Finally someone who actually understands supply and demand.
It's not about performance it's about cost. Do people buy a more Ferrari's or corvette's. Answer: Corvette's. Thus corvettes must have better performance. (see the logic is flawed)
A Niche market is a niche market. Apple Holds 10-15 percent of the overall computer market...that's serious chunk when looking at the computer market as a whole.
PC users don't have the loyalties that Apple users do. We have choices of software and hardware options, but we often sacrifice quality (patch after patch in software and products like the K6-2, Cyrix Processor that are marketed to be as fast as the Intel equivalent).
I could build 2 or three PC's for the price of an Apple, but with an Apple machine I'm not just buying the machine, I'm buying the name and whatever goes with that.
Ever since the Athalon was released AMD is the poor mans powerhouse. Intel manages to under sell AMD once or twice a quarter at best. AMD gives the best price when comparing performance equivalent processors.
AMD has managed to bring the giant down to the battlefield by taking a huge part of the OEM and Enthusiast Market. They follow the same strategy that ATI (video cards not NIC's) did for so long.
Would you rather sell 100,000 chips for 10$ a piece or sell 1,000,000 chips for $1 a piece.
Market saturation is valuable community and can be acquired by the ambitious, but only the ambitious willing to continually deliver quality performance at such a large quantities can keep it.
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Finally someone who actually understands supply and demand.
It's not about performance it's about cost. Do people buy a more Ferrari's or corvette's.
Answer: Corvette's. Thus corvettes must have better performance. (see the logic is flawed)
A Niche market is a niche market. Apple Holds 10-15 percent of the overall computer market...that's serious chunk when looking at the computer market as a whole.
PC users don't have the loyalties that Apple users do. We have choices of software and hardware options, but we often sacrifice quality (patch after patch in software and products like the K6-2, Cyrix Processor that are marketed to be as fast as the Intel equivalent).
I could build 2 or three PC's for the price of an Apple, but with an Apple machine I'm not just buying the machine, I'm buying the name and whatever goes with that.
Right on!
Ever since the Athalon was released AMD is the poor mans powerhouse. Intel manages to under sell AMD once or twice a quarter at best. AMD gives the best price when comparing performance equivalent processors.
AMD has managed to bring the giant down to the battlefield by taking a huge part of the OEM and Enthusiast Market. They follow the same strategy that ATI (video cards not NIC's) did for so long.
Would you rather sell 100,000 chips for 10$ a piece or sell 1,000,000 chips for $1 a piece.
Market saturation is valuable community and can be acquired by the ambitious, but only the ambitious willing to continually deliver quality performance at such a large quantities can keep it.