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Yes...but how do you sell even more hardware? If your users are locked by not having alternatives because of your software. So what you're saying is correct, an
by midrus 6y ago
Yes...but how do you sell even more hardware? If your users are locked by not having alternatives because of your software. So what you're saying is correct, and what the parent comment says is also correct.
They might not make as much money from software, but that software leads to more hardware sales.
If people started to use linux on macs, and they find everything they need works fine, some people might consider cheaper alternatives to macs
- kreetx 6y agoAt the moment they would sell their hardware with very good CPUs. We already want those laptops, but since they don't run linux (some of us) won't buy them. I guess it depends on which group is larger.
- AceJohnny2 6y ago> but since they don't run linux (some of us) won't buy them. I guess it depends on which group is larger. The frustrating thing with us geeks is that we overestimate our market segment. At Apple's scale, we are insignificant. As a publicly-traded company, Apple publishes a fair amount of operating info, such as their sales for their various product lines: https://investor.apple.com/investor-relations/default.aspx https://investor.apple.com/investor-relations/default.aspx From there, looking at the 2020 Q4 "Financial Statements" PDF, we can find the "sales by category" and see that in the "12-month ending Sept 26 2020" they sold $28,622M worth of Mathe previous year. Alternatively, they sold $9,032M in Q4 2020 (July-Sept) vs $6,991M in Q4 2019. Of course we'll have to wait another quarter to get a glimpse of how well the new M1-based macs sell (while considering that they're only part of Apple's Mac lineup.)