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Lord Flashheart on 24 November 2009

Maybe Kowenicki but they can't rely on being at a premium forever. The USP they have could soon bite them in their arse if they don't get the market share.
Then if they decide to make their OS available or lower the prices people could see it as desperation or they have an inferior product.

Do it soon while they are at a high to make the most impact. It's not as if their OS is a bad one.



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daveJ on 24 November 2009

Ultimately its not important how much it sells as sales of Windows OS's to the home Users as its only a minor player in windows sales.

Evidence?
From Microsofts latest financial report

Client revenue growth is directly impacted by growth of PC purchases from OEMs that pre-install versions of Windows operating systems because the OEM channel accounts for over 80% of total Client revenue.



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0cton on 24 November 2009

It will do fine.
Microsoft will just force it to PC makers.
Vista sold about 50 millions 7 will do more :)
Microsoft is a monopole they will always "sell" lots of windows :)



Chairman-Mao on 24 November 2009

Lmao sounds like the fucking retarded Mac commercials couldn't stop the juggernaut that is Windows 7 from doing amazing. According to that wikipedia article it got to 4% market share in 2 weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if that's more market share then Mac has.

On another note does anyone have stats on computer marketshare? I know PC dominates Mac but by how much.



Boneitis on 24 November 2009
Chairman-Mao said:
Lmao sounds like the fucking retarded Mac commercials couldn't stop the juggernaut that is Windows 7 from doing amazing. According to that wikipedia article it got to 4% market share in 2 weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if that's more market share then Mac has.

On another note does anyone have stats on computer marketshare? I know PC dominates Mac but by how much.

As of January 2009, there are articles saying Mac has about a 8% market share. Which is actually down from previous years.

2009 has been a big year for Microsoft. They were constantly running ads about PCs being cheaper, Windows 7 was released, netbooks have been very successful, and the recession has hurt Mac sales. I can only assume this has all had a negative impact for Apple.



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DirtyP2002 on 24 November 2009
Boneitis said:
Chairman-Mao said:
Lmao sounds like the fucking retarded Mac commercials couldn't stop the juggernaut that is Windows 7 from doing amazing. According to that wikipedia article it got to 4% market share in 2 weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if that's more market share then Mac has.

On another note does anyone have stats on computer marketshare? I know PC dominates Mac but by how much.

As of January 2009, there are articles saying Mac has about a 8% market share. Which is actually down from previous years.

2009 has been a big year for Microsoft. They were constantly running ads about PCs being cheaper, Windows 7 was released, netbooks have been very successful, and the recession has hurt Mac sales. I can only assume this has all had a negative impact for Apple.

There was basically no negative review for Windows 7 so I could think that the marketshare for mac might be down even more in the upcoming months. My father is using W7 now and he totally loves it. he skipped vista though.



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Aion on 24 November 2009

I hope it sells a lot more.



 

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Zer0John on 25 November 2009
rafichamp said:
^^ya, but when you think about it, who else makes laptops/pc's that are over $1000, Alienware, and Hp, and I doubt anyone would pay $1000 for a hp laptop/pc

Bullshit, Sony Vaio and Fujitsu Siemens have a lot of laptops which are over 1000$ and even over 1000€...



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Boneitis on 25 November 2009
Zer0John said:
rafichamp said:
^^ya, but when you think about it, who else makes laptops/pc's that are over $1000, Alienware, and Hp, and I doubt anyone would pay $1000 for a hp laptop/pc

Bullshit, Sony Vaio and Fujitsu Siemens have a lot of laptops which are over 1000$ and even over 1000€...

I think that 90% figure is from the NPD. So that's North America only. I imagine the world wide figure is lower.



JerCotter7 on 25 November 2009

Most of the people I know just think macs in general fucking suck. So I don't see why they would destroy every other company if they priced competitively.

I'm still using vista though. Might upgrade to windows 7 next year. Cant right now since I have solidworks on my laptop for my project and my teacher wont install it again because he is a dick, so don't want to take the chance in case it wont work properly without reinstalling.