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Forbes Predicts 5% Desktop Share for Apple in 2005
sebFlyte writes "Spurred on by the iPod, Apple's share of the desktop computer market will grow to five percent (from three percent) this year, according to research from Morgan Stanley. Apparrently nearly 20% of iPod users surveyed are planning to switch to Macs, and the sales figures for the last few quarters are backing up the theory of the iPod Halo Effect. All this suggests the question ... how many iPod-touting Slashdotters are thinking of switching?"
I can't afford to switch. I'll stick to PC's and Linux, thank you.
as soon as i can build my own mac from stuff at frys, ill switch.
I thought roughly 1 in 10 people were gay?
Wouldn't that give Apple a 10% share?
Something doesn't add up here.
Never trust an analyst for a stock broker.
They always have an axe to grind.
If their so fucking smart, what are they doing on the pages of ZDnet? If their so incisive, shouln't they have be their own money by now and made a killing and bought their own island by now?
In fact, the smart money is betting that Apple
is once again, just a passing fad. People will wise up and that they can buy cheaper whether is DRM/MP3 player or a computer.
Five percent market share increase? Whooped-dee-doo. Dell already won the race. You can count me out of the Mac world. The only outstanding products are their monitors. They have superior display resolution, period, unless anyone else can show me a product that's better. Aside from that, Macintosh as a brand would have to grow much faster to overtake any PC ground, and that seems unlikely with their otherwise equivocal or inferior products, including the IPOD or the Mac Mini.
um. some of us consider games a waste of time... I'll assume you and your frat brothers may think otherwise which is fine, but to think that games are the centers of regular folk's lives is just plain silly.
What absolute crap. 20% of iPod users going to switch? They're going to throw away their entire hardware investment and software investment, all because of an MP3 player??
I don't know how they phrased the question, or how they interpreted the answer ("would you ever consider moving to Apple" or something stupid), but it's just not going to happen.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Congratulations. Excellent troll. If this is original, well, sir, you definitely have talent.
What a witty Bon Mot! A smashing retort! Points of view such as the grandparent need not be argued, merely slandered with a well placed "Nyah!"
I wouldn't go so far as to say the mini is obsolete, but it's pretty clear that the mini is 100% form factor. If anyone wanted it to be able to perform well with 0SX you need to add 150 dollars to the price of the machine, and forget about competing with a stock dell on price/performance.
This mini is an example of Apple as a company. Form over function. It's a hot looking machine, but it's not much else.
As opposed to the one major success apple has had, the Ipod, which merges form, AND function.
Call me when it gets some brains under the hood.
This is a windows-centric opinion... Windows needs 512mb to actually get work done, but OS X runs fine with 256mb. Apple designs computers that work fine out of the box with a stock configuration. I have an imac with 256mb and it runs much faster than most PC systems I have used with 512mb ram.
It's like saying a 3ghz P4 is faster than a 2ghz g5, which isn't true. The number is higher but a higher number isn't always faster.
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