Posted by Hitman Hero on October 20, 2010, 12:52 pm
Steve Carroll wrote:
> wrote:
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>>> Clavicus Vile wrote:
>>>>> Clavicus Vile wrote:
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>>>>>> Meanwhile back in the real world most people keep on using
>>>>>> Windows, ignoring
>>>>>> both Apple and you.
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>>>>> Which is why there's an article in major newspapers, such as the
>>>>> front page
>>>>> of the Money section in today's edition of USA Today, as well as
>>>>> a blurb on
>>>>> the front page of the Business section in today's Chicago Tribune.
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>>>> Meanwhile back in the real world most people are still using
>>>> Windows, regardless of whose article or blurb you can point to,
>>>> even though you didn't actually point to any.
>>
>>> That's right. I didn't point to any. All I did was tell you the
>>> name of two
>>> newspapers, the editions of those two newspapers, and the sections
>>> of those
>>> two newspapers where those two news items appear.
>>
>> Bottom line: you're full of shit.
> It *still* galls you that Apple makes the money they make and commands
> the high profile they do despite having less than 5% world market
> share, doesn't it? Now *that* is "actually" hilarious;)
> The only valid argument I've seen you make recently is that Apple
> doesn't compete on the low end. For all your constant trumpeting of
> the fact one would think this is news, bit it isn't. Of course, anyone
> looking at what has happened to the low end in the last decade would
> figure there would be at least a few companies that would stay out of
> that end of the pond. Outside of the Mini, which doesn't count IMO,
> Apple isn't in the low end of computer system sales, they never have
> been and they seem to be doing just fine in spite of it.
> "Meanwhile back in the real world..." we notice that, among many other
> things, Apple Computer Inc. is:
> * The holder of ~90% market share for computer systems costing over
> $1000
> * The maker of the most popular computer system ever made by a single
> company in the history of the world
> * The maker of the most popular portable music devices in the history
> of the world.
> * The maker of the most popular music store in the history of the
> world... a store that changed the face of the entire music industry...
> forever.
> * The maker of one of the most popular cell phones ever invented...
> which thoroughly humiliated the rest of the industry in just a few
> short years.
> * The maker of the best tablet device in the world to date, which,
> like its Apple brethren, is soon on its way to becoming the world's
> most popular device in its category.
> Almost forgot...regarding the thing you found so "hilarious" (about
> Apple and video editing), Apple's FCP software holds ~50% of the non-
> linear editing market (even outperforming Avid in market share!)
> I now return programming back to ""Clavicus Vile", who is more than
> satisfied to limit his view of the "real world" for the sake of his
> own 'hilarity' ;)
LOL!
Posted by Chance Furlong on October 20, 2010, 1:46 pm
On 10/20/10 11:52 AM, Hitman Hero wrote:
> LOL!
Is that still the extant of your intelligence and vocabulary, airhead?
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>>> Clavicus Vile wrote:
>>>>> Clavicus Vile wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Meanwhile back in the real world most people keep on using
>>>>>> Windows, ignoring
>>>>>> both Apple and you.
>>
>>>>> Which is why there's an article in major newspapers, such as the
>>>>> front page
>>>>> of the Money section in today's edition of USA Today, as well as
>>>>> a blurb on
>>>>> the front page of the Business section in today's Chicago Tribune.
>>
>>>> Meanwhile back in the real world most people are still using
>>>> Windows, regardless of whose article or blurb you can point to,
>>>> even though you didn't actually point to any.
>>
>>> That's right. I didn't point to any. All I did was tell you the
>>> name of two
>>> newspapers, the editions of those two newspapers, and the sections
>>> of those
>>> two newspapers where those two news items appear.
>>
>> Bottom line: you're full of shit.
> It *still* galls you that Apple makes the money they make and commands
> the high profile they do despite having less than 5% world market
> share, doesn't it? Now *that* is "actually" hilarious;)
> The only valid argument I've seen you make recently is that Apple
> doesn't compete on the low end. For all your constant trumpeting of
> the fact one would think this is news, bit it isn't. Of course, anyone
> looking at what has happened to the low end in the last decade would
> figure there would be at least a few companies that would stay out of
> that end of the pond. Outside of the Mini, which doesn't count IMO,
> Apple isn't in the low end of computer system sales, they never have
> been and they seem to be doing just fine in spite of it.
> "Meanwhile back in the real world..." we notice that, among many other
> things, Apple Computer Inc. is:
> * The holder of ~90% market share for computer systems costing over
> $1000
> * The maker of the most popular computer system ever made by a single
> company in the history of the world
> * The maker of the most popular portable music devices in the history
> of the world.
> * The maker of the most popular music store in the history of the
> world... a store that changed the face of the entire music industry...
> forever.
> * The maker of one of the most popular cell phones ever invented...
> which thoroughly humiliated the rest of the industry in just a few
> short years.
> * The maker of the best tablet device in the world to date, which,
> like its Apple brethren, is soon on its way to becoming the world's
> most popular device in its category.
> Almost forgot...regarding the thing you found so "hilarious" (about
> Apple and video editing), Apple's FCP software holds ~50% of the non-
> linear editing market (even outperforming Avid in market share!)
> I now return programming back to ""Clavicus Vile", who is more than
> satisfied to limit his view of the "real world" for the sake of his
> own 'hilarity' ;)
LOL!