I agree it is good. But the result has been the horrible mess that is Windows 8/8.1. They came up with something new but it is far from exciting.
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I agree it is good. But the result has been the horrible mess that is Windows 8/8.1. They came up with something new but it is far from exciting.
And upgrading the Windows Genuine Advantage so it can make your Windows stop being genuine randomly.
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Maybe the people who use computers for more advanced stuff should band together and try to keep people away from tablets. Fast PCs are cheap right now because they're mass produced because so many people use them. Once people move away, they'll become specialty items and skyrocket in price.
Figures show a decline in sales in every market that Apple is in. For Google and Microsoft there is growth, so while Apple is dominant in the tablets sector they were still in decline over this period. This isn't good for Apple.
Shareholders want growth. If Apple are still increasing profits they are ok for now, the revenue is no doubt a different story.
The simple fact is Apple will never dominate these markets because their price point is too high and the 5C is a prime example of how Apple don't get this.
I like their products and I hope they don't wait until Steve Jobs is cloned in an artificial womb before they get their pricing right, because they can loose. Every company in history that showed complacency towards their competitors has died out. IMHO market domination is entirely about numbers and not $.
And OSX isn't better than Windows or anything else for that matter, it's just as confusing and difficult to get used to as windows. Some technical issues are just as painful to diagnose and difficult to resolve. Chrome book is as simple as it gets. If all you do is surf and type it's a great proposition and for people who only surf and type, getting a Macbook is nothing more than a fashion statement, like having an upmarket car on your drive or designer handbag.
Shareholders want growth. If Apple are still increasing profits they are ok for now, the revenue is no doubt a different story.
The simple fact is Apple will never dominate these markets because their price point is too high and the 5C is a prime example of how Apple don't get this.
I like their products and I hope they don't wait until Steve Jobs is cloned in an artificial womb before they get their pricing right, because they can loose. Every company in history that showed complacency towards their competitors has died out. IMHO market domination is entirely about numbers and not $.
And OSX isn't better than Windows or anything else for that matter, it's just as confusing and difficult to get used to as windows. Some technical issues are just as painful to diagnose and difficult to resolve. Chrome book is as simple as it gets. If all you do is surf and type it's a great proposition and for people who only surf and type, getting a Macbook is nothing more than a fashion statement, like having an upmarket car on your drive or designer handbag.
Nice stats...
But some details would be needed, don't you think?
- What exactly are commercial channels sales?
- How much of Apple sales are done through those "commercial channels"?
- Are those commercial channels sales, sales to end user or sales to restock?
Next...
- Those are from november 2012 to november 2013...
The iPad mini was released in in october 2012, an refreshed in november 2013.
The iPad ret was refreshed in october 2012 too, an refreshed as the iPad Air in november 2013.
Is the fact that the release of new and refreshed models outside of npd window important?
But some details would be needed, don't you think?
- What exactly are commercial channels sales?
- How much of Apple sales are done through those "commercial channels"?
- Are those commercial channels sales, sales to end user or sales to restock?
Next...
- Those are from november 2012 to november 2013...
The iPad mini was released in in october 2012, an refreshed in november 2013.
The iPad ret was refreshed in october 2012 too, an refreshed as the iPad Air in november 2013.
Is the fact that the release of new and refreshed models outside of npd window important?
Engineers can't upgrade their own RAM? Man, higher education is in the dumpster these days.
Sounds like you'd rather be exploited by multiple companies.
I don't find Google, Apple, MS or the rest, any more or less malevolent, they're all just in it for a buck. They'd sell you down the river (or up the NSA) in a minute, if it helped the bottom line.
Because you're subconsciously biased and noticing the Apple users more, Apple users tend to use their Macs in public more or any combination of a dozen other reasons.
Wow, that's a pretty big stretch to make Apple users sound so noble.
I doubt such an apt analogy have been composed on a lowly Chromebook, it takes the finish and quality of a Macbook to crank out prose like that, although a 29¢ ball point pen might have pulled it off as well.
The funny thing is... Apple will sell more devices this year than they did last year. Isn't that growth? They're selling every iPhone they can make... roughly 500,000 every day. Why can't anyone be happy about that?
So... market domination is entirely about numbers.
Well guess what... Samsung will be dominating the smartphone market for a loooong time.
Bad news for Apple, huh?
But... that should also be bad news for Huawei, Lenovo, LG and the dozen other manufacturers, right? They'll never sell as many phones as Samsung either... so why doesn't anyone dump all over them?
If you want numbers... I'm guessing Apple will report 55 million iPhones sold over the Holiday quarter. And like you say... they are rather expensive phones.
Isn't that better than Huawei selling 25 million mid to low-end phones? Or are you gonna gang up a bunch of unrelated companies that all happen to be selling phones running Google's operating system... and compare all those to Apple?
That's what I never understood about market share. They compare Apple (a single company) to a collection of a dozen Android manufacturers.
That would be like comparing Subway to ALL the fast food hamburger restaurants combined.
Yep! I believe that's Fanboy talking point #244A
"I haven't seen one" is the preferred method of measuring competitors sales on Mac Fan Boards. If actual numbers indicate that a competitor's machine is actually outselling Apple's product, use Fanboy Talking Point #244B and say something like "That's shipped, not sales! The numbers for the gorgeous, magical and elegant Macs are actual sales. Everyone else lies except Tim & Jony, they really care about us"...
i wouldnt hold much in the comparison between macbook and windows laptop/chromebook.
Macbook (pro), in general, are much more expensive than windows laptops so of course there are going to be fewer people buying them. Another big reason is that 90+% people are still window users.
Macbook is never going to out-sell windows machine. Apple knows this too.
Macbook (pro), in general, are much more expensive than windows laptops so of course there are going to be fewer people buying them. Another big reason is that 90+% people are still window users.
Macbook is never going to out-sell windows machine. Apple knows this too.
Market share is very important for investors as it's usually a sign of platform dominance. And dominance helps you to escape price competition (however, doesn't apply to Apple as they've found their own niche). Furthermore platform dominance attracts developers.
Apple had an impressive growth due to clever marketing, good products and adequate pricing in the 2000s and now it's on its peak. It already lost huge parts of its innovative power and sells its products at a price point that's no longer competitive. People are just not willed to pay 1000s of dollars for a PC or notebook, and the same will happen to the smartphone market, where the iPhone and the iPad are too expensive (which isn't that bad, as the overall price is affordable for many). So it might be shrinking again over the next years.
Would be nice if the "de-facto standard" ran on more than 6% of the world's computers.
I run an IT infrastructure team and the reality is for us that we will be using MS products for a very long time to come, so they won't become niche overnight. I see all this as a rebalancing between the sectors, MS got too big, Apple is nowhere near that (except arguably in tablets).
As for the Genuine Advantage stuff I have never seen it since the old XP days but then we have all Windows 7 at work.
No you can't, but there are now some really great aps and plugins available for ChromeOS and more coming every day. You can find them on Google Play. Anyway, its actually a lot more than just websurfing and email...don't believe the haters and try one for yourself.
Also, its super easy to run Linux in parallel if you want to fill in the gaps with offline capabilities.
The target market are the people who figured out that netbooks, while being small and cheap, are actually rubbish. So they are trying out something else that is small and cheap and not a netbook, in the hope that it isn't rubbish.
I will never understand why people make claims like yours, do you have to bash anything that it is not Apple?
And not taking into account that you can´t be more wrong. But you know that
You know that the iPad was not the first tablet ? It was just better done and came at a time when the required technology to build and use these devices was available.
It's the same with those netbooks from the 2000s and the Chrome. Wireless and 3G/4G is a commodity now, but it wasn't 8 years ago (availability, price, bandwidth).
Considering the MacBook Air actually, you know, DOES something and is not a glorified data trap for your personal information.
Honestly, I love how Google fans are just trying to lower the bar for Google so much that they think a niche product with a niche set of fans is somehow this great big success.
Chromebooks are essentially WebTV 2.0. Nothing more, nothing less. You get it because you don't know any better.