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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"Apple has maintained a 3 million plus in Macs sold year to year these last few years. The Apple Stores have claimed that %50 of their sales go to new (previous Windows) users."
actually, those two things together seem to say that people are leaving the platform about as fast as they arrive (to maintain the recent 3m rate, down from the highs of iirc 4.5m).
i think it is likely that they are trading users at this point. value shoppers have probably gone to dells, and some new affluent buyers have arrived to might the high-end products.
but this niche will have to move too. combine a slightly better linux (or 64 bit windows) with a slightly faster opteron and the G5 stops looking so extreme.
it might become a bit of history repeating itself, as apple waits for the g6 to move them upmarket again ... or?
i wonder what happens when the pc side gets fast, cheap, and supported 64-bit machines ....