Question is how does Apple take advantage of the weakness in Windows? How will Apple get a bigger market share for desktops in homes and business?
MacMini with iOS
A10X CPU 4 GB RAM 128 GB Flash storage $399
The AppleTV4 is basically the same thing and sells for $199. No doubt Apple could make good margins on a $399 MacMini with iOS.
This would be huge because it would be the first time in decades the Mac can compete with Windows on price. But still offer a superior experience AND good margins.
About 300 million PC's were sold last year. Apple sold only 20 million PC's last year. Apple could easily sell 50 million more PC's if they sold these $399 units.
In 5 years Apple could have about 20-30% of the desktop user base. That is powerful.
And what the fuck can I use to open my iOS apps in my Mac Mini: buying a Touch-screen monitor or regular screen with keyboard and mouse...oops, iOS is not compatible with keyboard and mouse...I'm screwed... do me a favor, get back to your accounting and stop talking about technical subject because you sounded like an idiot!
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----------- Thankfully I am retiring an can get rid of each and every MS product I use to ear a crust. Windows 10 is a Piece of Malware as far as I'm concerned.
Wow all this coming from a guy that uses the following services,
Facebook Gmail iCloud
All the services I mentioned above and more are far worst than what's built into Windows 10. At least in Windows 10 we can turn all of those options off. People should know by now nothing is free. When you get a free service from a company you can be sure they will take something in return, in this case your usage habits, emails and data.
Apple could easily kill off two of its main rivals with two easy moves.
1. Stop Google search as the default on iOS. Google's mobile revenue is 75% iOS.
2. Sell Macs that run iOS that can compete on price with Windows PC's. Sell a Mac with A10X, 4GB Ram, and 128GB flash drive for $399. Apple would not be sacrificing any profit margins because A-series chips are much cheaper than Intel chips.
Those two moves alone would CRUSH Microsoft and Google.
Yet Cook refuses to play hardball. Its absolutely PATHETIC.
Tim "Edward II" Cook
Like Edward II, Cook is wasting his time on non-essential issues (gay rights, green, privacy, diversity) then building and DEFENDING his empire.
To have a Mac run iOS? Thank god your not the CEO, if you were Apple would probably be bankrupt by now we your ridiculous ideas. Maybe you could of said "Have a iPad Pro run Mac OS" that would of been more logical.
The last few versions of Windows have been utter disasters. Windows mobile remains a partial abortion. PC sales are slowing down. Yet analysts don’t fall all over themselves to publish “Microsoft is doomed” articles. Where are the “What Microsoft must do to survive” articles? Analysts fume that Apple is a one trick pony with the iPhone responsible for too much of its bottom line. Microsoft is basically a one trick pony with Windows, the Surface line is doing just okay, and Windows phones are a sad joke. But Apple is the one in trouble, right?
Microsoft's bread and butter were never Windows desktop OS and devices.
Volume Licensing, services (Exchange, SharePoint, CRM), cloud solutions with Office365 are real movers for Microsoft.
Are these "single trick pony" or not, that depends on your definition of that term. I think there are multiple tricks there, and then some. There's a nice "gotcha" in there. A company can decide to replace Windows servers infrastructure, for example... say, Linux is simply more affordable server licensing... but then, they'll have to replace their Exchange, SQL, SharePoint... Lync/Skype for Business... are they using Terminal Server? Moving desktops to thin clients can be economically rewarding and simplifies support - thin clients don't need AV, frequent updates... but if you move your Terminal Servers from Windows to Linux, your thin clients will not be able to fire up MS Office sitting on Terminal Server. You can virtualize Windows server, of course, but then you'll need to purchase Windows licenses, and maintain both Linux and windows servers. Can you completely drop MS Office? If you are on O365 or OLV, you are getting new versions relatively cheap... OO is cheaper, but effort to replace Office across large corporation, to train both support and employees... is it worth it? What is customer has opted for SPLA (hosted environment)?
Eventually, MS has a huge spiderweb of connecting inter-locking and cross-dependent products and services... and replacing one often means replacing more, if not all. And replacing them all is such a Sisyphus' task.
It is much easier for individuals to switch to different platform. Save for gaming, I could easily use OSX desktops and laptops at home. All the apps I really need are already there, and those which are missing, I'm sure there are replacements. My wife, iPhone user from 2009, could have her stuff done on Android or even Windows phone. Would she complain, sure. Would her digital life be severely handicapped, no. Maybe slowed down for a bit until she gets used. Large entities, however - corporations, government - quite a different story. Change that impacts individuals is nowhere as severe as change that instantly impacts collective of thousands. That is where Microsoft's stability is, imho.
The last few versions of Windows have been utter disasters. Windows mobile remains a partial abortion. PC sales are slowing down. Yet analysts don’t fall all over themselves to publish “Microsoft is doomed” articles. Where are the “What Microsoft must do to survive” articles? Analysts fume that Apple is a one trick pony with the iPhone responsible for too much of its bottom line. Microsoft is basically a one trick pony with Windows, the Surface line is doing just okay, and Windows phones are a sad joke. But Apple is the one in trouble, right?
Microsoft's bread and butter were never Windows desktop OS and devices.
Volume Licensing, services (Exchange, SharePoint, CRM), cloud solutions with Office365 are real movers for Microsoft.
It was not long ago that Microsofts profits came primarily from two product divisions.... Windows and Office.... which is why they got into trouble with regards to anti-trust since they tried (successfully) to leverage these two areas to muscle out competitors.... (Volume licensing is volume licensing of a product - not a product division). Yes, they had many other products and services, but the profits came from those two products primarily.
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do me a favor, get back to your accounting and stop talking about technical subject because you sounded like an idiot!
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Gmail
iCloud
All the services I mentioned above and more are far worst than what's built into Windows 10. At least in Windows 10 we can turn all of those options off. People should know by now nothing is free. When you get a free service from a company you can be sure they will take something in return, in this case your usage habits, emails and data.
Volume Licensing, services (Exchange, SharePoint, CRM), cloud solutions with Office365 are real movers for Microsoft.
Are these "single trick pony" or not, that depends on your definition of that term. I think there are multiple tricks there, and then some. There's a nice "gotcha" in there. A company can decide to replace Windows servers infrastructure, for example... say, Linux is simply more affordable server licensing... but then, they'll have to replace their Exchange, SQL, SharePoint... Lync/Skype for Business... are they using Terminal Server? Moving desktops to thin clients can be economically rewarding and simplifies support - thin clients don't need AV, frequent updates... but if you move your Terminal Servers from Windows to Linux, your thin clients will not be able to fire up MS Office sitting on Terminal Server. You can virtualize Windows server, of course, but then you'll need to purchase Windows licenses, and maintain both Linux and windows servers. Can you completely drop MS Office? If you are on O365 or OLV, you are getting new versions relatively cheap... OO is cheaper, but effort to replace Office across large corporation, to train both support and employees... is it worth it? What is customer has opted for SPLA (hosted environment)?
Eventually, MS has a huge spiderweb of connecting inter-locking and cross-dependent products and services... and replacing one often means replacing more, if not all. And replacing them all is such a Sisyphus' task.
It is much easier for individuals to switch to different platform. Save for gaming, I could easily use OSX desktops and laptops at home. All the apps I really need are already there, and those which are missing, I'm sure there are replacements. My wife, iPhone user from 2009, could have her stuff done on Android or even Windows phone. Would she complain, sure. Would her digital life be severely handicapped, no. Maybe slowed down for a bit until she gets used. Large entities, however - corporations, government - quite a different story. Change that impacts individuals is nowhere as severe as change that instantly impacts collective of thousands. That is where Microsoft's stability is, imho.