Posted on 01/28/2015 10:52:49 AM PST by Star Traveler
Forget the post-PC era. The Mac just continues to get bigger. For its fiscal 2015 first quarter that ended Dec. 27, 2014, Apple sold 5.5 million Macs. That’s up 9% year-over-year and up 14% from the previous quarter and brought in revenue of US$6.9 billion.
Apple has gained market share verses Windows PCs in all quarters since 2005 but one. The Mac has surpassed overall PC growth for 34 of the last 35 quarters.The Mac’s unit share of the worldwide PC market has grown from 2.1% in 2005 to 5.5% in 2013. Apple’s U.S. market share is somewhere between 10% and 14%, depending on whose statistics you believe.
(Excerpt) Read more at appledailyreport.com ...
The thing that they are doing right, is the very same culture that brought Apple from where it was with that Apple commercial at the Super Bowl, and that culture being extended by Steve Jobs, when he came back in the 90s.
After Jobs left (kicked out by Sculley) and until he came back, Apple reverted to the standard “business model” of other companies, put in place by those “from other companies” and it just did not work. Steve Jobs put Apple BACK ON TRACK for what it was before, when he returned!
The Mac has a similar market share against Windows as Windows Phone has against iOS.
But one is applauded and heralded while the other is ridiculed and laughed upon.
Good for Apple - I’m all for more consumer choice. I got an I-Pad II and loved it until the last Apple OS upgrade rendered the unit almost unuseable. Apple tech support could only recommend that I upgrade my unit (ie. buy a newer tablet). Well, I’m old school and don’t think a $500 product should only have a four year shelf life, so I think my next tablet will be a Samsung running Droid.
“ex-
You didn’t pay your share.”
Oops!!!! Guess my sense of humor needs a tune up.
My kids and grandkids do more for me than I do for them. I am blessed.
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You’re speculating that Apple is spying, when Apple has raised the ire of the Justice Department for making it MORE DIFFICULT TO SPY on customers.
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A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy.
At Apple, your trust means everything to us. That’s why we respect your privacy and protect it with strong encryption, plus strict policies that govern how all data is handled.
Security and privacy are fundamental to the design of all our hardware, software, and services, including iCloud and new services like Apple Pay. And we continue to make improvements. Two-step verification, which we encourage all our customers to use, in addition to protecting your Apple ID account information, now also protects all of the data you store and keep up to date with iCloud.
We believe in telling you up front exactly what’s going to happen to your personal information and asking for your permission before you share it with us. And if you change your mind later, we make it easy to stop sharing with us. Every Apple product is designed around those principles. When we do ask to use your data, it’s to provide you with a better user experience.
We’re publishing this website to explain how we handle your personal information, what we do and don’t collect, and why. We’re going to make sure you get updates here about privacy at Apple at least once a year and whenever there are significant changes to our policies.
A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. But at Apple, we believe a great customer experience shouldn’t come at the expense of your privacy.
Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you. Our software and services are designed to make our devices better. Plain and simple.
One very small part of our business does serve advertisers, and that’s iAd. We built an advertising network because some app developers depend on that business model, and we want to support them as well as a free iTunes Radio service. iAd sticks to the same privacy policy that applies to every other Apple product. It doesn’t get data from Health and HomeKit, Maps, Siri, iMessage, your call history, or any iCloud service like Contacts or Mail, and you can always just opt out altogether.
Finally, I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will.
Our commitment to protecting your privacy comes from a deep respect for our customers. We know that your trust doesn’t come easy. That’s why we have and always will work as hard as we can to earn and keep it.
Tim
https://www.apple.com/privacy/
“Macs work on both sides of the fence ... :-) ...”
They swing both ways?
“I can’t use a Mac. I’m a heterosexual.”
Disgusting too!
Our granddaughter wanted a new laptop. We going to get her a basic touchscreen with I-3 processor. She is only 11.
She said she needed an I-7 to play mindcraft!
She ended up with clothes instead.
“People that write nonsense like that are probably Mac users.”
Just more proof that Texans are Neanderthals! Must be the humidity there.
> You’re speculating that Apple is spying,
My, you sound angry.
No speculation at all. They admit it in that little publicity message you posted. Maybe not for the gummint, but for their “advertisers”.
Unlike every other OS supplier, they still do not allow their OS to be installed on any hardware, virtual or bare metal, but their own. And they will come after you with a phalanx of legal luminaries if they think you’ve attempted such.
Not too amazing when you consider how truly awful windows 8 is.
I may go back to windows after ver10 comes out. I’ve been exclusively windows since msdos started dying from version 1 on. OSX was a pretty sharp stick in the eye but Win8 was a corn cob up the wazoo
There were reports that a small minority of iPad 2 users had some problems with iOS 8, but the vast majority did not. This indicates that it was a problem with some individual things on so,e people’s devices or some errant software causing problems. You’ll find out that now people have gotten their iPad 2 models working okay.
But, in terms of the “shelf life” of the iPads, if you look at the processors, and the RAM, you’ll see why there is an apparent “shelf life” as it shows now. That iPad 2 works exactly the sa,e as it did when it was new. Nothing has changed there.
SO ... you can use it exactly as you originally got it. HOWEVER, if one wants the “power” and “RAM” of the new machines, then yes, you’ll have to buy a new machine. And users would not want it any other way ... than to have Apple give them the MOST POWERFUL iPAD that Apple can make for today!
“She said she needed an I-7 to play mindcraft!”
I have no idea what that means-————the clothes I get.
Good decision.
:-)
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I would like to see the chart where they breakout business vs. personal use. I’ve worked in IT for 20 years and don’t see Apple making any headway in the corporate domain computer market.
If you think that is angry ... you ought to head over to Ferguson ... LOL ...
is this an ecumenical religious thread given the source of the thread?
Swordmaker is good with “stats” ... perhaps he can help you.
Well, that's not true for everyone. When I upgraded to IOS 8 my unit slowed down to a crawl and wireless reception was very poor. I deleted every single app other than what came with unit so there was nothing to cause any special conflict. Review of Apple messageboards revealed that many others had the same issue. But I'm not going to put down Mac users - if that's what you like, go for it. They just aren't for me anymore.
I bought a new laptop in December with Windows 8.1 on it. This last month has been the most frustrating in all my years on a computer. I don’t know what MS thought they were doing with this POS. My next PC will probably be an Apple.
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