Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
Pirates of the Silicon Valley
If you haven't seen it, watch it. Steve Jobs was indeed a tecnilogical genius, however, he was not a marketing genius or charismatic leader. Steve created Windows. He could not sell it. Bill Gates was the man with the big ideas and he made it the industry standard through brilliant marketing and salemanship. Apple was an option to Windows. People tired of the constant viruses and buggy half-@$$ed OSs heard about this small computer company, Apple. Steve was briliant in hiring people who COULD sell and DID have charisma. They marketed to the elite and elite wanna-be's. They set prices just above middle class comfort to give the illusion of it actually being better. They sold to the sheep.
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People aren't 'switching from Windows to Mac', they are buying a Mac IN ADDITION TO a Windows PC, not as a replacement.
Market research bears this out, according to NPD Group, one of the leading market research firms in America, more than 80% of Mac owners also own a PC which they use a either a primary or secondary computer.
In addition, more than half of all Macs in use today have Windows installed as a virtual machine.
Indeed, it is probably not a coincidence that the recent surge of interest in the Mac started at about the same time that Apple switched from the traditional Power PC architecture to the Wintel architecture, and introduced Boot Camp, making it easy to run Windows on a Mac.
Market research bears this out, according to NPD Group, one of the leading market research firms in America, more than 80% of Mac owners also own a PC which they use a either a primary or secondary computer.
In addition, more than half of all Macs in use today have Windows installed as a virtual machine.
Indeed, it is probably not a coincidence that the recent surge of interest in the Mac started at about the same time that Apple switched from the traditional Power PC architecture to the Wintel architecture, and introduced Boot Camp, making it easy to run Windows on a Mac.
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