APPLE sales are off the charts. Mac sales have had a large percentage gain of a very tiny number.
The iPod brought Apple back from the brink. With the iTunes stores, the various iPods, and the iPhones, Apple is no longer a computer company.
It might sell some pricey systems as a side note, but Apple is a music and gadget maker. Proprietary works for a handheld device, but there aren’t very many people who’ll accept a closed system for their workstation.
Mac sales have had a large percentage gain of a very tiny number.APPLE sales are off the charts.
The iPod brought Apple back from the brink. With the iTunes stores, the various iPods, and the iPhones, Apple is no longer a computer company.
Apple sells some very nice medium and high-end desktops; my own is a 20" iMac. For less money than I gave for it, they now sell units with better displays. Full Stop.It might sell some pricey systems as a side note, but Apple is a music and gadget maker. Proprietary works for a handheld device, but there aren’t very many people who’ll accept a closed system for their workstation.It is also true that Apple's vision of the personal utility of the microchip does not end with desktop PCs. Apple leads in sales of computers in the price range in which it chooses to compete - not least, in the market for good laptops, and also for computers which are also telephones or music boxes.
Which is more "proprietary" - Microsoft's Windows, with its secret code base from the ground up, or OS X with its Unix base? The only OS of note which isn't at all proprietary is Linux - with a whopping 1% market share, small even compared with OS X which IIRC is approaching 10% in the US.
They sold 3 million + computers last quarter. The majority for more than $1,000. That is a pretty good sidenote. Most of their money still comes from this sidenote.