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01-04-2009, 07:59 PM
|  | living the clean life | | Join Date: Dec 2005
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Originally Posted by DennyCrane  tl;dr
Apple's market share is tiny | Apple has the third largest market share in the US, and has a huge advantage in market share growth over HP and Dell (in the US). Worldwide, is a very different thing of course.
I'm not an apple fan-boi. I just feel, for me (and personal/leisure use at that), that I would prefer a Mac. I have rarely had a problem with it. I haven't shut it down in months, and it still works fine. I boot into windows fine. I use windows ok (it's easier to use on a PC PC).
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01-04-2009, 08:00 PM
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| | | Let me be specific....
Apple computer market share is minuscule compared to PC market share.
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01-04-2009, 08:05 PM
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| | | From my experience corporate America doesn't want to change their infrastructure. And really, switch to what? We aren't just talking about desktops and what OS they run, we're talking backend processing as well. These companies didn't go with MS because they were the only game in town, they went with MS because they offer the better product, simple.
Apple doesn't sell computers really, they sell an image which is why they have never been big in the corporate/office environment (even in the early 90s). The corporate sector is results driven while the retail sector is "flash" driven. Apple doesn't have to build a superior product to thrive in the retail sector because people don't demand it.
As far as longevity goes, it's no question mate - I have Windows based servers going on 5 year installs of Windows 2003 without a hiccup. I have PCs going on 5+ year installs of XP without a hiccup. |
01-04-2009, 08:08 PM
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| | | Sure, except a little asterisk has to be placed because Apple won't let other companies have OS X, and Apple doesn't sell their computers to come with windows. So, when you have a tons of different companies offering an OS, versus one company offering one, you're most likely going to end with that result, especially since it will be cheaper than.
It would be more telling to compare them to another individual company, such as HP and Dell. They still have a paltry market share compared to those two companies, but so does the rest of the computer market in the US.
And, lol, at me being butthurt about the Dolphins losing. Sure I am upset that they lost, and I'm not going to justify it or excuse it by saying "well compared to last year, we had a good year" like everyone else there did. I just thought Baltimore was a better team, and I thought they would lose. Which is why i was happy to go to the first game versus going to a game after.
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01-04-2009, 08:13 PM
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| | | Let me put it this way. Companies don't buy Dell or HP because they are "Dell" or "HP", they buy them because they are PCs bundled with OEM licenses of Windows. Companies want PCs (brand is really irrelevant) running Windows. When Apple starts selling a $500 PC with Windows and will write huge service contracts for companies this is when companies will start buying Apple products in huge volumes. |
01-04-2009, 08:14 PM
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| | | I'm not hating on PC's. I like them. I just don't like to use them for my leisure. I have had too many problems with them in the past. I also don't find it as easy to use as the Mac for what I want to do.
When it comes to work and such, even using a word processor is easier. I hate how mac has the "float" thing for Microsoft products, and how the menu and tools for other mac productivity programs work.
I feel a "degenerative feeling" more with PC's than I do with Macs. All the computers my family has ever had (PC's) feel like they get slower and slower and more bloated over time. We have always gotten the cutting edge PC's that have been available to us. I just can't enjoy them as much as I can a mac.
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01-04-2009, 08:22 PM
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01-04-2009, 08:22 PM
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| | | That's fine, use what you like.
I just don't buy the "MS is huge and crappy and people use it cus' that's all there is and it's expensive to change, blah blah blah" argument. In over 20 years of computing that argument has never made sense, and is always one Apple people use because they don't have anything else to say. Rather than argue the merits of why people should be buying an Apple they make ridiculous claims about why people shouldn't buy Windows based PCs (and almost all of them are subjective, non provable nonsense like "the system feels a certain way"). Even Apple's own advertising takes this same approach with its Mac vs PC commercials. Apple can't possibly sell you a Mac on the merits of the product so they have to attack their competitor and hope people will choose Mac over their fears of "the evil Windows!" It's sad really.
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