you again i dont want a cheap bunch of junk Imac but i do demand(with my dollars) a Imac G5 with good video(CARD) and will pay up to $2000 if it comes with a 17" but a G4 dont cut it.
Well, your demands aren't being fulfilled, and I don't see them being done to your satisfaction, short of some major revolution. I know that you don't want a cheap, junk iMac, but that's what you'll get if you try to cheapen the hardware too much. Apple makes margins that it needs to survive and turn a profit, while paying for one of the largest R&D departments in any OEM on the market. Short of a major revolution in the way that suppliers treat the mac market, something which I doubt even Apple could do much about, we're not goingt to see any major price drops.
Marketshare will kill Apple unless it gets turned around. Not one product has stopped this migration of new computer buyers. The money in the bank is from all those millions of Imac crt buyers.
Right... The money has nothing to do with the 100,000 G5 preorders, the consistent sales that have started falling off in the last two quarters as rumors grow more feverish and FUD-trolls like you yak it up. It doesn't have anything to do with the incredible success of the iPod, the continuing sales of the PowerBooks, or all the other computers Apple has sold since the CRTs were EOLed.
Mmmhmm.
could be and i guess thats why i havent ordered alienware(yet) but man am i close.
You haven't ordered it because you'd have to learn something new to complain about. Instead of it being Apple, you'd have to learn what was making your machine crash, how to fix the hardware incompatibilites and driver issues, the virsues that you'll inevitably get (because my opinion of your knowledge of computers isn't very high at this point), and generally make a stink of the whole thing.
You're a chronic yakker. If you don't have something to whine about, you'd have to stop making posts that said the same thing, over and over again, so that your post count would keep pumping up.
Christ, I'd be a Demi-God by now if I did the same thing you do.
most consumers wouldnt put up with Apples crappy advancement they would just go out and shop and take home the PC.
Most consumers buy Fords and Chevys, unhealthy food that they believe is good for them, don't pay attention to how a little outlay could save them trouble later, and live off of debt spending. That doesn't mean they know what they're doing.
As previously stated, numbers only mean that a larger amount of people accept something, not that they're right or that their way is better. There are more roaches than people, after all.
