Re: Micro$haft desperate! Buy Windoze 7, get (virtual) XP free!

Dan Johnson stated in post 7NqdnRV8JpQDJGPUnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on
5/4/09 2:47 AM:

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Dan Johnson stated in post Qa6dnQcAia8ibmDUnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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5/3/09 12:42 PM:

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YOU'LL HAVE TO TYPE LOUDER, SNIT, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SNIPPING!

Then stop snipping. It really is that easy.

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Ah, but you cannot stop yourself. Odd... being that you are the one
complaining about it.

Their market share has had an upward trend for some time.

Sure, until very recently, that was true. But their market share increased
slowly, and remained low at all times.

They do not cater to the low end, they do not focus on corporate needs (at
least not mostly). If you look at the markets they target they do quite
well... and if you look at their bottom line compared to other hardware
makers it is hard to argue with their methods.

Sure; and it's reasonable to believe that the reason Apple's market share
remains low is that their products are just too expensive, and if they were
half the price they'd sell like hotcakes. I myself think there are more
factors than this.

What? Where did you even come up with this? If you are not going to
respond to what I write you might as well snip it.

But either way I don't think you can point to Apple as proof that
compatibility does not matter, unless your goal is low market share.

Again, what? Goal of low market share? That is an *amazing* twist: Apple
is, clearly, not interested in the low end and in some other markets - they
are interested in markets where there is considerable money to be made.

Why the obsession on market share? If it gets too low, of course, Apple
would risk losing developers - but having a decent chunck of the home market
means there is a very wide variety of relevant software... often more than
on Windows. Take basic web design tools: what on Windows competes with iWeb
and RapidWeaver and Sandvox?

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Sure, quite easily: Apple starves their systems for RAM. But they aren't
cheap even so. If you spend that money on a PC, you'll likely windup with 4
GB or more of RAM, and 64-bit Windows.

It's when you buy the cheap stuff that you wind up with 32-bit.

Apple does tend to charge a lot for memory, but that does not somehow
deminish the problems with the split between 32 bit and 64 bit Windows...

I don't see much of a problem with the split, and I think that when Apple has
a similar split, it won't be a problem for them either.

I accept that you do not see much of a problem with the split - but users
end up having to pick and if they pick poorly they risk not having legacy
hardware and software work.

It is an issue if your buy the cheap stuff and upgrade the RAM, but I don't
think this combination is too common, and it's clearly a temporary issue
anyway. In due course the cheap stuff will have 4 GB and run 64-bit Windows as
well.

Well, upgrading in any way is rare... other than to add software. Still,
the most common way of upgrading hardware is to upgrade memory, and with
Win32 you cannot use more than 3.x GB.


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