Apple makes some nice products, but the company’s propensity for control and secrecy concerns me. Thank goodness they only have about 5% of the market. If they had the 95% that Microsoft had, their desire to control every aspect of what you do with your computer and how your do it would be frightening. Google wants to control all of our information. Apple wants to control what we do with our computers. Both have the propensity for evil.
Thank goodness they only have about 5% of the market.
In the Macintosh market, they're climbing rapidly and have 9-10% of the market in the U.S. And in the Apple Retail store (that Apple has themselves) their figures show that over 50% of the sales of Macintosh are to former Windows users. In addition I see the geeks rapidly coming over to the Mac OS X platform. They like it that they can run Windows, Linux and Macintosh all on one machine. You can even run your Windows application at the same time that you're running the Mac OS X and its applications and you can't tell that they are running any differently than a normal application (running two systems transparently side-by-side)... :-)
So, that's been changing rapidly for over the last decade. And there are no signs of it slowing down. That means that the Apple Macintosh has a lot of room to grow into and that Windows has nowhere to go but down, down, down...
In the iPod market (the MP3 players) the Apple products have around 70-75% of the entire market. All the other manufacturers combined have (added up together) only about 25-30% of the market.
With the iTunes Store (for movies and music) -- Apple just surpassed Walmart and become the NUMBER ONE seller/store for music of all the sellers/stores in the country.
And with the iPhone product, Apple had absolutey nothing in the market at the end of June of 2007, and they are now rapidly becoming the top vendor and manufacturer for that product in that market segment of all the other manufacturers.
So, as you can see... Apple is quite widespread and very dominant in the consumer electronics area, in those products that it does manufacture. And Apple is primarily a "hardware" company (don't ever forget that) and this is what drives Apple and how it markets its products.
Thank goodness they only have about 5% of the market. .......
The Jesse Jobs gang has 10% of the computer market but it looks like they are stalling out due to Windows 7