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Apple: 12% of the total personal computer market in the USA. 92% of the high-end (over $999) personal computer market, which is around 10% of the total. If you
by cstross 16y ago
Apple: 12% of the total personal computer market in the USA. 92% of the high-end (over $999) personal computer market, which is around 10% of the total.
If you're going to have 10% of the market, which would you rather have -- the bottom 10% or the top 10%?
(I'll concede your point about the choice between potential success/certain doom for Microsoft in the tablet field, but Microsoft obviously doesn't see it that way: they see it as a choice between success and success, and obviously they want the more lucrative version.)
- rbanffy 16y ago> they see it as a choice between success and success And that is absolutely baffling. It will be studied for decades after Microsoft is gone and be the ground upon countless doctoral theses are built.
- cstross 16y agoTwo words: "corporate groupthink". Microsoft won't be the first huge company to succumb as a result of adhering to the very outlook that made them big in the first place. (Anyone else remember IBM in the run-up to 1994?)