Out of the blue, Apple topples Micro$oft in Japan with more market share!

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Japan shuns Vista and embraces Leopard, giving Apple a greater marketshare than Microsoft.

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Mac claims more Japan OS sales than Windows
 Microsoft's has taken a bruising in the Japanese marketplace just as Apple's Mac OS X Leopard was released, according to a new report by the country's Business Computer News. The publication notes that while sales of Mac OS X increased dramatically between September and October, climbing from a rate of 15.5 percent year-over-year to 60.5 percent, Microsoft suffered from the reverse effect. Sales growth of Windows plummeted from 75.3 percent to 28.7 percent. The sudden switch provided Apple with about 53.9 of the total OS-only marketshare in Japan during October -- a breakthrough for the company, BCN says.

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I figured I'd mention I've peronally had a very positive experience with Apple lately. Our Mac mini died an untimely death and at first I found the Apple store's handling very poor. After a bit of complaining we got a call back from an Apple corporate rep and their response was way, way above what we would have expected. Our Mac mini solo was replaced with a brand new Mac Mini Duo for the repair cost, Leopard was included and we were given a $100 voucher for our troubles. The Apple store handled our case poorly, they agreed.

Very positive indeed, especially considering the cold reposnse most PC companies give nowadays (cough cough, HP).

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I don't know about sad, I'd be happy to see it. There is no doubt in my mind Apple is putting out a far superior product. I see M$ getting toppled, Japan usually leads the way in consumer electronics with the USA and Europe following.

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I often wonder if the people bashing Vista have actually ever used it.

Yes, hated it.

M$ did a fair job with XP, best effort they have ever done. Vista IMHO is on the same level as Win95(rev-a) or WinME. Total garbage.

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Enough with the fanboy comments, everyone. :idea:

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koaftder wrote:
I was just pointing out that every time apple does something, people get all excited about it. Most likely because everybody loves the "underdog".

Bzzzt, wrong. I am typing this on a Leopard based Mac, my wife's, because I think it is superior to Micro$oft's current offering. My usual personal PC has Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, because I find it superior to M$'s current offering. My house does not have a single Vista based machine. Yes I have used Vista and I have no use for it.

You want to love M$ and Vista, that is your right. I will say i am surprised anyone would be pleased with the malware/spyware built directly into Vista.

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adonay wrote:
Why care i thought this is A Amiga forum.. Shouldent this kind of post be posted on a mac forum ? I sure as Heck have no interest in either windows or mac if use for daily computing . Seems lately everyone is you know mac did this mac done that .Who tha F#"K cares.. If i did the same with Linux or even Windows i would have been sloughterd and trolled to death for beeing the feckin spammer that constantly dwell on that same damn topic ..

Calm down please, look at the forum this posted to.

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Discussion is allowed and why not? It's not as if OS4/MOS/AROS is taking over the world at this time.