____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Friday 31 August 2007 23:16 : \____
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>> Apple sells one in six US laptops
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>> | Apple was the US' third biggest retail laptop vendor in June, market
>> | watcher NPD has revealed. The Mac maker is behind only HP and Toshiba, but
>> | ahead of Dell, Gateway and Lenovo.
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>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/08/29/us_laptop_sales_june/
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> Of course Apple's installation base and their share of recent sales
> are different. I had read somewhere that overall, laptop sales now
> exceed desktops. The article above isn't counting desktops, but Apple
> sells those, too. Looks like their share of recent sales is higher
> than their share of the installed base, and is growing (13% to 16% in
> last few months). Not a good trend for Microsoft. I see a lot of
> positive comments from people who have switched to OS/X, and I've
> never seen one going the other way. Probably exist of course, and
> when the Microsoft propaganda ministry gets around to it, there will
> probably be lots of such "stories". In the meantime, we live in
> interesting times.
I can't recall the story and I can't think of a way to find it quickly (I
posted this to COLA and I think Pogue covered it), but Microsoft got caught
(in Slashdot I think) doing a marketing stunt... something called "confession
of a Mac user" (a headline that goes along these lines).
The gist: Microsoft used one of its arms (IIRC, one that is related to
the "letters from dead people" and "Tux penguins and Al Gore" video) to fake a
story about someone moving from Mac OS to Windows.
Unethical. Crooks in suits.
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