Re: Global Computer Market quarter by quarter

"Tim Adams" <teadams$2$0$0$3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "weedhopper" <whopper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <nessuno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> Linux and Mac are basically not in competition with each other for
the
>> >> next 5 to 10 years.
>> >>
>> >> Increased market share for Mac is a benefit to Linux.
>> >
>> > 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?
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>> AAPL  net income 4.35 billion
>> MSFT  net income 16.42 billion.
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> Did you realize that net income isn't the same as profit?

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