All quotes.
Yes, that’s correct. Apple builds consumer products, not computers. Windows and box PCs are all DIY. You HAD to know how to tinker and get your geek on to get full use out of them. And in the beginning, geeks were the only computer owners. And as more people wanted to use them, they bought the idea that they “had” to use MS products to be compatible with work or the geek next door told them Macs were toys. Now people want computers to work like appliances, they don’t want to tinker, though Apple does leave the ability to tinker at whatever low level you want, in its Unix core. People want to use the thing for spreadsheets and letters and websites and photos, music, movies, you name it. And they don’t want to have to learn the 10,000 Word “secrets” to write a stupid resume!
Apple gets that, Dell and MS has not. That’s why Apple’s market cap does matter and the reason why Apple has been bucking the PC maker stagnation trend and growing like crazy. Apple is making things that work and once that becomes clear to the PC lemmings out there still trying to figure out what a registry setting is and why they have to spend their time worrying about up-to-date virus definitions and having a hardware upgrade decertify their PC when all they really want to do is use the computer to create content and enhance their lives (not BECOME their lives!)” – Joel.
As of Oct 18, The market cap:
• Microsoft (MSFT) – $292,958,592,320
• Google (GOOG) – $199,647,788,700
• Intel (INTC) – $157,504,800,000
• IBM (IBM) – $156,174,723,600
• Apple (AAPL) – $150,882,713,500
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $136,302,137,940
• Disney (DIS) – $67,505,336,720
• Dell (DELL) – $66,172,115,820
• Sony (SNE) – $46,786,274,780
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $39,315,851,200
• Amazon (AMZN) – $37,143,900,150
• Adobe (ADBE) – $27,031,152,680
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $1,000,459,980
• Napster (NAPS) – $148,944,000
Performance in the last 3 years (source):
Apple takes off. Google and Hewlett-Packard have both enjoyed some growth. Everyone else?
well… to measure the car/driving performance 
moshimoshi 2:30 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 07 Permalink |
but apple’s overall performance has very little contribution from the pc division, i’d imagine.
zzeed 1:16 pm on Saturday, November 3, 07 Permalink |
well… pc contributes a lot by not being secure and well-integrated.
you gotta have a comparison yardstick.. right
Francis 11:06 am on Wednesday, July 23, 08 Permalink |
So Apple gets it? They run Microsoft Office for spreed sheets and resumes in OSX & that’s the argument? Boy.. that’s unique. Well I guess 8.5 of the computer market gets it, and the rest of us don’t. Apple Fan Boys are the lemmings.
The Mac stopped being a “Mac” when they moved to the Intel chips. The only thing that Apple can claim as their own is the motherboard and the OS (barely). It’s a PC running a pretty desktop manager ontop of FreeBSD. Both of which are.. well already free.
Last I checked Dell and HP still outsell Apple computers. Dell with 31% and HP at 25.5% while Apple remains at 8.5%. Let’s not even get into the enterprise end of things where Apple remains a grain of dust in a beach of MS and Linux. That’s not going to change either, especially given how their iphone 3g launch went. Bricked phones, Bad firmware, crappy battery life, crashy apps, .me not yet a reliable service, iPhones crashing exchange servers… the list goes on. Who needs a virus when you have a apple product.
But that’s ok… only 8.5% of the market cares.
zzeed 12:43 pm on Wednesday, July 23, 08 Permalink |
LOL… You should also see the growth rate of Apple vs the industry. Apple used to be below 3%. A mere 1.5 maybe. Look at today.
And for the record, Mac is not a Mac because they were on PowerPC.
You still don’t get it, do you. Have you even owned one? I doubt it.
And yeah, exactly? Why do you care? You conflict yourself right there.