Google| Subject | Re: mac sales down |
| From | ZnU |
| Date | 2008-05-16 06:59 (2008-05-16 00:59) |
| Message-ID | <znu-2400C8.00593616052008@news.individual.net> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | Mayor Of R'lyeh |
In article <9pbn2452aojokouuvbbfq93bccv84u193g@4ax.com>, Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rlyeh@gmail.com>wrote:
Mayor Of R'lyeh
On Tue, 13 May 2008 00:39:14 -0400, ZnU <znu@fake.invalid>wrote:
They don't sell general purpose mass-market operating systems for generic hardware. They sell operating systems firmly targeted at the enterprise market, and make most of their money from enterprise support contracts.Mayor Of R'lyehZnUMayor Of R'lyehSteve CarrollZnU
If Apple released OSX for all these other PCs they would sell more OS units... at the cost of hardware sales.
And substantially higher development and support costs for OS X.
And as Microsoft showed us by struggling to get by and finally being liquidated in the bankruptcy procedings its impossible for a company to prosper if their main product is an OS.
Selling a general-purpose mass-market operating system for generic hardware has been a successful long-term business model for one (1) company. Ever.
The Red Hat guys will be shocked to learn that. As will Novell.
-- "More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way." --George W. Bush in Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4, 2007
2008-05-08
