____/ Rick on Thursday 24 April 2008 15:13 : \____
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:46:22 -0400, Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:57:44 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Thursday 24 April 2008 13:06 :
>>> \____
>>>
>>>> <Quote>
>>>> Signs of a consumer slowdown abound in the United States, but Apple
>>>> customers appear not to have noticed.
>>>>
>>>> Buoyed by unusually strong Macintosh sales, the company grew notably
>>>> faster than the rest of the computer market worldwide in the first
>>>> three months of the year. Revenue increased 43 percent from the same
>>>> period a year ago...
>>>>
>>>> Apple shipped 2.3 million Mac computers in the quarter, 51 percent
>>>> more than in the quarter a year ago. Revenue on those computers
>>>> increased 54 percent....
>>>> </Quote>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/technology/24apple.html
>>>>
>>>> Mac sales up 51% over a year ago. That's taking food from Ballmer's
>>>> plate! He won't like that!
>>>>
>>>> Stock is up since slump in January, too. Today vs 1 year ago (source:
>>>> Yahoo finance):
>>>>
>>>> MSFT 31.45 (today), 28.79 (1 yr ago), up 9% AAPL 162 (today), 93 (1
>>>> yr ago), up 74%
>>>>
>>>> Guess Ray Lopez 0.999 should have invested in Apple. Too bad.
>>>
>>> Market diversity is good. If only Apple was not Microsoft's b* when it
>>> comes to fonts, patents, OOXML, etc.
>>
>> Face it Schestowitz, people who don't like Microsoft or Windows are
>> moving to Apple.
>
> Still obsessed with Roy, I see.
>
>>
>> They are *not* moving to Linux, which is very odd considering Linux is
>> free and Apple is expensive.
>>
>> So what's the reason?
>
> Lack of advertising, herd mentality, network effects and inertia.
Not every sector has use for Macs, let alone afford to buy new PCs.
In today's news:
Deploying KDE to 52 million young people
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| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
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> People want what everyone else has. Apple has always been visible. It has
> always had a visibility in schools and many industries and has always
> been know as a "personal" computer company. So... as more people by Macs
> from Apple, more people want Macs, and more people buy them. Apple also
> has that iPod <-> Mac halo going for it.
Apple has attraction in the west, which is an affluent minority of the world.
How many Mac users exist in China? Or for that matter -- how many can afford a
Vista-capable PC?
Those believing that Macs can take over 'the world' are the same type of people
who believe a $5000+ surface PC will be a hit at times of recession and mobile
devices fever.
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