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Who Will Come Out Ahead from e-Book Success in College Classrooms?

Apple is going to be the clear winner in this market. Their tablet is going to blow open a whole new category just like the iPhone did in the cellular market, and no one will be able to effectively compete against their platform consisting of a brilliant, stable and easy to use OS, iTunes, laptops, large screen desktops, iPhones, iPods and iTablet. Graphics, imbedded video, interactive capabilities, superior operating environment. Apple is the winner. Period.

Dell's Perplexing Strategy

The Dell troll is full of dribble here.... Apple doesn't need to "overtake HP or Dell or IBM" to be successful... by all measures (product quality, customer satisfaction, OS, customer service and support, easy of use, PROFITABILITY, etc ) they are much more successful than any of these companies, and they have certainly have shown that you CAN make money with PC's.

So here's Dell: So we build Chevys (and not very well) and now we're going to try our hand in the Maserati market? This company is totally off its rocker. And at the price of the Adamo, it comes bundled with the magnificent (SIC) MSFT Vista to try to compete with Apple and OS X. Good luck and watch this stock continue to sputter.


On Mar 19 07:54 AM cloughg wrote:

> Question - I presume your stats only focus on the consumer market
> share and CPU share? 80% of Dells revenues come from business to
> business sales therefore I would expect a predominately consumer
> focused manufacturer such as apple to be streaks ahead in the consumer
> space.
>
> 2008 Stats for Dell's consumer only business - Notebook units grew
> 43% in 2008 while desktops units were down 18%. Dell grew Notebook
> units in the consumer space 1.9 times faster that the rate of the
> industry concluding that Dell is gaining market share in the consumer
> space.
>
> Overall stats (consumer & business sales) are: Apple sold 2,5million
> Macintosh® computers during quarter Q4 compared to Dell's 4.47 million
> units. Therefore despite Dells Q4 decline in market share share they
> still shipped nearly double the number of units that Apple shipped
> in Q4.
>
> In 2008, Hewlett-Packard Company accounted for 20% of Intels net
> revenue (17% in 2007) and Dell Inc. accounted for 18% of Intels net
> revenue (18% in 2007). No other customer accounted for more than
> 10% of Intels net revenue including apple.
>
> The Adamo notebook on its own is not about gaining market share for
> Dell, im sure Dell dont beleive that launching a single notebook
> will do this.
> What is it will do is re-enforce the brand and image change that
> Dell are attempting to make and will continue to make throught 2009.
>
>
> The Adamo is a consumer gimic. Consumers buy gimics as they are emotive
> buyers if Dell continue to drive innovative designs like this in
> the consumer space it will continue to change the perception about
> Dell in both the consumer and business markets which can only be
> a good thing.
>
> The real money for Hi Tech companys is in the large corps - Servers,
> Storage and services are where the big $$ sit. Not in shifting tin
> like PC's, notebooks into consumers etc - there is simply no margin
> in this area.
>
> Tell me one fortune 500 that runs on apple? None
>
> Thats why apple will never overtake Dell or HP or IBM the dont have
> crediability to play with the big boys in the market area which makes
> the real money

Apple vs. Dell: Capturing the Over 50 Crowd

To describe the Mac Mini as "technologically outdated" is a gross misstatement as a Mac is much more than the electronic components contained in the box. The advanced OS and bundled software provided even in this lowest priced Mac still makes this total "system" far more advanced than a comparably priced wintel machine that comes with more "updated" hardware.

The one key factor that you fail to mention in the potential for Apple with an older audience is that their products are far easier to learn and use, and most importantly, to maintain and support. Most of those older Americans, at or near retirement age, had IT departments to support their windows machines, something they won't have in later life. Clearly, Apple has tremendous potential in this market.

Three Reasons I Chose Microsoft over Apple for Home Media

What a ridiculous position. First, getting all your advice from the "pros" at MSF - of course with the easy of use and reliability of MSF based systems, that's the kind of support you need, but no one else can get.

Further, I love the fact that as you speak of not having multiple boxes, you end with statements about buying and installing even more equipment.... You are not a typical consumer! And your whole position is grossly misleading.

And as a testament to the incredibly easy world of MSF (sic), you tell us it will take you a "few weeks" to get it all installed and up and running before you can give us more info... to quote...

"I'm going to write up a more substantive review (and maybe do a video tour) on Vista Media Center and my XBox 360 Extenders in the next few weeks once I get all the pieces set up and in place."

Thanks for all your great advice on exactly what NOT to do... including buying a game counsel as a dvd player which is now obsolete as it is based on the failed MSF supported format of HD DVD. DUH!