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Net Applications: Apple’s Mac OS share hit 9.63% in December 2008
Mac Daily News ^ | 01/01/2009

Posted on 01/02/2009 1:09:34 AM PST by Swordmaker

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To: antiRepublicrat
Apple OS share is rising because of Psystar and other clone sales and Hackintoshs.

You have got to be kidding me. That's literally a drop in the bucket compared to Apple sales.

Look at it this way
Safari browser use is up partly because of the Psystars, Hackintoshes and other clones floating around. Windows users too who have no intention of buying an Apple computer

21 posted on 01/02/2009 12:27:21 PM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: dennisw
Safari browser use is up partly because of the Psystars, Hackintoshes and other clones floating around.

I'm pretty sure their total is within the margin of error of the survey.

22 posted on 01/02/2009 3:23:42 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: tvdog12345

And yet Vista has more than twice the market share.


23 posted on 01/02/2009 3:25:56 PM PST by dilvish
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To: antiRepublicrat

-— Blessed are the clone makers -—

You are beholden to the clone makers to boost the Safari ratings


24 posted on 01/02/2009 3:51:57 PM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: dennisw

The last time there were Mac clones, the marketshare went through the floor.


25 posted on 01/02/2009 3:58:36 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: dennisw
Apple is entering perilous times. Many who love Apple will simply not be able to afford them and will go buy Windows machines or do without

I think Apple has been mostly doing all the right things. They have tiered their systems well for the most part, made the operating system work seamlessly with the hardware, moved to the Intel platform, and increased their visibility through their retail store push. They also released Safari and iTunes on the Windows platform. Their iPod and iPhone lines seem to be doing very well also.

Their problem will always be in the entry level, and while small, lesser-featured laptop "netbooks" are pushing the price boundary down, Apple is, and probably will continue to be absent from. Linux has hope here, but there has to be standardization (and an app store?) before it can take off.

26 posted on 01/02/2009 4:40:07 PM PST by dan1123 (Liberals sell it as "speech which is hateful" but it's really "speech I hate".)
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To: antiRepublicrat

The Psystar boys are breathing life into a tired old brand. You should be thanking them and inviting them to replace Steve Jobs as keynote speaker. Plus they are bi-lingual, can deliver it in Spanish too

My prediction is that within two two years Apple will keep the upper tier but will authorize Psystar to make and sell entry level Apple desktops so they can compete with Dell for students


27 posted on 01/02/2009 4:42:13 PM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: dennisw
The Psystar boys are breathing life into a tired old brand.

I think you've reduced to simple trolling now. OS X in standard boxes? Not exactly breathing new life into a brand.

Apple is 24th in brand value in the world, worth over 13 billion dollars (just the brand name alone, not the company). That's up from about 9 billion and 39th place in 2006. It's 8th in the electronics industry, behind the likes of Microsoft, IBM and Nokia and ahead of Sony, Dell and eBay. Overall they're even ahead of Nike and Pepsi.

Apple won't go low-end because they can't guarantee the quality, product cohesiveness and marketing that goes with the brand, and that would reduce brand value. A point or two in marketshare means nothing if it doesn't come with extra value or profit.

28 posted on 01/02/2009 5:02:13 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: dennisw

“Google does things right. “

You’re nutty as a fruit cake.


29 posted on 01/02/2009 7:32:48 PM PST by Sunnyflorida (Unless you are nice and thoughtful you will be ignored. Write in Thomas Sowell.)
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To: dennisw

“The Psystar boys are breathing life into a tired old brand.”

You’re fruitier than a nut cake. Paystar has barely sold a handful of machines. Anybody that would by a computer out of a Miami warehouse is insane.


30 posted on 01/02/2009 7:34:45 PM PST by Sunnyflorida (Unless you are nice and thoughtful you will be ignored. Write in Thomas Sowell.)
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To: antiRepublicrat

Yup, and despite people like dennisw’s rabid desires and psychotic delusions to the contrary, going downmarket has been a total failure 99% of the time.

Just ask Mercedes. They’re *still* in serious trouble over going downmarket. Or Cadillac, for that matter. Anyone else remember the Cimarron?


31 posted on 01/02/2009 7:46:11 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: dennisw
Is some new version of it about to come out in 2009?

Rumor has it that way... but we have to wait for Tuesday to move it from the rumor column to the it's happening column.

32 posted on 01/02/2009 9:59:55 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: antiRepublicrat

Am an Apple gadfly and muck raker
And anytime I write Psystar you can read that as codeword that also includes all up and coming clone makers and Hackintoshs...... Like it or not they bring the inevitable to Apple. Cheap Apple OS available to the proles that Stevie has so much contempt for


33 posted on 01/03/2009 3:22:36 AM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: Swordmaker

thnx


34 posted on 01/03/2009 3:23:14 AM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: Sunnyflorida
“The Psystar boys are breathing life into a tired old brand.”

You’re fruitier than a nut cake. Paystar has barely sold a handful of machines. Anybody that would by a computer out of a Miami warehouse is insane.

It will be "too the moon" ....  Once the gag order is lifted and the court rules against the 1984 like Apple Leviathan
The gag order is what keeps Los Hermanos Psystar from selling their clone tech to other up and comers who want in on the action. Money is tight and these young & hungry entrepreneurs are going to stand the Apple paradigm on its head within two years. Matter of fact Stevie should be standing on his head and doing some yoga for his health

35 posted on 01/03/2009 3:28:51 AM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: Spktyr
Just ask Mercedes. They’re *still* in serious trouble over going downmarket. Or Cadillac, for that matter. Anyone else remember the Cimarron?

All car makers are in trouble. Overcapacity and lack of money to buy luxury brands like Mercedes and Apple. Apple can either learn from the Psystar boys or it is headed for quarterly losses. The proles want Apple but can't afford them
I see the huge market there that you and cousin Stevie are blind too

36 posted on 01/03/2009 3:32:44 AM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: DevNet
"What is so wrong with Vista? Please provide details so I can replicate the issue(s) on one of my lab systems."

It costs money.
37 posted on 01/03/2009 3:34:59 AM PST by joseph20 (...to ourselves and our Posterity...)
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To: antiRepublicrat
The last time there were Mac clones, the marketshare went through the floor.

Ancient history
We are in a serious deflation now verging on depression
You have to re-tool your attitude
More importantly, uncle Stevie has to

38 posted on 01/03/2009 3:36:21 AM PST by dennisw (On the 31st floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rage ---FBB)
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To: dennisw
We are in a serious deflation now verging on depression You have to re-tool your attitude More importantly, uncle Stevie has to

There will always be people to buy Apple's goods even if the market shifts lower. What matters is profit, not marketshare. Apple is doing very well despite the recent downturn in the economy, definitely getting hit far less than most other companies.

While I like the Smart car, it's still been a money loser for Mercedes. The A-class was a disaster, skimping on engineering resulting in the first Mercedes that was unsafe straight off the lot. Even Mercedes has noticed the downturn in its quality and engineering and recently spent a huge amount of money to bring its cars back to their former quality and restore the brand name.

39 posted on 01/03/2009 11:04:31 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: dennisw; antiRepublicrat
It will be "too the moon" .... Once the gag order is lifted and the court rules against the 1984 like Apple Leviathan The gag order is what keeps Los Hermanos Psystar from selling their clone tech to other up and comers who want in on the action.

There is no "gag order." Everything that is being done in court is being published as soon as it's done. So far, the court has ruled against everything that Psystar has tried.

40 posted on 01/03/2009 3:33:39 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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