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Article #2783Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Robert Salasidis
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 20:08
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 20:08
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Dave Glue wrote: > > On 11 Jan 1996 03:23:48 GMT, oakley@conti.oz.net (Reid Conti) wrote: > > >> >That is why Macintosh has less than 3% of the market share. > >> Try 14 in North America, and 9 worldwide - and both are growing. > >> Bzzzt! Try again please. > > > >The only number I've seen is 9% -- and its going down, spurred by poor > >sales during the last two quarters. > > The last quarter likely didn't do as well as their great third quarter > where they got around 13% of the domestic market, but it will still > good. PROFIT is shrinking due to price cuts and mismanagement, but > overall market share has increased in the past year. As they are unprofitable at the current time, their ability to buy market share with their cash reserves cannot last forever. We will see what Apple is able to do after their next round of layoffs and restructuring.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.mcgill.ca!news From: Robert Salasidis <salasidis@medcor.mcgill.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 15:08:10 -0500 Organization: Salasoft Inc. Message-ID: <30F962AA.3FB1@medcor.mcgill.ca> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do><49gkhp$3ag@newsbf02.news.aol. <1996Jan9.122711.44744@ac.dal.ca> <4d1vs4$em8@emerald.oz.net> <4d3i54$9um@steel.interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: u-10.das.mcgill.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (Win95; I)