Apple has pushed past arch-rival Microsoft to become the world's biggest technology company. Changes in the share price values of the two in Wednesday's choppy trading left the total value of Apple at $222bn (£154bn). Microsoft is now valued by investors at $219bn. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10168684.stm
Just looking at the stock reports makes me think that Apple needs to start subdividing their stocks even more. There's going to be a point where it's too expensive for anyone to buy.
Typically companies allow their stock prices to rise to weed out the short term investors. Apple is in it for the long haul, and seem to have a good idea of what they want to accomplish in the future. Luckily, I invested my college fund into Apple back after the 3G came out for $100 a share. This was the best investment I've ever made in my life and my family still rags on me for it. I haven't worked during college and made $35K a year (in assets). I have no plans to sell until it drops down to $225 or eclipses $300, which according to most analysts, neither should happen until next year. I think they'd rather have someone invest for several years than have someone try and make a quick buck during the week.
Apple knows the future of computing is through mobile devices and they beat Nokia to this. They also must have known that iPods were inevitably going to be replaced by phones and they fixed that issue too
Awesome. Not that I hate Microsoft, but Mac OS seems to be better than Windows. So why am I using Windows? Good question. 1: Apple PC's are expensive. Not that I don't want to spend 2k on a PC, but I don't want to spend 2k on a PC that's slower than a 800$ PC. 2: Mac OS/Apple puts you in a "prison" in terms of software and hardware. Almost no games, almost every program I have is unable to run on a Mac. I also like to try overclocking my system a bit, but since the hardware in their PC's (includes cooling) is so f***king bad, that's impossible. 3: I can't upgrade an Apple PC (in terms of hardware). 4: I can't put Mac OS on a non-Apple PC. iPods and iPhones rock btw.
Those are 100% word for word the reasons i have never and probably never will buy an Apple PC product.
I agre with synther too, but some of those points aren't really an issue. You can't upgrade a Mac (although... you kinda can, RAM etc) because you don't need to. It's money saving.
Isn't it money saving simply cause you spent all the money getting the Mac though? Just saying... lol /endsmartassness
It's a no-brainer. You pay out the wazoo if you are too inept with technology to manage your own hardware and software therefore you get a mac computer. Consumers pay for their stupidity.This is simple. Many things in the world work like this.
Isn't that slightly (or hell, very) ignorant? I'm perfectly capable of managing my own hardware and software, but why upgrade when you don't need to? Surely it's far more stupid intentionally giving yourself more unnecessary work. The idea behind simplicity isn't to act as a crutch for unintelligent people (although that also works, ergo broad appeal) but to save time performing pointless tasks by removing the need to do so. The only reason you end up managing hardware/software with a PC is because you're forced to. Edit: out of interest I own a PC too, and a Windows-based laptop.
I upgrade my PC because I want to play games at high(est) settings, I (want to) use demanding programs, I like to do stuff with game engines (Cryengine 2, Source) which is impossible to do with a Mac because they are simply too slow. E: Apple is always advertising about their "new technology", but in fact they just put old stuff into new designs, I go for real new technology, I have the latest generation ATi GPU, the newest Nvdidia ULV mobile GPU, not the old stuff that's inside Mac's. I have a desktop with an HD5850, wich totally destroys the fastest GPU you can put in a Mac(HD4850). My 11,6" Alienware m11x crushes every MB(P) in terms of gaming performance, GT335m(m11x) vs GT330m(macbook), the names are almost the same but the 335m is at least 2 times faster. Apple PC's may look good (well, I like my m11x better than a MacBook), but their hardware is 2 years old(and even back then it wasn't fast).
Note that synther's setup seems overwhelming until you realize that it also costs far less than the price of an equivalent mac along with over double the game and application performance. You have to pay a lot for macs unibody aluminum shell (lol)
Only things I like about Mac PC's is the new(ish) MacBook's touch interface (the various swipes you can do on the mouse-pad-thing).
