Re: The Mac vs. Windows War is Over. And the Winner is...

In article <1_ydnWct8N7nJ6jZRVn-uQ@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
AM <sctuser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jeff wrote:

Apple missed the boat 20 years ago and they still don't have a clue.

In one respect they didnt. Their profit margin is FAR higher than any
PC manufacturer. They realize that they will never get the computer
market cornered, and they dont care as long as they get the level of
living the owners on apple want. Pure and simple.

But even that wasn't enough to support Apple economically. Today Apple
makes most profit from the Ipod portable media players. If it wasn't
for the Ipod, Apple would be in serious economical trouble today.


(and if the Ipod had a battery which was easy to exchange, I would
probably have one myself. Because that's a fundamental requirement I
have of all my portable battery operated devices: I want to be able to
carry along spare batteries, preferably of standard types, but at
least easily exchangeable out in the field, so I can exchange the
battery whenever it runs out of power. The lack of this capabilty I
consider a fundamental design flaw of the Ipod)

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