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Apple claims 91% of the over $1000 PC market revenue in June
By Ryan on 2009-07-23 | 2 comments |
| 1 | Commander Cody | 2009-07-23 | |
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PC are cheap enough that the average person doesn't need to spend a grand on a computer.
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| 1 | Ryan | 2009-07-24 | |
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You know...reading this headline, I'm not sure that I even know of any consumer-level PCs that cost over $1000 (obviously servers, CAD/3d Modeling workstations)... I'm typing this from my acer aspire one right now and, honestly, this is more computer than I even need... I will admit that I am a bit odd, the only thing I really use my computer for is an SSH/HTTP client; certainly my usage habits are different than somebody like my mother.. But then there's my mother...I bought her one of these a few months ago, and she LOVES it. Her desktop machine (which she uses for running quicken or something like that) took a shit a few weeks ago, and her motivation to have me fix it is about 0. Her aspire is more computer than she really needs (except for, maybe, the screen. The resolution leaves a bit to be desired). So who IS buying computers that cost over a grand? Well, there are gamers...people who are most certainly not going to buy buying a mac (despite a lot of games being available on OSX, it still isn't up to speed with windows). They might spend over $1000 (I am not a gamer, so I don't really know what is required for gaming these days. If it can run tuxracer and armagetron then I'm content). Buuut....most of the gamers that I know buy their computers from newegg and put them together themselves. Even the desktops that I buy for my users at work only cost under $1k and that is with dell's "holy shit" service plan. Apple, you're dominating the over >$1000 market because you're the only one IN it. This claim would be akin to the coffee shop that I am sitting at claiming that they have 90% of the coffee market in Cross Lake, MN. They're the only coffee shop here. Reply to this |