| fastyxx said: I find the Apple haters amusing. 3 years from now they will be talking about how their cloned knockoff copies are so great. Apple has about as perfect a record as a company can have over the past decade. What's their only flop? AppleTV? In the meantime they've reinvented music with the iPod and iTunes, reinvented the phone and pocket computing and changing the way we look at everyday activities with the iPhone and iPad. And oh yeah. They sell more laptops than anyone and have increased their marketshare in home computers, to the point that software companies and data providers are catering to their products in unheard of ways. All to almost universally good reviews, with great customer service (unless you need to deal with ATT&T), and a pretty strong reliability factor. When I needed Mac help due to my stupidity, I talked to a nice educated woman in Texas (i.e. NOT India). All while maintaing a hip image and increasing profit in a terrible economy - - increasing company profits every year for at least the past 5, including a 33% increase last fiscal year as the economy imploded. Yes. They should stop doing what they are doing. Clearly no market there. Other than that, they are just one fail after another. |
Just wondering if you have a link to backup the bolded part above? Not saying you are wrong, I just can only find data that says you are.
This link doesn't even show Apple in the top 5 for notebook sales..
http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24800
This link shows them in 7th overall - but the data is old 2007-2008 data
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/06/apple-ranks-7th-in-notebook-sales-worldwide.ars
I would just be surprised if Apple sells more laptops than anyone, there are some big names like HP, Toshiba, etc.. Even with Dell's recent troubles I would imagine they have more market share than Apple.
Though I will give kudos to Jobs and Apple, they are a stock I wish I could go back in time to buy... moreso Google.. but well yeah...
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