Linked by Aaron Vegh on Wed 5th May 2004 19:37 UTC
Is there no larger contingent of armchair corporate CEOs than Apple fanatics? Let's examine the so-called wealth of opinion out there and see how it measures up.
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"computers. they are already on the verge of being relegated to a niche machine. 1.8% of current sales worldwide is niche."
In this regard, you are speaking off them as strictly a hardware manufacturer, yes?
1.8% worldwide is not niche. It is sixth place. Dell and HP lead. IBM, Gateway-eMachines, and Toshiba follow. Then Apple. Everyone besides Dell adn HP are in single digits for marketshare %. And all other vendors are in the fractions of a percent.
"10.1 was not free unless you met certain circumstances."
Yeah, if you owned 10.0. Oooh... what horrible requirements. Did you expect it to be free if you hadn't bought 10.0?
"Apple did not provide it for download free. You had to pay 19.99 to order a cd or some select retailers got a limited distribuition of discs they could give out for free.
that did not help folks living in areas with no access to a store that had them...or the folks that made it to a store after they ran out of the free copies."
What are you blabbering about? Something from almost 3 years ago that was very equitable is going to kill Apple's future? Whatever.