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Having Mac shipments drop only 3% in an over the year quarter when
the economy is in the tank is news. Of course the news isn't the drop,
it's the fact that in a soft economy it ONLY dropped 3%. I can hear the
old song of Apple's going to quit begin to ramp up in the wings.
Well, the fat lady hasn't sung yet.
As for the prospect of cheaper laptops with OS X and an Apple logo on
them, I suspect that is not where Apple is going. Macs have never
been a commodity box and most likely never will. My suspicion is that
Apple will redefine the 'notebook' genre much in the same way it
redefined mp3 players and the music industry. Oh yeah, and smart
phones.
Apple has, at least since he return of Jobs, pushed innovation in new
directions rather than follow it. I think one of the pushes for Snow
Leopard dropping support for PPCs is, not only are the PPCs getting
long in the tooth, but Snow Leopard will have a much smaller
footprint, enabling it to run on tablets, et al.
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Market Share  dheady@... | 04/30/09
-3% compared to last years quarter when they released the Mac Air  Davewrite | 04/30/09
How dare you remind people that a drop in sales  mlindl | 04/30/09
A bit misleading  eMJayy | 04/30/09
You say PC makers not hurting? Dell down 16% MS down 32% HP down 13%  Davewrite | 05/01/09
Factual errors?  eMJayy | 05/01/09
The factual errors are you own statements not the Gartner report  Davewrite | 05/01/09
My point is about market share, not profits  eMJayy | 05/02/09
Count what you want Apple fine, more errors as you misread marketshare data  Davewrite | 05/02/09
Let's hope that the hackes will put linux on them  Linux Geek | 04/30/09
YAWN...  SimonUK2 | 04/30/09
SRSLY  urbandk | 04/30/09
On what? What are you even talking about? (nt)  Metronome49 | 05/01/09
Apple doesn't do market share gains  mlindl | 04/30/09
Religion and snobbery  Economister | 04/30/09
I think you're just jealous. [nt]  olePigeon | 04/30/09
similarly...  benardquek@... | 04/30/09
And my experience is just the opposite...  Confused by religion | 04/30/09
This morning...  SimonUK2 | 05/01/09
Then you saw...  wolf_z | 05/01/09
Probably...  fairportfan | 05/01/09
And you almost sounded well thought out and reasonable:(  James Quinn | 04/30/09
Yawn...  SimonUK2 | 05/01/09
Who are these cultists?  Metronome49 | 05/01/09
Here's a possible example  brble | 05/01/09
Cause and Effect  urbandk | 04/30/09
It should be easy.  ashdude | 04/30/09
One simple change is no change  Ken_z | 04/30/09
No, they won't.  Dealing | 05/01/09
Just like auto companies  Roger Ramjet | 05/01/09
Not sure taking one's cues from the Wall Street  James Quinn | 05/01/09
Yeah, right NT  wolf_z | 05/01/09
RE: Apple may introduce cheaper Macs for market share  Gis Bun | 05/01/09

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