Article:		WWDC: Apple Reveals Its Path
Subject:		Apple vs MS and Wintel box makers
Date:		2003-07-04 12:02:30
From:		anonymous2
>> Maybe it's the RDF working overtime, but it makes we wonder what other companies are doing. Exactly. MS is 40 times bigger than Apple, but what has it done lately other than delivering weekly or daily security fixes. Dell the box maker is 12 times bigger and makes much more money than Apple, but the Dell boxes are as ugly as any other. Apple is an incredible company, and innovates in ever quickening paces. Sometimes it looks that Apple is making more cool stuff than all the other computer makers combined except IBM and perhaps Sun. I laughed almost with tears when Steve showed Longhorn chewing grasses slowly while Panther galloping ahead.

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• Apple vs MS and Wintel box makers
  2003-07-05 19:08:38  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Subtract the difference in cost between a Mac with OS X and a Dell running Windows and you'll understand how much some people value, and more particularly, are willing to pay for "style". The emphasis is on 'some' because many more people are simply more interested in the basic functionality ("good enough") of a commodity PC at a minimal cost. The difference between "designer jeans" and Walmart blue jeans if you will. (Macintosh machines also seem to go out-of-style rather quickly with each new design "innovation" - being a consumer at the leading edge of Apple hardware/sofware products is a costly proposition ...)
  
  For this reason Apple will be always be a niche ($$) market. Indeed, they'd loose some of their cachet (hence price differentation) if they aimed to garner too big of a market.