[quote author=“Tommo_UK”]
I think Munster has failed to acknowledge the intense interest in the iPhone outside of the three Euro countries in which it has been launched, and the fact that these people can now buy an unlocked iPhone from France with relative ease. That’s Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg - all of which neighbour France - and anyone else visiting Paris this quarter.
Haven’t we read here that Orange requires proof of residency in France to sell an iPhone? That came across in several of the “iPhone in France” discussions.
[quote author=“gslusher”][quote author=“Tommo_UK”]
I think Munster has failed to acknowledge the intense interest in the iPhone outside of the three Euro countries in which it has been launched, and the fact that these people can now buy an unlocked iPhone from France with relative ease. That’s Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg - all of which neighbour France - and anyone else visiting Paris this quarter.
Haven’t we read here that Orange requires proof of residency in France to sell an iPhone? That came across in several of the “iPhone in France” discussions.
Shills inhabit every country in the world and for the right price, U2 can buy an iPhone in France.
Boot Camp provides Apple time and cover until such a solution is perfected. However, there will be issues with Mac developers that will need to be addressed first.
Boot Camp provides Apple time and cover until such a solution is perfected. However, there will be issues with Mac developers that will need to be addressed first.
There are many risks associated with all of this. I suspect though that if Apple could simple resolve to support Office then they are safe should MS for some bizzar reason decide to drop this profitable product. MS does not lose out as Apple users still purchace their coy of Office. But it means that Apple can move forth.
I think it would be dangerous to go and support every Windows API. One it would be cumbersome. Two, does this not make the system more vulnerable. Three, why would any developer support OSX unless there was a demonstrated benefit - either from loyal customer base or for technical reasons.
These statistics are nice and give a sense of well being, but are quite unreliable in the short term. How could the second-best month for MacPPC be Jan-07 , five months after the last MacPPC was sold ?
For me they serve simply as a timely confirmation of the Mac’s resurgence and a slap to any existing (not many left) nay-sayers that the Mac is becoming an irrelevant platform.
At some point I tried to use it to forecast current Mac sales, but the error was so wide that simple extrapolation of previous growth was more accurate. And if I really want a good estimate, I use Deagol’s web order number analysis .
I like the improvements that NetApplications has made to it’s free web statistics.$100.00 a month, for their full reports, they are a bit outrageous. But then I am a…(see sig).
Very very VERY nice!!. Yet I hope it’s not for next year coz I’ll be porting win soft to macos X the better half of that year.
What’s win soft? Do you mean Windows software in general or a specific product.
specific product for client that will switch to all mac over period of 2 year starting end of next year, buying macs now already running vmware and windows
Totally negative (and misinformed) article of Apple
Gorgeous as Apple’s products are, people aren’t buying them for their inherent technological superiority. For half the price of a Mac, you can pick up a PC that does pretty much the same thing. There are MP3 players that produce superior audio to the iPod. The iPhone has Wi-Fi and a beautiful touch screen, but the phone itself is middling, as is its cellular network. Even the security of Apple’s operating system, a theme the company returns to frequently, is overstated: As most hackers will tell you, it’s security-by-obscurity, a function of tiny market share, not inherent uncrackability. The CIO at one major Silicon Valley company told us that Apple’s vulnerability on this front made it unlikely that he would ever switch.
[quote author=“carbonat”]Totally negative (and misinformed) article of Apple
Gorgeous as Apple’s products are, people aren’t buying them for their inherent technological superiority. For half the price of a Mac, you can pick up a PC that does pretty much the same thing. There are MP3 players that produce superior audio to the iPod. The iPhone has Wi-Fi and a beautiful touch screen, but the phone itself is middling, as is its cellular network. Even the security of Apple’s operating system, a theme the company returns to frequently, is overstated: As most hackers will tell you, it’s security-by-obscurity, a function of tiny market share, not inherent uncrackability. The CIO at one major Silicon Valley company told us that Apple’s vulnerability on this front made it unlikely that he would ever switch.
Even the Motley Fool took issue with this article and wrote a great rebuttal .
excerpt:
Certainly, a lot has to go right in order for Apple shareholders to keep realizing market-thumping returns. But Penenberg’s Chicken Little scenario doesn’t make sense to me. Apple, after all, is the only company in the history of business to introduce a product so radical (the iPhone) that distributors such as T-Mobile and Vodafone would go to court over the right to carry it.
So if you’ll permit me, I’d like to suggest something crazy. Perhaps the sky isn’t falling, Mr. Penenberg. Maybe Apple is valued exactly as it should be.
........... Apple, after all, is the only company in the history of business to introduce a product so radical (the iPhone) that distributors such as T-Mobile and Vodafone would go to court over the right to carry it.
So if you’ll permit me, I’d like to suggest something crazy. Perhaps the sky isn’t falling, Mr. Penenberg. Maybe Apple is valued exactly as it should be.
to me this is the best evidence out there of how popular the iPhone will be in the next few years.
I wrote him because I also took exception to much of the article. He wrote back expressing the fact that he’s been a Mac user for 20 years and it’s simply Fast Companies opinion that Apple is overpriced at this level. I then sent him a quite a few additional pieces of data including Tommo’s (or DT’s, can’t remember) bit about the additional revenue from the providers being a “MASSIVE” earnings driver, thoughts on retail, Mac market share increases etc.
I’m still a little confused about how someone who’s actually been using Apples current generation of products could consider the ipod and Mac a closed system.
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