Author: Peter Stayne
Date: 09:08:07 06/24/03
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Relating to Apple's market share projected to be passed by Linux next year, very interesting (caught this from http://www.slashdot.org ): http://slate.msn.com/id/2084727/ On June 24, 2003 at 11:50:35, Alastair Scott wrote: >On June 24, 2003 at 09:49:53, Harald Faber wrote: > > >>Take 5 different benchmarks and get 5 different results/rankings... >>"Get a G5 for chess", well if you now start collecting your money you will be >>able to pay for this G5 when it might come out end next year. ;-) >>Don't forget that Apple claims exclusivity, especially concerning the prizes... >>One gets the impression that Apple does not want to sell many computers - they >>would lose their reputation for being exclusive, something special... > >Well, according to the online store the cheapest G5 is $2,000. Which slightly >surprised me - I was expecting at least $2,500. Still, it is a colossal markup; >I could build a roughly equivalent PC (at least according to the published G5 >benchmarks) for £800 or so, although it would be plug-ugly ;) > >I think Steve Jobs said at some point that he wanted to increase the Apple >market share to 10 per cent; it has been 5 per cent and barely changing for as >long as I can remember (although I suspect that, for all his bluster, had he not >taken over and totally reworked the product line several years ago it could well >have been 0 per cent by now). > >Alastair
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