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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison This thread is misguided. The Mac never had, & subsequently lost, dominant marketshare. When the Macintosh was introduced in 1984 it had 100% market share for GUI computing.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil And? If it was about marketshare, Apple would make it about marketshare. It's about experience. Apple almost folded in the late 90s because the Mac marketshare was too low for developers to bother with.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dlux Oh, and make the internal connector the same as the external... Let's pray they don't use the same boneheaded non-polarized connector that USB uses, it's annoying as hell to be always flipping it around when it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross PPC was as scalable, maybe more, but there was no interest. Correct, Apple and IBM had no interest in establishing a higher-performance alternative platform. If they had, they would not have completely dro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Virgil-TB2 This site is not known for it's English usage and grammatical correctness to say the least. That's for sure. The word *it's* means IT IS or IT HAS. The word you want is "its."
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Quote: Originally Posted by tundraBuggy When will the iPhone wannabees ever learn???? 40,000 Apps, 1 Billion downloads, Robust SDK....if you do not have a rich SDK and developers who are drooling to port their already developed iPhone apps to th…
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I hope Apple wakes up and realizes they don't need to extort such high prices for their hardware. Any company that has $18 billion in the bank has way too much profit margin!
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I hope it knocks some sense into Apple, who seem to think that their customers will pay ANY price for the hardware just for the opportunity to use OS X. The company has so much cash it's obvious that their profit margins are much higher than neces…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ownence Ca va? J'arrive tout juste car je vois que vous etes des passionnes de vacances et de voyages Je viens de me pogner le livre de Decouvertes Touristiques de Steve Mclean mais je me demandais si vous ne sav…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sabon Just because the person that wrote the article is clueless does NOT mean that Apple is. Apple is VERY aware of everything that is happening including how we feel about different choices they make for their comput…
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To everyone here that's frustrated about the mac mini, I recommend you let Apple know your feelings. It's more likely to have an effect than just posting in this forum. You can leave feedback at: http://www.apple.com/feedback Let them kno…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SSA ...I have always thought Apple should have maybe a slimline tower with some type of Apple panache that uses 3.5" HDDs so that it would make a perfect little Apple branded media center. The 2.5" HDD makes the Mac M…
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If there ever was a press event scheduled for October 14th, it's obvious that Jobs changed it just to prove all the rumor-mongers wrong!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Phong Gosh, I thought someone would at least ask about the Mini at this year's event, like they did last year. Even that didn't appear to happen. Ask? This was not a stockholders meeting, it was a marketing present…
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Quote: Originally Posted by walshbj As a boss at NBC how do you explain all the revenue you missed out on by leaving iTunes in the first place?? Moreso, they missed a HUGE opportunity to sell video from the Olympics, the biggest TV event of th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by joelsalt Maybe even a battery that makes it a portable computer (hook it to someone's tv without taking the power cord) Decode h.264 in high defintion on battery power?
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Quote: Originally Posted by FuturePastNow That guy doesn't know shit. And his picture is of the current mini. Also, every Wordpress blog says that, by default. Party pooper \
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Quote: Originally Posted by K.C. It's speaker ? I think it means the speaker unit that's attached to the iPod by a cable. And by the way, the word *it's* means IT IS. The possessive form is *its* and like the other possessives it has no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Apple's iPod has been easing tensions with Iraqi citizens in a real-world experiment that has seen the music player provide on-the-spot translating for a fraction the cost and size of earlier systems. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by McHuman I have a 42" samsung LED LCD tv. it's phenomenal and only cost about $3000. Why is their little 30" monitor over $4k? Something doesn't add up here.. Production volume?