LOL! you have no idea what you're talking about. Have ever heard of the enthusiast market? Maybe you should do some research.
That's one thing about Steve Jobs -- he knows where the market is at.
Yep Jobs is good at one thing, cornering 3% of the market and holding on for dear life! LOL
You said -- "Have ever heard of the enthusiast market?"
Yes, I've heard of peanuts. Elephants eat them.
But, Steve Jobs is not buying a circus, today. Sorry....
Regards,
Star Traveler
Hmmmm... Maybe YOU should do some research. Let's be generous and grant that your "enthusiast market" is composed of 2,000,000 people (quite frankly, I don't think it is anywhere close to that high) who are wiling to go the extra mile and assemble their own computer... and compare that to the overall computer market of 180,000,000. That "enthusiast market" is only 1.1%... hardly a "mass market". It is large enough to support niche retailers such as Frys and internet suppliers that sell components, but it is not even in the running as a market force.
Yep Jobs is good at one thing, cornering 3% of the market and holding on for dear life! LOL
That 3% canard is MARKET SHARE, a picture of current sales, not installed base. The last reported Quarter, Mac Market share was 6.2% of computer retail sales and growing. But that is not the whole story. Macs have a longer useful life than PCs... Consumer Reports and Popular Science and several other magazines have done scientific polls of computer users and found that ~14% of computer users have Macs... and that comports well with the reported ~25,000,000 Mac users out there.