roughlydrafted.com — Why Apple's market share always been low, and why it failed to make any progress in the 90's. Here's an interesting look at why the Mac fell into crisis, and why the solutions of PC analysts--to be more like Dell, HP and Microsoft--didn't work, leaving Apple to find its own turnaround strategy. Daniel Eran, RoughlyDrafted Magazine
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Closed AccountOct 22, 2006
Apple failed??? it has more market cap than Dell (68B vs 53B), it just reported a spectacular quarterly earnings, have 10B in cash and 0 debt.
Closed AccountOct 22, 2006
Computer hardware is to expensive for lower specs.
sixcolorsOct 22, 2006
The sentiment of what he's saying is there, but I think the writer of this article minces words. Companies like Dell use lower end PCs to get people into their market. Once there, people start finding out that they can't do quite as much with their $499 PC as they thought they could. So they buy some RAM, buy some other software, maybe buy some other upgrades (although after looking into my Sister's Dell case, there's not much room for anything other than proprietary hardware.) After a while, the low end becomes less useful and the customer in question begins looking into a new unit - this time maybe one that packs a little more punch. And so on.
tuxuserOct 22, 2006
apple failed in the 90's? look to the imac/ibooks and os x launches!
danieleranOct 22, 2006
Dweller, you have yet to actually challenge anything I've written with facts. Stating your opinion is fine, but that doesn't overturn any facts. Until you can actually refute something, you can't ask for a retraction. You cry above about the "Time Machine Myth" and volume shadow copy, and Zybch weeps about my figuring in the $11 billion Windows anti-virus/malware industry into the actual cost of ownership of Windows compared to a platform that isn't completely in shambles because of horrific security and adware problems, but neither of you ever actaully refuted anything. Unsubstantiated complaints are not the same as factual rebutting a line of reasoning presented with facts.After Mike (Zych) wrote me directly this weekend, I offered that he write his own counterpoint to the articles I write, and offered to host his opinions on my site, and contribute on his, and interview him in a podcast but he ignored the offer.Neither of you are interested in refuting anything. You just throw up a crapstorm to try to discredit someone who presents ideas you find threatening. That puts you in the same bitter ballpark as Ann Coulter. I pitty your small minded ignorance.
quixOct 23, 2006
"After Mike (Zych) wrote me directly this weekend, I offered that he write his own counterpoint to the articles I write, and offered to host his opinions on my site, and contribute on his, and interview him in a podcast but he ignored the offer."And why would he accept? Reasoned argument requires much more thought and energy than just throwing out the same tired rhetoric we see from countless anti-Apple drones on Digg.As a Windows (by force) and Mac (by choice) user, I've given up any hope of any intelligent dialog from the Microsoft-subjected masses. I believe they fear if they give the debate any real thought, they'll question their own perceptions and biases. And we couldn't have that now, could we.Let them wallow in their own ignorance.
windows95Oct 23, 2006
Poor, poor Microcultists. Their holy crusade compells them to thwart the heathens even when the heathens aren't even saying a single bad word about Microsoft, but talking about Apple's own failures. Their work is never done. Credibility never within their grasp.Fated to one day drink that final glass of kool-aid and lie down, waiting to board a UFO shaped like the Divine Sigil of Windows that simply never arrives. It's like a Shakespearean tragedy.
jusu8888Oct 23, 2006
"Some people find it interesting to look at things differently; the minority who try to bury my stuff are threatened by different ideas, because it forces them to rethink their little world.""Smart people like to rethink things; simple people find challenging new ideas threatening. Nobody has to agree with everything I say..."Could you please read that one more time - how does it sound to you? Do you think you see yourself in the same way other people do?Stop plotting all that mac-ms stuff - go out, meet people, chat... Trust me, it will do you good.
jrlsOct 24, 2006
I thought that the security by obscurity myth was dead. Counter example: IIS has fewer users than Apache, but more viruses. The OS, based on FreeBSD, was designed to be secure. Windows was not. Just as you can not test quality in, you cannot add security after the fact.
eddy3oyOct 24, 2006
@berkanaWell It's sounds like a flavour of Linux is being used as the Playstation3 OS. Now that I think we can all agree is getting somewhere near being mainstream. And nofxjunkee has just given some pretty good examples of where Linux has reached the mainstream, even if the mainstream themselves are ignorant of what OS drives there latest gadget
eddy3oyOct 24, 2006
"Anyways, daniel is right, market share doesn't matter."-yeah, try telling that to anyone trying to enter the mp3 player market. (Zune notwithstanding)