UPDATE: This post was a mistake for two reasons… Firstly, and most importantly, I made the mistake of having an argument on the internet. That’s enough of a stupid move right there. And much as I would like respond to the rebut of this post (especially after being called a “special kind of idiot troll”), I’ll leave it as it is. Some might call it “too-late maturity”. Some will definitely call it “giving up in defeat”. Pick whichever you like. My second mistake would be that the person I have offended is the lead developer for my *hosted* blogging engine of choice, so the only result of furtherance could potentially be bad for me.

Accordingly, I considered deleting the post, but that would perhaps also be a mistake. (Pretending like it never happened, etc.) So I’ll just leave this as it is (not counting this updated preface, of course). So… Let’s move on, shall we?

Oh, and Dad… You wouldn’t be interested in this post, anyway, so you may as well just skip it. ^___^

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marco:

(via David Chartier)

According to NPD, in June, nine out of 10 dollars spent on computers costing $1,000 or more went to Apple. Mac revenue market share in the “premium” price segment was 91 percent, up from 88 percent in May.

This sounds impressive, but there’s a small problem: as far as I can tell, these numbers are for sales at retail. This rules out nearly every computer purchased by businesses, creative professionals, and gamers — all likely to have higher and more expensive requirements than the average bargain-basement home buyer — since such sales tend to be made through the manufacturers’ websites and direct sales representatives.

What this means, effectively, is that there are very few PCs sold for more than $1000 at Best Buy, Costco, and Wal-Mart, which isn’t really groundbreaking news.

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Sigh… Why do so many miss the point?

1. That’s like saying that “the most popular $25k+ car sales” don’t count because governments, corporations and truckers buy trucks and vans.
2. Since when do most large companies buy $1k+ computers? You know those ThinkPads and tiny grey Sony note PCs everyone has? Yeah… Not over $1000.
3. While business will get bulk deals from distributors, where is it you think “creatives and gamers” buy their PCs? It’s called retail. Saying that someone purchasing a PC online from a store doesn’t count is like saying buying an iPod from the Apple Store doesn’t count as a retail purchase.
4. Businesses like PCs because they come pre-installed with the applications they need / think they need. Gamers like PCs because there are 100 to 1 more games for that platform. (Though I know a lot of gamers who have been using the newer iMacs because they play games shockingly well.) But do not begin to tell me that creatives prefer PCs. Sure, maybe in the 3D sector, but referring to just that aspect of creative rules out almost everything else “creative”.
5. The article wasn’t about how many sub $1k PCs are sold in comparison to $1k plus PCs. It was only about the $1k plus PCs. That’s like saying an article about murderers being 90% male doesn’t count because there are more shoplifters than murderers and 99% of shoplifters are women. What’s that have to do with this article?
6. The article needn’t say “MS learn from Apple before rolling out Windows 7” as Apple’s hardware sales have nothing to do with MS’ software sales. The only real computing hardware MS makes is the Xbox 360, and that has no bearings on Apple products.

Seriously internet, do you think you can ever learn to have a proper argument? I think before people start debating or writing anything (on the internet or anywhere in life) they should be forced to read a book like this, so we can have real discussions.