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"Market Share" "Installed Base" and Consumer Electronics
redrum writes "Analysts and reporters like to talk about market share statistics, but the conclusions they draw are often misleading, RDM reports. Market Share Myth 2007: iPod vs Zune and Mac vs PC takes a look at how numbers are used to paint grossly inaccurate portrayals of the market share of the Zune among iPods, and alternatively the Mac among PCs. A follow up article, Market Share vs Installed Base: iPod vs Zune, Mac vs PC demonstrates how the conventional wisdom of market share reporting can be turned upside down by simply comparing what vendors actually sell. An eye opening, in depth look at the real numbers behind PCs, music players, and console games."
Yes. They were considered in the article.
That was the articles point that the lifespan of a Mac is longer than the lifespan of a PC.
That with new releases, the Mac hardware improves or maintains it's performance unlike the PC which requires more resources.
Yes that was his point. To be more precise, his point was that there are more people using Macs than the market share reports claim.
It's not a life decision on the Mac because no decision has to be made.
DRM? No thanks, I'll just get it somewhere else...
Think different. Buddha nature. Don't correct my grammar, you simpering cultist. There are puns in my posts you can't even begin to comprehend.
(Oh, god, I just realized - my online persona would be played by Ben Stiller.)
Actually, before the Zune, the Microsoft system was licensed to partners. Multiple vendors of music, multiple vendors of devices. It might have sucked, but it gave consumers choices and any company could buy into it.
Apple is a vertical monopoly in music players, and wants to be on in computers. One hardware, one software, and one coordinated color scheme for all people. That mainframe in THX 1138 was a Mac! Big Brother was using iChat in that famous commercial!
If you don't address or understand the dangers of monopoly and monoculture, you can't even begin to refute my post.
And no, giving someone a flashy toy does not empower them. Your sister will never make money with iChat (at least, I hope not).
....Indeed. But it would take a long afternoon of some really deep philosphical arguments for me to admit that I don't know the answer......
Why does that take so much thought? A computer is basically the CPU. The rest of the stuff in the box just supports that. Same for display, mouse and keyboard. So, simply as long as you have the same CPU you still have the same computer. Upgrade RAM, disk, display etc. but leave the CPU alone. So if the CPU is upgraded, then system is a new computer, even if it is in the same old box with all the other old pieces.
All theory is gray
....Apple doesn't sell computers either. They sell software with a $2000 copy protection dongle attached......
No, Apple sells a $2000 computer with their own free operating system. You can replace that with your very own copy of Windows of you want. That way Bill won't go hungry. I don't know for sure, but there is no reason I know why Linux could not also work on the new Macs.
All theory is gray