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To: Duke Nukum
Oh yeah, and on industry averages and stuff, if you don't own any market share then you sell five computers you've just done five times the industry average.

Five computers. . . how cute. . . as well as dismissive and ignorant.

How does 6,160,000 Macs sold in 2006 strike you? Growth 4th calendar quarter over quarter growth for Macs of 31.8% according to Gartner... while the overall PC market barely eked out 5.6%. Apple GAINED market share... which means that PCs LOST market share.

Macs are designed by a self-identified elitist for self-identified elitists.

Not content to dismiss the Mac as irrelevant, you then proceed to insult all Mac users... nice of you. Really makes you look intelligent and sensible... do you think? I don't.

27 posted on 02/15/2007 11:09:22 PM PST by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

When you don't have much market share to begin with, all there is to do is gain.

It is like when MSNBC was bragging that they went up 44% or whatever it was, when they get five extra viewers, their market gain percentage soars.

But don't sweat it, Steve Jobs has never met a gain in market share he couldn't defeat. If he wanted Macs to be popular outside a small clique of self-proclaimed super geniuses, that could have happened long ago.

And think about the Mac die hard himself, once everyone is a Mac user, how is he going to stroke his little ego and feel part of something special? Mac popularity will cause a schism in the user community and little start-ups will pop up and there will be fifty little Mac micro-brews each claiming to adhere to the One True Faith. You got to figure that it already started when Mac betrayed the One True Faith by going Intel. That sort of thing doesn't go unoticed.

The Mac has become the new Apple IIe.


30 posted on 02/16/2007 12:49:57 AM PST by Duke Nukum (Chickens are part of the natural cycle of life, and that is why we play chickenball in the house.)
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