In article <5c043$4835f04c$27028@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Sgt. Friday" <f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>> Yet Microsoft re****ts information that they're selling more MS
Office
> >>> for the Mac than they have in two decades and they consider it so
> >>> im****tant that they're reversing they're decision not to include
VBA...
> >> Yet after more than 20 years of running the race, and claiming to be
the
> >> fastest they've ever been, Apple is still 100 laps behind the front
runner.
> >
> > LOL
> >
> > Sorry, Edwin, but what's past is past.
> >
> > What's interesting is what's going on *today*, and today (and for the
> > past four years) Apple has been growing far faster than the industry.
>
> Why do they still have less than 4% of the market?
They fell a long way in the bad old days, of course.
Doesn't mean they're not growing now.
> When will they
> regain their year 2000 level?
I don't know. If Apple's sales keep rising at 50% year on year and the
rest of the PC market only grows at 11%, not long; my math makes that
2012.
Now, I doubt that Apple's sales will continue at quite this torrid a
pace, but they don't have to continue at that rate of growth for Apple
to be successful.
>
> http://www.systemshootouts.org/images/mac_sales_market_share_lg.gif
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> Apple will have to sell 27 million Macs per year to come up to 10% of
> the market. Their best year so far is almost 8 million Macs a year.
Mac sales have been rising steadily since 2003. What is it you feel is
likely to prevent them from rising in the years to come?
There are more and more Macs out there, so people are more likely to see
Macs as viable. More Macs mean more developers interested in the
platform. More developers, more software, more people who might find the
Mac has the software they need.
Apple's decline was caused because it was correctly perceived that their
OS was lagging in a number of areas, but that's no longer the case.
So what is going to prevent the Mac from continuing to grow in
popularity Edwin?
--
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"I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone
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'[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' --
'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the
IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM)
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