Re: Mac shipments up 12% [Was: focus!]
- From: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
- To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Mac shipments up 12% [Was: focus!]
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:34:23 +1000
<quote who="Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller">
> Sorry Jeff, I simply don't see it. Neither the momentum you are seeing or
> the sudden incredibility of their platform.
It's not sudden - they've been submarining it for years now. To great
effect.
> So the general market was up 11% and Apple beat that by 1%.
I was less interested by that than the general upswing of Apple itself.
> Anyway, Apple's fortune's are a bit off-topic for this list. My original
> point was simply that we should be very careful about fan boying Apple and
> believing that mimicking Apple is our way to success.
I prefer to think about it as "understanding a competitor's success and not
being railroaded by it".
- Jeff
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