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Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop?
An anonymous reader writes "RDM asks Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop?, a comparison of recent sales and profits and the future outlook for Macs and PCs. It's the opinion of the article's author that Apple doesn't have to take a majority share of the desktop market to win. The key is to take the most valuable segments of the market. They show via a few quick financial numbers that even though Apple is selling fewer machines, they're making more money per machine than your Dells or your Gateways. Not being beholden to Microsoft gives them a big advantage when competing with traditional PC sellers. Once Apple is positioned, Microsoft will be forced to choose whether it wants to battle Mac OS X for control of the slick consumer desktop, or repurpose Windows as a cheaper, mass market alternative to Linux in corporate sales. If it doesn't make a choice, the company will face difficult battles on two fronts.""
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..... Oh man, let me wipe away these tears. This is just too funny. I don't even know where to begin... Let's see, Apple has had what, 25 years to beat MS? And they've never held more than a small percentage of the desktop market. Nothing has really changed except now there's Linux, which frankly, has a better chance than Apple. Apple dug themselves into a hole on the desktop a long time ago and they've never managed to dig out of it.
They're selling fewer machines, but making more money per machine. Well duh. That's exactly what they've done for the past 25 years. And now suddenly it's some magical advantage? Sorry, don't think so...