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Our Blogs The BeerFiles Apple's limitations exposed with Leopard delay | Apple's limitations exposed with Leopard delay |
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| Written by Stan Beer | |
| Saturday, 14 April 2007 | |
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The question for Apple is - does it really matter? In days gone by, there would have been no question. Apple the computer company would have put any Mac project at the top of the list. Today, however, the realities are that Mac, although growing in market share, has about 4% of its market, while iPod has about 80%. Now iPhone is not exactly iPod and it is going to play in a different market space, the mobile and smartphones space. However, as Steve Jobs pointed out last January, Apple only has to capture 1% of the 1 billion unit a year mobile phones market to make a killing. For those of you who aren't mathematically adept, 10 million times US$499 is nearly US$5 billion. With that sort of revenue flowing in, Apple can afford to keep its adoring computing fans waiting a little bit longer. Let's face it, what are they going to do - defect to Windows?{moscomment}
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