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To: sylvester80 who wrote (5042)	6/7/2011 4:00:16 PM
From: rnsmth	Respond to of 32692

We were just in Vancouver, BC, visiting friends. She bought an iPhone a couple of years ago. This year she bought a Droid, and likes it. That is fine with me because since the bought the initial iPhone, they have purchased two iPhones for the kids and a 27" iMac for the family room. Next up, 2 iPads. Good deal for AAPL holders, this family of 4.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (5042)	6/7/2011 5:00:03 PM
From: zax	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

Fanboys, prepare to be screwed once more, just more of many in the long and storied history of Apple marched forced upgrades and platform and legacy abandonment. Is Apple planning to kill off Mac OS X? pcpro.co.uk As Gerald Ratner will testify, standing on stage and panning your own products isn’t a particularly effective sales strategy. Yet when Steve Jobs announced last night that he was “going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device”, it wasn’t a million miles away from the “total crap” quip that cost Ratner his job and, very nearly, his company. Does Apple really want or even need full-fat Mac OS X? The evidence increasingly suggests not. In four short years, iOS has acquired a 16.8% share of the smartphone market, according to Gartner: almost double the 9.3% market share Apple’s spent 10 years building with Mac OS X. On tablets, iOS and the iPad accounted for 80% of all sales in the first quarter of 2011, according to Context. iOS is mainstream: Mac OS X isn’t and likely never will be. Over the past couple of months, there have been continual rumours that Apple is testing the iPad’s A5 processor in its MacBook range, suggesting Apple believes iOS could stretch further than smartphones and tablets. The only part of Apple’s portfolio where iOS doesn’t make sense is in the high-end Indeed, recent developments in Mac OS X itself have borrowed heavily from iOS, not least touch gestures and, crucially, the Mac App Store. Even the new version of the operating system itself is a download-only “app”, available exclusively from the Mac App Store. You can see why a transition to iOS is appealing to Apple. Why would Jobs want to keep giving software companies a free ride on Mac OS X, when it could migrate MacBooks to iOS, mandate software purchases via the App Store only, and take a 30% cut of the revenue? The only part of Apple’s portfolio where iOS doesn’t make sense is in the high-end. Yet, Apple’s already discontinued its Xserve range of servers and the company barely speaks of its corporate customers these days: it’s almost exclusively fixated on the consumer market. Could Apple eventually phase out Mac OS X? I suspect it’s already doing so.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (5042)	6/7/2011 5:12:08 PM
From: pyslent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

Let's pretend that your opinion actually matters, what do you think of a person like me, who carries an Android phone but just bought an iPad after hearing about the new notifications? The fact is, the high end of the phone market is dominated by the iPhone. So those are some well-heeled morons you're looking at. Might do you some good to learn a little from them, as you've never impressed me with your intellect...

To: sylvester80 who wrote (5042)	6/7/2011 6:08:18 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32692

This is the weirdest thing. That post came out garbled on the computer I'm using. It looked like "For the life of me, every time I see a s#Y_$ulY I know I'm looking at a moron." So let me guess. Was the missing word "mirror?" ;-) I'm kidding of course. I just couldn't resist the joke. Especially after being called a moron by you. And just FYI, deciding that a person who happens to prefer a smartphone other than the one you like must necessarily be a moron is really, really stupid.