John Gruber writes on the wonderful daringfireball.net, no matter how many zunes MS claims to have sold, I, nor he, have ever seen one in the wild, nor have I ever saw someone buy one at CompUSA or BestBuy.
Money quote : “Seriously, I’ve never seen a single Zune in the wild.”
May 2007
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The Apple Comment by Denny Grabowski
Apple is growing without any doubts. The stock market is not the only index to show these developments. The more important question is in which fields Apple increases. More than 60 percent of Apple’s Macs sold have been MacBooks and being a laptop user presents his own difficulties. I mean not the battery charging or the fear that the machine gets stolen. To own a laptop means freedom in every duty. Its makes you free of cables and gives you the chance to get online everywhere, and this is the point! Open wireless networks in a pub are not so safe like at home. An Internet metrics analyst said these week that the portion of people surfing the web using a Mac has doubled. That is the other side to measure Apple’s success. “The amazing story since last summer has been how well the Mac is doing. For the longest time, Mac hung around 3 percent of the operating systems using the Web. But it picked up around last summer and has nearly doubled its market share”, said Geoff Johnston, Analyst at WebSideStory.
And more and more people could change to Macs. The release of Microsoft’s new operating system Vista wasn’t successfully, maybe an indicator of Microsoft’s monopoly end. Everybody knows that OS X Tiger is a very safety system and very secure and those things show the very deep argument to switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s operating system. Unfortunately means that a growing fear. The more user are using operating systems like Apple, the higher the danger to get attacked by cyber criminals. A Mac user is probably a more interesting goal than a user with a cheap PC from an Internet Warehouse. The online attacks are not only just for fun attacks made by kids, such attacks are made to earn money. And its could be easier to damage Mac OS X with harming codes than to find IT Specialists to program the resistance protection stuff, because virus protection wasn’t a big business so far (fortunately).
