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Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem

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From: John Slade
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:09
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On 7/16/2010 1:13 AM, nospam wrote:
> In article<mKR%n.24811$Zi.9921@newsfe14.iad>, John Slade
> <hhitman86@pacbell.net>  wrote:
>
>>        Microsoft's XBox 360 has been increasing in sales each
>> year and video games is a growth industry. I think there are
>> more XBox 360s sold than iPhones sold.
>
> nope. 40 million as of april 2010, compared to 50 million iphones and
> over 250 million ipods in the same time frame.

>
>>        As for the Zune. I don't know if it's a success or
>> failure. I hear it's selling out and I hear good reviews about it.
>
> zune's market share is in the single digits (2% in 2009), while ipods
> are around 70%. it's a dismal failure.

     The only thing that would make it a failure is if they're 
making money from it. OS X makes up about 3% of the worldwide 
market share of computers. Is OS X/The Mac a dismal failure 
because of the tiny market share? It's all about what's making 
profits.

John
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