Is Apple behind G5 rumors, to keep interest in the platform?
If everyone believed that the G5s would be here NO SOONER than 2003, would that create a mass exodus away from the Mac platform to the soon to be 2+ Ghz dark side?
If it WOULD create a mass exodus, I believe it's in Apple own interest to retain current power users. That means, fueling the G5 rumors would possibly forego short-term sales, but mitigate the exodus. Of course all of this fueling would be behind the scenes and very clandestine, mind you.
I find the Apple announcement of 40% of the customers to the Apple Retail stores are not current Mac users to be a curious one. I do not live by an Apple Store, but I'd be curious of a quick-exit poll conducted by somone that does. Just ask everyone leaving the Apple store WITH PRODUCT IN HAND if they are (were) a windows/mac/no user before the purchase. That would be interesting.
If it WOULD create a mass exodus, I believe it's in Apple own interest to retain current power users. That means, fueling the G5 rumors would possibly forego short-term sales, but mitigate the exodus. Of course all of this fueling would be behind the scenes and very clandestine, mind you.
I find the Apple announcement of 40% of the customers to the Apple Retail stores are not current Mac users to be a curious one. I do not live by an Apple Store, but I'd be curious of a quick-exit poll conducted by somone that does. Just ask everyone leaving the Apple store WITH PRODUCT IN HAND if they are (were) a windows/mac/no user before the purchase. That would be interesting.
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