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  Positive article on the growth of the Mac JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-08-04 12:33 -0400
    Re: Positive article on the growth of the Mac Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-04 13:50 -0400
    Re: Positive article on the growth of the Mac Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-08-04 20:31 +0100
      Re: Positive article on the growth of the Mac Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-04 20:30 -0400
      Re: Positive article on the growth of the Mac Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-08-05 13:56 +1200
    Re: Positive article on the growth of the Mac Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-08-05 14:03 +1200

#63014 — Positive article on the growth of the Mac

Apple's Mac Is En Route To Dominance
> http://seekingalpha.com/article/2352165-apples-mac-is-en-route-to-dominance


Summary

    Apple has showed growth for 32 out of the last 33 quarters.

    In China, where the IDC reported that the PC market declined by 10%,
the Mac managed 39% growth.

    The Mac is on a long-term journey of continued growth, which may
lead to PC market dominance.






Not sure how much this article is self serving for the investor trying
to boost his AAPL holdings, but it is quite a change from a couple of
years ago when the same Wall Street Casino Analysts were driving down
Apple any which way they could.

PC Market dominance ? Perhaps at hipster places like Starbucks etc, but
not sure about woldwide market dominance. Isn't Windows still orders of
magnitudes ahead in installed base ?

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#63015

In article <53dfb5c4$0$59896$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> PC Market dominance ? Perhaps at hipster places like Starbucks etc, but
> not sure about woldwide market dominance. Isn't Windows still orders of
> magnitudes ahead in installed base ?

   "DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, 
and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 
million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, 
may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that 
numbers alone do not denote a higher life form."

-New York Times, November 26, 1991
-- 
³Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
     but what they conceal is vital.²
                       ‹ Aaron Levenstein

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#63019

In article <53dfb5c4$0$59896$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> PC Market dominance ? Perhaps at hipster places like Starbucks etc, but
> not sure about woldwide market dominance. Isn't Windows still orders of
> magnitudes ahead in installed base ?

It's gonna be between one and two orders, isn't it, assuming that Apple
has, worldwide, at least 1% market penetration.

-- 
"If you're not able to ask questions and deal with the answers without feeling 
that someone has called your intelligence or competence into question, don't 
ask questions on Usenet where the answers won't be carefully tailored to avoid
tripping your hair-trigger insecurities."                  - D M Procida, UCSM

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#63025

JF Mezei:
> > PC Market dominance ? Perhaps at hipster places like Starbucks etc, but
> > not sure about woldwide market dominance. Isn't Windows still orders of
> > magnitudes ahead in installed base ?

Tim Streater:
> It's gonna be between one and two orders, isn't it, assuming that Apple
> has, worldwide, at least 1% market penetration.

Roughly 7% worldwide--various sources. Wikipedia shows 6.73% as of
June, 2014. Among portables the various MacBooks are reported to be
above 15%, with some reports placing them at 20% of the portable
market. This would likely reflect a bump from the mobile "creative pro"
market; the MacBook Pro still dominates this segment. For a
non-scientific, yet meaningful, indicator, look at free on-line digital
photography tutorials. You'll rarely see anything other than a MacBook
Pro (unless it's an iMac).

Ride a commuter train from Washington to NYC and it's getting to the
point where Mac OS and iPad are ubiquitous. But these are people who
get to choose their own platform; they're not office-bound drones.

What would be interesting, then, would be nationwide and worldwide
stats on the Mac market share among employed persons whose employers
allow them to choose their platform. I doubt if such stats are
available. Take away 50 million secretaries, receptionists, clerks, and
"data-entry technicians," and then see what the market share is.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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#63027

In article <040820142031387531%timstreater@greenbee.net>, Tim Streater
<timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <53dfb5c4$0$59896$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com>, JF
> Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > PC Market dominance ? Perhaps at hipster places like Starbucks etc, but
> > not sure about woldwide market dominance. Isn't Windows still orders of
> > magnitudes ahead in installed base ?
> 
> It's gonna be between one and two orders, isn't it, assuming that Apple
> has, worldwide, at least 1% market penetration.

Even in the supposed current "PC sales decline" I'm sure that both
Apple and PC makers get more than one or two orders per year.  ;-)

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#63028

In article <53dfb5c4$0$59896$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Apple's Mac Is En Route To Dominance
> > http://seekingalpha.com/article/2352165-apples-mac-is-en-route-to-dominance
> 
> Summary
> 
>     Apple has showed growth for 32 out of the last 33 quarters.
> 
>     In China, where the IDC reported that the PC market declined by 10%,
> the Mac managed 39% growth.
> 
>     The Mac is on a long-term journey of continued growth, which may
> lead to PC market dominance.
> 
> 
> Not sure how much this article is self serving for the investor trying
> to boost his AAPL holdings, but it is quite a change from a couple of
> years ago when the same Wall Street Casino Analysts were driving down
> Apple any which way they could.
> 
> PC Market dominance ? Perhaps at hipster places like Starbucks etc, but
> not sure about woldwide market dominance. Isn't Windows still orders of
> magnitudes ahead in installed base ?

More and more people are finally realising that Windoze is crap and are
switching to Macs.

As for silly "market dominance", it depends on how you mesaure such
things. Apple could easily reach market dominance by selling more
computers than any other single manufacturer, but it's unlikely to ever
sell more OS X computers than the combined Windoze makers do.

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