Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Oct 2007 21:01 UTC
Apple sold 1.1 million iPhones during its fourth quarter, the company said in its results statement on Monday. This brought total sales of the iPhone to 1.39 million since its launch and pushed the company's revenue to USD 6.22m (GBP 3.04m) for the quarter. The good news was not solely to do with the iPhone, however, as the company also reported shipping 2.1 million Mac computers, representing 34 percent growth over the fourth quarter of 2006. Apple 'exceeded the previous quarterly record for Mac shipments by 400,000', the company said in the statement. Additionally, News.com tries to look beyond the marketing.
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2006-06-28
>>>>There are limits to what Apple can do.
True, but who cares. Back in 80's or 90's PCs open platforms mattered more than now because at that time an OS didn't come with so many goodies. So people had to buy lot of software from other companies. And also in those days most of the computer purchases were for work, productivity related.
>>> To me what is more important are open platforms (like the PC)
Nowadays fair share of computers are bought for personal use. For personal use you hardly need any extra software that doesn't come pre-installed, and even if you require something (not pre-installed) to get a task done, a solution is available most probably for free. Also companies like MS and adobe port their apps to Mac, and it covers lot of base in terms of must required software. So these days more people are getting OS-agnostic.
All this helps Apple because they produce good looking & better built (I say) computers than their competitors.
Edited 2007-10-25 00:13