Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Tue 14th Sep 2004 19:52 UTC
Apple is holding their European Expo and nowadays being a Mac owner thought I'd go along. If Apple has such a pitiful market share then you'd expect it to be a small show with little software and few visitors. Er No, this was the complete opposite. Pictures of the Expo included.
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"If Apple has such a pitiful market share then you'd expect it to be a small show with little software and few visitors."
no i wouldnt say that. for a company with 20 or 30 million clients, almost all of them in north america, europe, and japan, it isnt hard to find many thousands willing to go to an event. what an odd thing to write.
"Microsoft had a stand showing off Office X but the Microsoft logo was conspicuous by the fact it was so small, I'd expect a huge logo somewhere but all you had was the office X component logos and Microsoft written in fairly small writing at the edge, it's as if they were embarrassed to say their name!"
another ridiculous troll. the product is being promoted. apple must be ashamed of their name for using just a logo on their itunes ads too huh? micrsoft has one the most recognized brand names in the world. and it is also one of the most respected...but not much by apple mac fanatics that forget that ms made software for macs back when apple was much larger and much more profitable than ms. they also forget that ms gave them large sums of money to bail them out when they were in deep financial trouble in 1997. oh how fickle mac users are.
"Mac's aren't really a gamers computer but there are plenty of games out there if you want them. Games also had their own area with a row of G5s set up all with different games. There was also a games tournament going on which was constantly surrounded by a crowd of people. I don't know what the game was but it looked pretty impressive."
understatement of the year! "Mac's aren't really a gamers computer"....no wonder people were crowded around in awe at a mac playing games.
"A couple of years back Macs were expensive and under powered, these days OS X is considerably faster as are the newer G5 CPUs, you can get cheaper PCs but the price seems pretty much in line with other A list computer vendors who are the real competition. Of course they don't include the iLife suite. "
a few years ago you could buy an imac for $800 and now the cheapest is $1300. Pretty much in line with A list computer vendors? what does that mean? the average pc maker doesnt need to put 2 cpus in a box for respectable performance. "A" list workstation makers have products that are still less expensive than mac towers.
"(actually they were growing market share last time I heard)"
simply not true. take a look at any of apples sec filings for total mac sales and compare to the broader market for pcs and you see their share continues to go down. recent quarters have them selling more macs compared to their own sales figures in more distant quarters but they are not growing as fast as the overall pc market in 2004.
"Also, with the PC market stagnating"
funny all the stats i see show the pc market growing by 15-20% this year.