Posted on 09/06/2007 1:38:46 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
True. The point is that Microsoft has nothing to compete, so they had to lower their price in a desperate move to try to keep sales up.
Oh - desperate moves - kind of like the 4g iphone not being able to compete with the 8G, and the 8G only attacting less then 1 in 50 buyers of cellphones in it’s first full month.
Well, I bought the Macintish 512 in 1985, for 2000.00, and got just over a year's use out of it before the flyback transformer crapped out, a repair not covered by any warranty, even though it was an epidemic failure. I remember paying 375.00 to fix it, and that was with the dealer employee discount. Then, I had to pay close to 500.00 for the ROM update and 2-sided floppy drive. Later, a motherboard upgrade for 999.00 to get it up to a Mac Plus. Not to mention, 110.00 to replace the mouse after it went bad. See if you ever had to pay that much to upgrade a PC. Apple is great at innovation, but sometimes they are less than compassionate.
Apple exceeded its target for the cell phone market with the iPhone, even outselling established smart phones. Name another new player to the market that did so well. No desperation there, just adjustments in a new product and a change due to their own release of the iPod Touch.
Businesses are not compassionate. . . nor should they be. Any compassion is at the expense of their stockholders.
I would also point out that repair of any flyback transformer on a computer monitor of the period would have cost about as much if you didn't just chuck the monitor and buy a new monitor for over $500, which was about the going price for a 14" monitor back then. Motherboard upgrades were also expensive on PCs in that era. Microsoft's mouse was $195 when it was introduced shortly before. So what's your point?
The Compaq computer sold for the exact same price as the Mac 512 and only came with 128K of RAM... and a second Compaq floppy drive was $595... Looks to me as if the prices were competitive.
“Apple exceeded its target for the cell phone market with the iPhone,...”
Riddle me this ... since it’s supposed target was 730,000 this quarter, and with it’s first full month only estimated 220,000 sold - just how do you figure that they reached their target ?
At that rate they will be short by 10%
... If you are talking about the eventual goal of 1% of the worldwide market ... it’s even more laughable.
That was exactly Apple's goal as a newcomer in a large and established market. 10 million phones through next year, and some analysts think they'll far exceed that.
If you are talking about the eventual goal of 1% of the worldwide market ...
“That was exactly Apple’s goal as a newcomer in a large and established market.”
Yep it is their stated goal - So lets crunch the numbers...
Worldwide yearly cellphone sales are approx 1 billion ... or about 84 million a month, so they only missed their monthly target by about 640,000 units.
... and you might want to re-read their goals - it’s 10 million IN next year, not THROUGH next year, so everything this year dosen’t count to it.
That's fine. They're still doing very, very well for their first product in this crowded market. iSuppli thinks the iPhone will do better than Apple hopes for. We'll see.
LOL!!! IBM isn’t doing Windows based PCs anymore because they failed. Apple has vision, IBM doesn’t. Keep up the faith, Mr. Mainframe.
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