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Apple: Three Battles Won, Nicely Positioned for the Fourth

If you look at the distribution of Walmart stores you see they tend to be where Apple stores are not. Selling through Walmart is a way to reach more customers without cannibalizing sales at Apple stores.

On top of Apple posting a great quarter, they are preparing for a great year of product releases.

First comes new iPhone hardware and software, then comes Snow Leopard, then comes the mystery touch screen device, then at the end of the year we might see new laptops when Intel updates their CPU line. All in all a busy year.

Apple vs. Dell: Capturing the Over 50 Crowd

Actually, Apple has another product under $1,000, that is the low end MacBook laptop. In addition, if you are a student at a community college, college or university or if you are teaching at one (as many seniors do) then you can get an educational discount which brings the price down another hundred or so. Moreover, a new computer from Apple includes a fully working copy of iLife. Add iWork for another $69 or so and you're good to go. Also, you don't have to pay the Microsoft tax of adding all sorts of anti-virus, anti-trojan and anti-spyware software plus the time and expertise it takes to install those.

One other point is that people over sixty grew up in the age before digital electronics. A lot of them are just not interested. I'm in the over 55 crowd and my mom and aunts and uncles are just not that into the online world. More than half do use it, but minimally. I just found out my uncle still uses web-tv. Who knew that was still around?