quadra 610

In the December quarter, the company controlled 63 percent of the market with 5.1 million units...

Not bad at all. 

Apple's usual:



Let's be reasonable. There *will* be times when performance won't blow the doors off. 

It's best to take a longer view of the matter and see how Apple does over the next 1-2 years. A slight decline is no reason to start with all the hand-wringing (mind you, the hand-wringing has been going on since the early part of the last decade.)

lawrance said:

I wish Apple would come out with a Surface competitor. 

What is the incentive for Apple to put resources into developing a product to compete with a product that barely has any market traction?

latifbp said:

designr said:

How delightful. Now the true (insulting and bigoted and intolerant and authoritarian) colors are beginning to show. I'm surprised it took this long.

But if someone who is religious comes to my business I serve them like I would everybody else, putting my beliefs aside. My beliefs are mine to express but acting on them in refusing someone service is plain wrong. Why can't you wrap your mind around this simple concept.

This is the basic principle here. 

This is the difference in thinking that's going on. One puts the good of others, of all of us collectively, regardless of religious belief, at the forefront. The other is fundamentally self-centred, and if left to its own devices, ultimately injurious to others who most require the material benefits of full social inclusion. 

This latter form of thinking is why the United States is still stuck in the mud on basic social issues that others have put to bed a long time ago.

Me, me, me. MY rights. MY freedoms. MY personal comfort. And so on. This is the problem. ATTITUDES. 

I love you folks down South of the border - we're brothers and sisters, and we have a shared heritage. But socially, some of you really need to get right with the notion that there is just as much virtue in understanding that your liberties have necessary limits, as much as there is in the exercising of them. 

designr said:

quadra 610 said:

Why are you folks *this* far behind on basic, humanitarian issues?

You're starting to sound pretty ridiculous. Getting a pizza or cake or photographer or DJ for your wedding (gay or straight) is not a "basic, humanitarian issue." In fact, you do a tremendous disservice to true "basic, humanitarian issues" by implying that they are.

I'm just sitting here laughing at the nonsense being defended. This shouldn't even be an issue.