[Ti] Market Share: 2.3% -- That's NOT good press, coupled with the loss

[Steve Wozniak]

At 5:57 PM -0500 2003.01.16, MBurke6225 at aol.com wrote:

>"Apple said it will increase spending on research and development in the current quarter to position itself for an eventual recovery."

I wish I could come up with such well-worded remarks.

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>I think we can expect an energized response from Apple over the next two years that will be memorable to say the least.  Expect other breakthroughs, people.  To capture the future Apple has to keep defining it and Jobs knows it.  I would love to get Woz's take on this.

I guess we have been able to get users to switch to OS X from MacOS, even if not from Windows. Being so different a platform, I worry if that means that MacOS and OS X users are each part of even a smaller market share when taken individually.

I feel that Apple is on the right (great) track (leading edge features and apps and style and ease and etc.) but I have trouble accepting that market share moves the other way.

I'm surrounded by Macintosh users but I notice that I'm often in places where almost nobody has one. I stay happy about this by way of a lot of rationalization, and not wanting to be a part of what everyone else is. That 'specialness' is worth paying a little extra, to me.
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Regards,

Steve  (is tv wake zone?)