[Cialug] distro for ibook

[Josh More]

Those 200 clients that are willing to pay top dollar are also often
willing to pay for other things:  iTunes, iPod, iPhone, Whatever Apple
is calling their cloud service, support, extended warranties, etc.

That's why Apple plays the loyalty card as much as they do.  They're in
a deep vertical market, MS is in a (more or less) horizontal one.  Both
are valid, but great success in one often precludes success in the
other.


 

-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701



>>> Afan Pasalic <afan at afan.net> 12/8/2009 10:05 AM >>> 


Dave Weis wrote:
> Afan Pasalic wrote:
>   
>> I should read before I hit the send button :-)
>> one thing is not clear to me. Is there REALLY good reason why apple

>> computers are soooo expensive? hardware quality  can't be the answer

>> because the same hardware configuration with Win on it  is at least
30% 
>> less, some times more then 50% less.
>>
>> the cheapest macbook now is $999. I bought toshiba laptop few months
ago 
>> for $550 with, I think, superior hardware. if macbook was $600 or
$650 I 
>> would buy a one. but to pay $400 apple logo on compuer? c'mon...
>>
>> I think with these prices Apple will never reach more then 10% of
market 
>> share. more often I think they play kind of "noble product" game.
only 
>> "special people" (rich?) can have it. lice cadillac or mercedes or 
>> porsche...
>>     
>
> Let's say it costs $100 to build a specific computer. If you sell the

> computer for $110 you will net $10 and sell 1000 of them. Your net 
> profit is $10,000. If you sell it for $200 you will net $100 profit
per 
> machine and sell 200 of them. Your net profit is $20,000. Which
business 
> do you want to operate?
>
> dave
I got it. but, with $110 you have 1000 clients they pay for 
upgrade/update/maintain, comparing to 200 clients if you sell $200 a 
piece, right?
and, if the market is 10,000, with 1000 you have 10% of market. with
200 
you have  2%.

and, why then HP, Lenovo, Ford, Nike  are not doing the same?
 
:-)