Comments on: Apple's Earnings Preview: Firing On All Cylinders

By: Edward, Severna Park, MD

Edward, Severna Park, MD — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:33:03 +0000

Yea, so that means when ur in the airport seeing all the Mac's, you're probably also seeing the 8% that has the money to be willing to buy a Mac…

Please, Marginal utility gained from a Mac is much less than the marginal cost of it… Just go buy a laptop and then take the money you saved and buy an iPod…

By: Jason, Detroit Mi

Jason, Detroit Mi — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:30:37 +0000

My point on the Apple Unix was that it's not the same as buying a Unix PC say from HP and being about to run all Unix programs on it. Apple Unix is not compatible with most Unix software.

OS X is Unix no argument there. However it's not true Unix in the fact that I can't buy a Unix app and run it on OS X without it being ported first. It's like trying to run a program written for Dos 1.0 and praying it will work on Vista. That's the point I was trying to make. BTW i'm not bashing it just pointing that out.

By: Dan, Boston, MA

Dan, Boston, MA — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:47:49 +0000

It's amazing how the people posting here see nothing but Macs everywhere and everyone they know has bought a Mac and is blissfully happy with it – when the company has 8% market share in the PC space. Seems like people see what they want to see and validate their own choices.

By: doug, Mtn View, CA

doug, Mtn View, CA — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:17:36 +0000

Joe in Indiana no doubt got his tin foil hat on crooked this morning. Better get back on the sedatives as well, big fella.

By: Glabbaflaknanar, Core, Earth

Glabbaflaknanar, Core, Earth — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:22:59 +0000

ben, littleton, co:

You are wrong. MAC OS X 10.5 (on Intel) is UNIX, period.

The Open Group has licensed its trademark to Apple:

www dot opengroup dot org slash openbrand slash certificates slash 1190p.pdf

By: Convert Ed - LA, CA

Convert Ed - LA, CA — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:59:46 +0000

Apple convert since October 2006. First with a 24" iMac. Then a 20" iMac in Jan 2007. Then a MacBookPro — which my business partner derided. I installed Parallels myself, then installed Great Plains software (runs our accounting/inventory), Crystal Reports and Harvard Graphics to run on the XP side and never looked back. I do as much work on the Apple side as possible (including MS Office), but the XP side runs fine. It's very odd to have all of the icons on the same desktop, but only at first.

Anyone who thinks AAPLs licensing agreements are one-sided hasn't dealt with Micro$oft. Apple has a long run ahead…

By: Mike Bradley, Sarasota Florida

Mike Bradley, Sarasota Florida — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:03:37 +0000

I think the writer that predicts an Apple share in the future as high as 80% may be correct. OS X truly rocks but not only at the iMac and MacBook consumer level. Leopard Server will start making serious inroads into corporate networks. Not only in NT installations but also in Linux territory, just wait and see.

As a side bar, I just flew back to States from UK and was in several airports waiting for connections. I could not believe my eyes … there were glowing Apples everywhere, US and UK, far out numbering PC Laptops. This was not the case two years ago on my last trip when mine was often the only Mac in sight.

The tide has indeed turned and I think it is gaining momentum.

By: Joe, Indianapolis,IN

Joe, Indianapolis,IN — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:02:52 +0000

Apple has managed to do one thing that seems to be quite easy for any company in this country to do these days: convince a bunch of people to pay a lot more for something that amounts to nothing. LOL At some point, you'll all realize that the "higher perceived value" you think is in an Apple product is actually their way of getting you to pay for their R&D and tooling costs. They will be squeezed like a lemon at some point…and their sales, like their stock, will put a bitter taste in a lot of mouths. So start dumping it now.

In addition to my earlier statements, I'll add that I just checked with two of my peers (not in the computer science or IT arenas) who purchsed Macs for thier homes in the last year. To date, they have had nothing but problems with their machines. One of them said "I could have stuck with a Windows-based system at half the price and dealt with the same problems I'm having with the Mac. I basically paid more to get the same sort of annoying, persistent problems." I laughed at him and hung up. Apple will laugh at you and hang up in your face when you realize you're paying a lot more for nothing. The only thing is that you'll be on your way to the dumpster and they'll be on their way to the bank with your money! LOL

By: Ben, Littleton Co

Ben, Littleton Co — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:43:43 +0000

You are right and wrong, os x is BASED of unix, "fully compliant UNIX technology"( from link below) id does not say it IS unix. You just cant buy any engineering app that is for unix and run it on os x, its the same thig as calling Linux unix, your kind of right but not really. so before you go telling people that they do not know what they are talking about, make sure you your self do first.

By: Tom. Las Vegas, NV

Tom. Las Vegas, NV — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:43:15 +0000

wonderful. more uninformed bs comments, this time from James in Troy, MI.

2nd I’m really surprised more people aren’t ticked that apple is a closed OS/Hardware PC. Could you imagine the complaining you would hear if M$ only let you run windows on a winbox made by M$. OMG every fool on the planet would be taking them to court. Gotta love the double standards we have in this country.

there's this little thing called boot camp. look it up.

will people please realize that today's mac is not the same as the mac of the 90s? and maybe do a little research before you post. you anti-apple tards are just as bad as the mac zealots.