tuaw.com— During last week's conference call in which Apple announced preliminary 4th Q earnings, Mr. J apparently also declared 2007 to be "one of the most exciting new product years in Apple's history.
Oct 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
I keep on hearing how people say that Apple will never make it big in the home market. I have to ask why. Is it because MSFT dominates the business market? What does that have to do with anything in the home market? Do you really have to be compatible with the office? If you do have to connect to the office, why can't you use citrix or terminal server clients for OS X?Let's face it, except for games, MSFT does not offer the optimal home computer environment. Does the average joe really need to have three security programs running on their machines at home? Does the average joe really have to use a machine that has a bloated registry stored in a binary file which could corrupt any minute?Doesn't OS X combined with the iLife apps make more sense for people that want to surf the net, shared the photos and edit their home movies?Do you really need to have a PVR inside your computer or would a cable box with a PVR feature make more sense for the average joe?
"Linux is getting easier & easier to use for the everyday PC user."Not as long as they keep commercial developers off linux with the likes of RMS and your average slashdot linux user/troll.The linux community does not understand what easy to use means and they do not subscribe to the KISS motto.
Dell has already been undercutting Apple prices - where they can. They do not have so much margin that they can really reduce costs further than they do already.If anything Apple is the one that can bring margins down if the fighting got really rough and tuble since they have a lot more leeway - but they are content to let sales grow at a slower pace, where they can keep on top of manufacturing issues that may arise with greater volume.
doodoofaceOct 22, 2006
Inaccurate, 2008 will be
Closed AccountOct 22, 2006
"I believe 2007 will be a huge year for Apple, and it's not because Steve Jobs said it."Sure, I believe you...
aristotle0dudeOct 22, 2006
Perhaps you did not see the results for this past quarter and how Apple has 5.8% of the US market placing them in the top five.
aristotle0dudeOct 22, 2006
I keep on hearing how people say that Apple will never make it big in the home market. I have to ask why. Is it because MSFT dominates the business market? What does that have to do with anything in the home market? Do you really have to be compatible with the office? If you do have to connect to the office, why can't you use citrix or terminal server clients for OS X?Let's face it, except for games, MSFT does not offer the optimal home computer environment. Does the average joe really need to have three security programs running on their machines at home? Does the average joe really have to use a machine that has a bloated registry stored in a binary file which could corrupt any minute?Doesn't OS X combined with the iLife apps make more sense for people that want to surf the net, shared the photos and edit their home movies?Do you really need to have a PVR inside your computer or would a cable box with a PVR feature make more sense for the average joe?
quixOct 22, 2006
"This was frontpaged last week. I don't care this time, either." - goat77You commented last week. We don't care this time, either.
aristotle0dudeOct 23, 2006
"Linux is getting easier & easier to use for the everyday PC user."Not as long as they keep commercial developers off linux with the likes of RMS and your average slashdot linux user/troll.The linux community does not understand what easy to use means and they do not subscribe to the KISS motto.
superkendallOct 23, 2006
Dell has already been undercutting Apple prices - where they can. They do not have so much margin that they can really reduce costs further than they do already.If anything Apple is the one that can bring margins down if the fighting got really rough and tuble since they have a lot more leeway - but they are content to let sales grow at a slower pace, where they can keep on top of manufacturing issues that may arise with greater volume.