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66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs
An anonymous reader lets us know about a recent analysis of retail computer sales numbers that shines a spotlight on Apple's sales growth as the PC market has flattened. In the lucrative >$1,000 PC segment, in the first quarter of 2008, Apple's retail market share was 66%. This includes a 64% market share for laptops and a market share for desktops of 70%. The article attributes the bulk of this success to Apple's stores. Fortune picked up this report and pointed out the somewhat obvious fact that the >$1,000 PC segment is Apple's by default, since Dell, HP, and Lenovo sell the bulk of their machines in the $500-$750 range, and Apple has only one model selling for less than $1,000. As the analyst said, "If you don't give people a choice [in the Apple stores], people will spend more."
*fap, fap, fap*
It is as if you are speaking to a different person by a subtle shift in login.
It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
Twitter is pretty incoherent tonight.
Fixed.
If you have a problem with me, mark me as foe and ignore me. Of course if you wanted to do the same to twitter, you'd be screwed, since he just keeps creating new accounts.
you repeat just about the entire post over and over, it seems in response to any post by twitter.
That's funny, it seems that's exactly what he does to his own posts. At least I take responsibility for what I say without simply switching to another personality when things don't work out.
The twitter monologues. Click on my homepage and be amazed.
Yes, we know that. Thanks to you, every single Slashdot user has heard at least fourteen times in the last day and a half that Twitter has more than one account and you don't like it. We know. We all know. Now would you please shut the fuck up about it?
Hey, I finally got my first freak! Took you long enough!
Seriously, foe me and stop complaining. What exactly is the Slashdot regulation that allows you to bitch about what I do but punishes people for even mentioning that some fucktard is running around replying to himself with ten different accounts?
The twitter monologues. Click on my homepage and be amazed.
You are like ugly people in a bar. Sure they have a right to be somewhere, but they scare away the hotties.
Given that there aren't that many Slashdots around to share and read intelligent posts, your constant prattling about sockpuppets is not just bothersome, but destructive to any hopes of maintaing any intelligent discussion.
If nothing else, you're just troll feeding. By throwing a monumental fit every time somebody posts a crack about Windows or "M$," you are actually creating sympathy for the opposite of your advocacy opinion. Maybe just let it slide and the fairly intelligent people who read them will figure that shit out for themselves.
Do you really think you need to sculpt public opinion for those who can't recognize obvious reality for themselves? Is that strategy also working for the extreme right?
This is quite funny, because you've been guilty of the exact same thing yourself, haven't you? The creation of multiple Digg accounts to game their system, and then when you got caught you tried to get Apple to create a new Digg that you could control to your heart's content? I believe someone also found some Slashdot accounts that you created, too? If that's not "sculpting public opinion" then I don't know what is. You're just a massive hypocrite.
I'm also interested in how you think one person replying to himself with the same idea 8 times over is 'intelligent conversation'. Twitter does far more to disrupt discussion than even you have, and that's saying something.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
So no, I don't think people who have the temerity of pointing out that twitter is shilling his own posts with nine different accounts a particular drop in the signal to noise ratio. I mean, what could be worse that those tepid "I agree with you, impressive stranger" shill replies to his own posts?
Seems there are still lots and lots of people who can't recognize obvious reality by themselves. How else could we explain your popularity?
How's the whole Digg thing working out for you, by the way?
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
Actually no I didn't set up multiple Digg accounts. I just put Digg tags on my articles and asked readers to digg my articles, which resulted in lots of people new to Digg hitting my articles and driving them to the front page.
I was then censored by Digg because they got complaints from Windows Enthusiasts worried that the world would be exposed to some criticism of Microsoft. One person (you?) then posted up a shit storm of anonymous blog trolling about how I was "gaming Digg" with 50 different accounts because there were that many people who primarily just hit my articles, and were new to Digg.
I had over a thousand readers write Digg and CC: me to ask that they not censor my content (and delete Digg postings that had lots of comments on them), but Digg said they couldn't handle getting complaints from the Windows Enthusiasts, so they waited until the bullshit blew over and then said I could use my account again.
I have no respect for Digg.
I also have higher readership now than I had with articles getting lots of Diggs, and get less gibberish hate mail from morons who can't craft a sensible criticism.
I don't have the time or inclination to create multiple accounts (I can't handle remembering more than one password), so your over the top blustering about "massive hypocrisy" is a bit too much. You shouldn't be so simple as to equate the anonymous accusations of nobodies with "being guilty."
As for slashdot, I clearly wasn't saying that twitter "M$" posts are intelligent conversation. Nobody is confused by twitter self conversations, but when 2-3 comment cops start blowing out regular diatribes about sockpuppets then yes, it becomes a far larger problem and one of the reasons smart people don't comment on threads that start to sound more like Digg comments.
Oh, and fuck you for working so hard to seed false information. Expressing one's opinion is not the same as trying to restrict others from being heard out of fear they are right. You are core to what sucks about the world.
I'm sure you are very clever in your own mind.
Anyone with an IQ over 90 should recognize that you've only beaten up a strawman and delivered vacuous accusations that are absurd on their face.
My "pay per click blog"? You mean a website with ads? How unique is that dipshit?
I have no problem ignoring twitter blah blah fake conversations, but reading a constant conspiracy theory about how he's overturning society through his sock puppets is too fucking much to dig through.
Shoving your tongue up the asshole of Digg doesn't make you look any smarter either. FYI, while RDM has been effectively banned from getting more than 50 Diggs by a handful of Windows Enthusiasts (but not by Digg itself), I still write plenty of the articles that sit on the front page of Digg, just not under a name that Diggtards can start crying about.
Your efforts at censorship don't matter.