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Apple fanboys are dillusional that their little platform matters in the big picture. I work for a brokerage firm, as a senior programmer and our statistics on users are about 5% osx about 8% linux/unix, the rest is various flavors of windows. Our software is written in java, and even though you may think its a big fail, java is thriving in the financial sector because it does deliver on the cross compatibility promise. And with computers getting so fast, the virtual machine aspect of java fades away into the background. So in the environment
where our customers are financially savy well off investors, they choose windows, who is still choosing apple? And why should Microsoft put the resources in to develop Mac compatability for zune or for the Windows Phone?
It is not half the market like you said, it barely registers on a pie chart. Sorry, but MS has been languishing for at least 5 years basically doing nothing, and Apple has not gained any appreciable market share in the pc market. Outside of the iPhone and the iPod, i would have to call Apple a big fail. Really if they didn’t have the mobile platform, only the fanboys would care. The big push from the fanboys should be to open the sale of the OS. I guarantee you that if you could install OS X freely on any pc, it would have a 30% market share within a year. Then, they would matter – for now they are a consumer electronics company whose main business is iPhone, iPod and they dabble in pcs..
Oh and i have a mac on my desk and love it, even though the keyboard and mouse stink.
-Yakov
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Topic:
Boxee back (again) on Apple TV – http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10460120-260.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
Time for Apple to get serious about video – http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10459494-261.html?tag=mncol
Boxee / Boxee Box – http://www.boxee.tv/
Vudu / Walmart – http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10457631-260.html?tag=mncol & http://www.vudu.com/
Roku – Netflix – Amazon VOD – http://www.roku.com/ – http://www.amazon.com/vod – http://www.netflix.com/NetflixReadyDevices
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