Apple can try as many marketing ploys that it
can dream up, but there is no getting away from
the fact that their overall desktop market share
will never rise beyond 3-5%. It's actually a sad
turn of events for at one time Apple dominated
the educational market. Macs have now been
supplanted with cheaper, faster and just as reliable PC hardware. Yes, Microsoft's operating
systems have their security issues, and i'm the first one to admit that they need to clean up their act. They face the same competition from
the OpenSource initiatives just like everyone else and someday maybe a footnote in the history
books. What i don't ever see happening is Apple moving beyond anything but owning a small part of the market for destop publishing and graphic design. Yes their equipment looks pretty and they
do make fairly decent hardware. Although my experiences lately haven't been all that pleasant
with Mac hardware especially their motherboards.
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Apple can try as many marketing ploys that it can dream up, but there is no getting away from the fact that their overall desktop market share will never rise beyond 3-5%. It's actually a sad turn of events for at one time Apple dominated the educational market. Macs have now been supplanted with cheaper, faster and just as reliable PC hardware. Yes, Microsoft's operating systems have their security issues, and i'm the first one to admit that they need to clean up their act. They face the same competition from the OpenSource initiatives just like everyone else and someday maybe a footnote in the history books. What i don't ever see happening is Apple moving beyond anything but owning a small part of the market for destop publishing and graphic design. Yes their equipment looks pretty and they do make fairly decent hardware. Although my experiences lately haven't been all that pleasant with Mac hardware especially their motherboards.