Now Apple has 4% of the market. They should have 90%. But they force the customer to buy their hardware to run their software. That keeps Bill Gates the richest man in the world.
He doesn’t care who makes the box that runs his software.
Steve Job is like a liberal. He keeps doing what doesn’t work.
Now Apple has 4% of the market. They should have 90%.
Actually, it's about 9-10% of the U.S. market. It's been growing fairly dramatically.
In fact, Apple reported (Steve Jobs did...) that the sales of Macintosh in the Apple Stores is more than 50% of the sales being to new Macintosh users (having used Windows PCs before their purchase of Macintosh).
Besides that kind of "movement" for the general population, I'm seeing a lot of hard-core computer geeks going over to the Macintosh. The reason why is that they can run Mac OS X, Windows and Linus, all on the Macintosh hardware... :-)
In addition to that, Apple Macintosh is run virtually 100% of the software out on the market (maybe a very few exceptions that I don't know about.. :-) ...). In fact, many users like it that they can run their Windows software, right on the same desktop that is running Mac OS X and all the Macintosh applications. You can't even tell that the Macintosh hardware is ... LOL...
And it's much better to be at 10% of the market and have lots of growth left to go to 90% -- rather than -- being at 90% and nowhere to go but down, down and down -- like Microsoft is doing... :-)
How is it not working? Isn’t profit and not market share the real goal here? They seem to be doing quite well in that department.
I don’t think a hardware company trying to sell...you know...hardware is all that strange.
Markeshare doesn't necessarily equal profitability and value to the shareholders. Check out this chart of Apple vs. Microsoft since just after Jobs came back. The Apple chart includes two stock splits, the Microsoft chart one. The Microsoft stock is 34% lower, the Apple stock 600% higher.