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| 538411 | 2007-04-08 08:59:00 | Well each to their own Metla. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 538412 | 2007-04-08 22:28:00 | Well each to their own Metla.Despite him not putting it exactly succinctly, I reckon Metz summed it up pretty well. | Greg (193) | ||
| 538413 | 2007-04-08 22:59:00 | For most of it, yes, except for Metla's comment about Mac numbers not growing anymore. They have had steady unit sales since their Christmas quarter peak meaning they haven't dropped off like previous years which means they are still selling around 1.5 - 2.0 million units a quarter (mainly laptops). That may not be as much as HP or Asus but it doesn't count as a decline in sales. Adobe have just released CS3 for Mac with the Vista version due out later in the year and Intel have just released their Quad Core cpu for top end Mac Pros. I would expect Vista sales to pick up towards the end of the year as more companies start to upgrade or replace some of their desktops and laptops for their execs. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 538414 | 2007-04-08 23:08:00 | The point was that even when XP was unusable for millions of people(The blaster virus was a big hit) including many in the catagories you listed Mac sales still didn't raise in any substantial numbers. Granted this was probally due to the hardware/performance being utter crap and the price being a sad sad joke. But I for one would have expected the Linux and Mac platform to grow in leaps and bounds during this period. What has changed since then is the hardware has improved (but only by using PC components) and the price is a little more realistic though still consumed by the tosser facator....as is their advertising. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 538415 | 2007-04-08 23:29:00 | But I for one would have expected the Linux and Mac platform to grow in leaps and bounds during this period. Your probably not the only person expecting that Metla, although from what I have read elsewhere it would seem that Apple's approach is more based on steady sustainable increasing sales built mainly on the US education (schools and universities), TV broadcasting, engineering, music and home user markets with an eventual move into the corporate market when enough of the college grads have taken their Mac books into their professions. That is what keeps them profitable and the accountants happy. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 538416 | 2007-04-08 23:44:00 | Apples approach should have had nothing to do with it, The driving factor for change would/should have been the poor performance of the windows platform. Just like the old saying about Politicians, They don't win elections, Their opponents lose them. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 538417 | 2007-04-09 00:30:00 | Apples approach should have had nothing to do with it, The driving factor for change would/should have been the poor performance of the windows platform. Changing a PC users mind set from something they are familiar with to something completely new is not always easy and probably not something that you could do quickly. This analyst report might explain a few other things regarding Apple's sales plans for the US market. "Investment Research firm UBS said Monday it believes Apple's expanding relationship with major US consumer electronics retailers is likely to branch out further, producing positive long term effects on Mac sales. Analyst Ben Reitzes, who maintains a Buy rating and $124 price target on shares of the Cupertino-based Mac maker, informed clients in a research note of Best Buy's decision to expand its Mac pilot from 58 stores currently to approximately 200 by this fall. "During Apple's earnings call in [January], management stated that it was evaluating the results of its relationship with Best Buy and deciding how to proceed with the relationship," he wrote. "We believe the Best Buy expansion is a positive for Mac sales long term." Reitzes said recent checks indicate that Mac sales "held up well" during Apple's fiscal second quarter of 2007, ended March, and could be poised for acceleration alongside the successive launches of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Adobe's Creative Suite 3 bundles later this spring. The analyst estimates Mac unit shipments grew 34 percent year-over-year during the quarter to 1.5 million units. His models for the full fiscal years of 2007 and 2008 call for Mac units to grow 27 percent and 25 percent to 6.7 million units and 8.4 million units, respectively. "We are also optimistic about additional new Mac products and Apple's potential to expand relationships with Best Buy and Circuit City even further," he added." I don't expect Apple to change its tv advertising style anytime soon. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 538418 | 2007-04-09 00:46:00 | ***, Im not reading that dribble, Why the hell would you even post it? | Metla (12) | ||
| 538419 | 2007-04-09 01:00:00 | Well I posted it in response to this comment: But I for one would have expected the Linux and Mac platform to grow in leaps and bounds during this period. So I guess the answer would be they they continue to grow but not in leaps and bounds since that has never been their intention and probably never will be. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 538420 | 2007-04-09 01:08:00 | LMFAO. You must be a soft touch, Marketing swell is worthless, The market is bigger, Volumes have to be up just to retain market share. And I love the twisted logic, Apple failed to captilise on the faiulure of the market leader because,...wait for it...here it is...They never intended to. PURE FREAKIN GENIUS. |
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