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- From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
- Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:04:01 GMT
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- hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson) writes:
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- >}
- >} As far as new machines sold, the Mac is either in first or second place.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- >This may be true in terms of market share, but if you count all manufacturers
- >of PC clones, Apple does not beat them. There is a premium on the Mac's
- >superiority, and most people just don't want to pay it. So they buy clones.
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- Just a few facts...
- There are about 120M PCs out but only about 60M that are 386SX/16 on up.
- There are about 9M Macs out but only about 8M SEs on up.
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- Currently Macs are selling at a ratio of 1:4 to PCs.
- For low-end Macs, you no longer pay a premium.
- (You still definitely do on mid to high end Macs.)
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- >}
- >} > If the mac was so successful, why are so many mac software companies
- >} >porting over their apps to windows?
- >}
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- > Because there is a huge market for PC software.
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- Well, windows is a GROWING market and Macs are a MATURE market.
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- Todd Walk
- walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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