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Article #368Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
From: SMS
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:34
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:34
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On 16/07/10 11:47 PM, John Slade wrote: <snip> > I would have trouble incuding the iPad since it runs on iPhone OS. If > you include the iPad you would have to include all smarphones. In one of > the charts I posted they do include iPhone numbers and it comes to less > than 1%. > > http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9 > > John It's really only an issue to those that are upset about OS-X's market share, and interestingly enough, Apple isn't one of those upset. They have margins on their hardware that Dell, HP, Toshiba, etc can only dream of because Apple can charge premium prices for hardware while the Windows systems vendors are in a race to the bottom on prices. Apple also never felt the need to compete at the low end where the margins really suck. The iPad was a brilliant move, selling for much more than a netbook with a bill of materials that's far lower. Those that complain that it's "not a real computer" do not understand what drives the consumer electronics business. Apple's opportunity for large market share gains with OS-X on computers is over because of Windows 7. There's just no big incentive for Windows users to switch anymore especially corporate, commercial, and educational users who need to run applications that are not available on OS-X, and would have to do dual booting or run Parallels to use Mac hardware. Those same users that use Windows at work are unlikely to want to have a different OS at home unless they are shown some significant advantages, especially given the higher hardware cost of the Apple products. The transition from "Apple Computer" to just "Apple" shows that the company understands that their future success is in achieving commanding market positions in high margin consumer products like the iPod, iPad and iPhone, as well as selling content.
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