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- Eslamicolt3, on 10/18/2007, -2/+26Cave, thats exactly what almost killed Apple. In case you were joking, your subtle humor is appreciated, at least by me.
- hansolo, on 10/18/2007, -3/+25Look at colleges across the country. I work at one of the state U and a great majority of the students and staff are lugging around with a mac laptop.
- kingkilr, on 10/18/2007, -2/+20Go take your god damned meds.
- quarando, on 10/18/2007, -1/+13If thats what it like using a mac, I can't imagine your description for the pc.
- cdiggy, on 10/22/2007, -1/+13Penis envy???
- mmmiiikkkeee, on 10/18/2007, -0/+9I know this story is about Apple/mac but whats good for Apple is frequently good for linux. having real competition between os's helps bring more standards between all os's. I welcome this news :). any thing to get rid of the idea windows==computer and IE==internet is really a good thing
- MacEnvy, on 10/18/2007, -0/+9At the University where I work, our incoming freshmen were 36% Mac this year. That's a HUGE change from just a few years ago.
- johnhummel, on 10/18/2007, -3/+11The only thing I want right now: a more affordable Mac Pro. I love the Macbook and the Macbook Pro - a bit pricey, but when you compute in what you get, it's a pretty decent price. The iMac line? Same thing.
But dang - I went to price out a Mac Pro, thinking "Hey, I can have a sweet Mac machine for my usual stuff, and then have a separate drive just for running my PC games", and nearly choked at the price. A Mac Mini Pro - smaller form factor, but allows for upgrades. For those who want the mac experience, some upgradability - but without the $3K price.
But yeah, I love my mac machines when I shifted over a few years back. Great Unix for geek developers like me, my wife can just get on and "do stuff", I can lock it down with a few clicks to give my kids an account they can't blow up the machine on. - RoshanK, on 10/18/2007, -1/+9I was talking to some microsoft rep at a tech fair at my college today, and asking him how microsoft is reacting to a large number of people switching to macs and linux. the next 500 lines that came out of his mouth was the dumbest load of ***** i've ever heard. I actually walked away from him while he was mid sentence.
- tbenathan, on 10/18/2007, -3/+10If this can be confirmed, it's a gigantic leap for Apple. Suddenly, programmers are going to have to start making Mac versions of what are now Windows Only applications. The deployment of Leopard will only help.
- inactive, on 10/18/2007, -0/+7http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1613/stockszj6. ...
- zwei, on 10/18/2007, -3/+9/sarcasm
- DaffyDuck, on 10/18/2007, -2/+8I just want to point out that this is the 4th time he has posted this crap.
- osclinear, on 10/18/2007, -2/+8I see it tripling by next year..Ive seen this coming for a couple years.
- inactive, on 10/18/2007, -0/+6Although I don't see myself using a Mac for the foreseeable future (our country is unfortunately standardized on Windows), this news makes me very happy. Microsoft has broken all moral barriers and they need a good shake. Windows Vista costs more than any prev version of Windows and eats up 500MB of RAM at startup, not to mention the DRM enforcements that have made drivers a nightmare. Flash Player, 1MB and the most used web technology after HTML, included in XP, has been omitted from Vista, despite the OS coming at 3.5GB. Even worse, there is no more install for Flash. Allagedly for security purposes, but that is ***** since there are a million alternatives to security: from Firefox's plugin system to allowing easy install only to the compoenents digitally signed by Microsoft. All this was done probably to push Silverlight, which although itself not included in Vista, will still be downloaded & installed automatically from the Automatic Update service. And the worst offender of all is Silverlight's support of Firefox. I bet my life that if they reach a nice market share with Silverlight, they will stop supporting Firefox and force users to use IE.
Soooo, ***** Microsoft. This market is craving for some competition, a competition that Linux's philosophy cannot provide. - TennisElbow, on 10/18/2007, -2/+7A mac mini with a chinese 19" flat panel monitor would allow you into the Mac kingdom on a limited budget.
- hotdamn, on 10/18/2007, -0/+5an iPhone would've corrected iphone to iPhone.
HAAAAAAAA! BIG FAT PHONEY! - cave, on 10/18/2007, -9/+14As Apple's market share continues to rise, I expect the company to start branching out into more markets and form factors for the Mac computer line. In the next couple of years we will probably see the xMac that has been long rumoured, and maybe even a much fantasised about Tablet Mac for digital artists.
I also expect Apple to come up with more customization options for the look of their machines (especially the portables) if their market share continues to expand like this. At first I'd expect to see color options like the iPod Nano currently has, then maybe later different designs altogether for the exterior. Half the fun of owning an Apple computer is that it looks different from everybody else's computers. - notadiggtard, on 10/18/2007, -2/+7Why would Steve Balmer want to ram himself into my eye socket and then lodge in my anus?Perhaps to "squirt" me a song from his turd colored Zune?
- iwod, on 10/18/2007, -0/+5I think with the release of Leopard and hopefully some decent announcement in Jan MacWorld. Apple could take that 1.9% with ease.
- superkendall, on 10/18/2007, -2/+7Even hear of OpenGL?
The Unreal Tournement and Doom guys sure have.
And the gorilla owns a console now which is where gaming is headed.... Look at bioshock, dual console/PC release! And honestly after playing in Windows I wished I had gone the console route. - superkendall, on 10/18/2007, -2/+6Those of use who bought stock now have enough money to buy lots of Apple stuff, essentially for free. You PC users always did look at things kind of backwards.
- javaroast, on 10/18/2007, -0/+4HP really made a nice 2.6% gain, Apple did alright with 1.9% gain as well.
- rickbauls, on 10/18/2007, -0/+4Ha, I see what you did there. The headline is grammatically incorrect, you write about it and get dugg down. Interesting how people work sometimes.
- deadbaby, on 10/18/2007, -2/+6Do tablet computers really sell? There was a big push for them 2-3 years ago but I've never seen them catch on at all.
- DelMonte, on 10/18/2007, -1/+5God damn, it's just a freaking computer...
There's a definite pattern where many Apple bashers seem to enjoy making up these twisted scenarios. It seems that most of their days is spent imagining disgusting scenarios involving Mac users and Steve Jobs in some extreme sexual situations. I guess it's a thrill for them?
Personally, I'd rather be one of those who are happy about an operating system release, than those who obsessively imagine and write those sick scenarios.
DaffyDuck: "I just want to point out that this is the 4th time he has posted this crap."
I've noticed that, and each time I reported him as being offensive, I hope many others do the same so he get banned, this stuff doesn't belong on digg. - osclinear, on 10/18/2007, -1/+5i cant believe i read that whole statement..but i just had to so i could see just how stupid it was.
- inactive, on 10/18/2007, -3/+7Yeah, I have 77 shares of AAPL. I'm pissed that I can't buy more.
- tubeblender, on 10/18/2007, -1/+5No, keep the crap applications Windows only.
- sudowrestler, on 10/18/2007, -1/+5What's driving this is notebooks. As the article stated, this is the first quarter in which, in the overall market, notebook sales exceeded sales of desktops. Apple's notebooks are extremely good sellers. I see Mac hitting double digits eventually because of this gradual shift to notebooks by consumers.
- monsterofNone, on 10/18/2007, -2/+6freud said "sometimes a mac is just a mac." and he also said "you are ***** insane."
- Snyder, on 10/18/2007, -1/+5I just want an affordable Mac tower. I would have switched a long time ago if Apple offered a god damn 'cheaper-than-the-Mac-Pro' Mac tower.
- yabos, on 10/18/2007, -0/+3.NET and enterprise solution? LMAO. You can decompile the whole application from a .NET assembly and get the source code(without comments).
- Berkana, on 10/18/2007, -1/+4When they hit 20%, that will be a tipping point. People will not put up with Vista after that, and I don't just mean consumers. When the developers start migrating to Apple, at least in the markets where it counts (The US, Europe, Japan) Microsoft can boast in vain all it wants about its market share amongst the hundreds of millions of people who use windows...in China and south east Asia, where nobody buys software and pirates hawk bootleg copies of Vista for $2 on the street corners.
- inactive, on 10/18/2007, -0/+3Exactly the same, except with a barbed wire covered baseball bat, hooked up to a car battery, and covered in sulfuric acid?
...I should seek professional help. - vinny, on 10/18/2007, -0/+3It's a big stretch to say that Apple's hardware isn't upgradeable. Upgrades are certainly more limited on the consumer machines (i.e. Mini, iMac), but they are consumer machines, so there is little demand for that ability. If you are a pro, or the type who likes to upgrade your system, then you can upgrade just about everything on a Mac Pro (Memory, Hard Drives, Burners, Graphics, PCI). What exactly do you want to upgrade that you can't?
- inactive, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2When I look at market share, I like to take a look at what systems are being used by actual computer users. Traditionally, all of these market share numbers have been by the fact all kinds of utilitarian systems such as Point of Sale units, etc are calculated into these estimates. Now, I'm not arguing that those systems don't matter, but I am suggesting that matter a whole lot less.
I like to go by web stats. That gives you a pretty unbiased view of who's out there actually surfing, and I have to say that I see OS X market share at or around 15% on average across the domains I have take care of (and that's a fair number). - OrangeTide, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Apple generally makes a good quality notebook that is somewhat competitively priced with business PC notebooks, but not with cheaper consumer PC notebooks. $1100 for a small dual core laptop is not too bad though, especially if it has a good warranty and doesn't fall apart in the first 6 months. So it's a popular item with consumers.
Obviously there is no single laptop that is the right one for everyone, I'm not saying you should go out and buy a macbook just because "everyone" else is buying one. - MacParrot, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Market-share for Apple is as irrelevant now as it was 5 years ago. Apple typically doesn't talk too much about it and for good reason. Their numbers pale in comparison to the overall Windows market. If this is important to you, follow those incremental jumps.
Considering that Apple was at 3% or less of the US market 10 years ago, I think they're doing just fine. Considering that they almost were bankrupt and directionless as a company 10 years ago, I think they're doing fine. Considering they haven't had a quarter with near record profits in a few years, I think they're doing fine.
Don't worry about market-share. Worry about profitability which is a better indication of a companies overall health. Apple has little to worry about these days. - WiseWeasel, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Netcraft confirmed it...
- tubeblender, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Stick to pushing a broom.
- encrypter, on 10/18/2007, -1/+3What a fanboy
- henhanson, on 10/18/2007, -2/+4Apple is starting gear up their business and market share. From iPod to iPhone, from iBook to OSX Leopard. We can see the huge changes done by Apple. They are doing pretty well this moment.
Way-To-Go! I love Apple - kelly, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Maybe its because the approach that was taken left much to be desired.
After all... the spec was initially designed by Microsoft. It's only natural that Apple would refine the product, fix its flaws and sell a successful version of the product line.
And if/when its successful, naturally, the digg haters would say that its just the Apple fanbois buying them. - kelly, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Good point except that Mac users buy Macs simply because they are a better product. The fact that you can also gain a rebel image by being different is just gravy on top and not a prerequisite for the platform's success.
- tubeblender, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Uh, it's Mac. MAC stands for Media Access Control. Just thought you'd like to know, maybe.
- dolby, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2Add me to the growing user base...10.5 looks (insert number here) times better the vista.
- DMCer, on 11/06/2007, -1/+3OWNED!!
- TastyLamp, on 10/18/2007, -0/+2What the hell have they been doing for the past 20 or so years then?
- badqat, on 10/18/2007, -2/+4I've owned five Macs over the years, with my last purchase being a MacMini that is used as the media center for my HDTV. Still use boot camp, but more often than not, I'll stay in OS X. My next purchase will be a Macbook Pro...to replace my old Windows laptop.
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