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

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B00tDisk wrote:

redrumloa wrote:
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.

Like Betamax, the mini-disc and MSX!

LOL

;-)

Exactly, how Japan did not embrace all 3 and see how all 3 fell in comparison to the products that Japan did embrace, VHS, Compact Disk and the Commodore 64.

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mongo wrote:
Keep in mind that if you are buying Mac OS X Leopard, you already own a Mac.

Apple didn't gain any new users, they just sold an upgrade to existing users.

Total gain in market share for Apple = 0%.

By that same logic, people are buying Vista to go on their already existing PC's.  So total gain for Microsoft market share is also 0%

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mongo wrote:

little wrote:

That is not really what is happening. For Vista you really need a new AND expensive PC, a cheap PC from three years ago simply wont do. On top of that as soon as Vista SP1 is released you will need to buy a new video card since cards one year or older are deemed "unowrthy".

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

Vista runs quite nicely on my PC that consists of a $30 motherboard, a $7 CPU, a $12 heat sink and fan, $40 worth of ram, an $87 hard drive, a $22 case, a $15 power supply, a $34 DVD burner, a $25 CD burner, a $15 sound card, a $40 video card, and a $10 monitor.

I also have a $7 keyboard and a $12 mouse.

That's $356 in total. Not really an expensive PC, by any standards.

Compared to the $200 PC Walmart sells that comes with Linux....