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Grim Macintosh Market Share Forebodes Crisis | |
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| Time: 13:48 EST/18:48 GMT | News Source: PC Magazine | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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The Mac platform is essentially stagnant. That becomes obvious when you look at the declining market share numbers—not from research firms, but from the W3C, which monitors online activity. As of December 2004, the Mac share as measured by online activity is 2.7 percent (Linux is 3.1), with all the rest going to various flavors of Windows. I'm now convinced that this stems mostly from Apple's inability to make the Mac a commodity computer by pricing it to compete with PCs made inexpensively in China and selling with razor-thin margins. Here are the reasons Apple can't sustain its position. | ||
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| #1 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 12/29/2004 6:01:40 PM |
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Dvorak doesn't disappoint with yet another largely nonsensical article. But I have to agree with him about this:
I also count an odd, die-hard faction of true believers, but these people are inconsequential except in online forums, where they make a fuss whenever anyone discusses the Mac. They probably hurt the Mac community more than anyone by creating an unfair crackpot image that gets associated with the machine. Where's sodajerk when you need him? :P |
| #2 By 8556 (12.217.111.74) at 12/29/2004 10:33:08 PM |
| Steve Jobs doesn't care much about market share. He cares about profits. Apple is doing fine and will continue to do so for many years, even though it has a "small" market share of millions of users. |
| #3 By 7797 (63.76.44.6) at 12/30/2004 8:37:52 AM |
| I think its sad to think that Parkker will still be manufacturing FUD posts in 2 years. |
| #4 By 61 (65.32.168.114) at 12/30/2004 12:43:26 PM |
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Perhaps Apple should merely have the Macintosh name be a specification that 3rd party manufactures have to build to in order to call their system Macintosh.
Completely drop making their towers. Keep up with the iMac and their notebook lines. |
| #5 By 12071 (203.217.26.160) at 12/31/2004 10:01:31 PM |
| #12 $125 monthly updates, the FUD he comes up with is truly breathtaking.... just remember Parkker's motto is "Don't let the truth get in the way of a good argument.". |
| #6 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 1/1/2005 2:13:50 AM |
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"I think it is optimistic to think Apple will still be manufacturing desktop computers in 2 years."
A charter member of the original "The Mac Is Dead" group, I suppose... TL |
| #7 By 7754 (65.27.87.2) at 1/2/2005 1:44:36 AM |
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It's possible to make these changes available for Windows 2000.... If MS plans on supporting that OS, I do expect it.
It's possible to make these changes to Windows 98, too, so what exactly would satisfy you? (And XP came out within the support period for Windows 98.) Then should Apple backport many of the fundamental changes to the OS in OS X to OS 9, too? By your standard, it's possible. If MS plans on supporting that OS, I do expect it. There is quite a double-standard here. There were lots of changes to the OS from 2000 to XP--including many new features and several applications. (Several other new features and applications/application updates were introduced for free as well--Photo Story, Movie Maker, etc., but that's besides this point.) So, you don't expect Apple to provide those updates for free, but you do expect it for Microsoft? Hey, if Apple can get away with charging for every new OS X update, more power to them, but don't try to compare it to updates for XP... because all of them thus far have been FREE. |
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