Re: Global Computer Market quarter by quarter

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>> Linux and Mac are basically not in competition with each other for the
>> next 5 to 10 years.
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>> Increased market share for Mac is a benefit to Linux.
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> I agree on both accounts.  Linux and Mac may never be in competition,
> in fact, if Mac stays at the high end where the profits are big.
> It's people who use monopoly power to overcharge for commodity
> products of mediocre quality that are in trouble.
>
> BTW, Mac may have only 3% of the world wide sales, but their profit is
> 50% of Microsoft's (something like that, I don't recall the exact
> figures).

More Fuzzy math?

AAPL  net income 4.35 billion
MSFT  net income 16.42 billion.

4.35 is not 50% of 16.42

The truth hurts.

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