“Last week’s column on pondering a new PC, and the possibility of throwing over Windows for Apple, brought in a tidal wave of forum posts and email — and more evidence that the consumer-PC market is turning in Apple’s favor,” Jason Fry reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“Email after email came from people who had recently switched from Windows to Macs, or were planning to do so once OS X 10.5 — Leopard — comes out next month,” Fry reports. “Many of those emails came from people who were longtime, dedicated Windows users, including engineering types who had resisted what they saw as Apple hype. (Another theme that emerged from my correspondence: Vista was the final straw for a number of Windows users. Microsoft has a problem on its hands there.)”
“I know looking through an inbox is anecdotal evidence — but there was an enormous amount of it,” Fry reports.
Read the emails offered in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Christer,” “Melanie ‘MacSmiley'” and “Michael” for the heads up.]
Better late than never….
momentum is building…
Much better article than the NY Times.
To Zune Tang…
Positive proof that once you go Mac,
you never go back !
ohhh boyy here comes the revolution…
“Apple hype” admitted by by people that have not used Apple.
The difference in most Windows and Apple users?
Most Apple users HAVE used Windows and know that Apple is better.
Most Windows users have NEVER used a Mac and tend to think Apple is all HYPE. They are making a judgment without ever having tried it.
It won’t be long now.
“Many of those emails came from people who were longtime, dedicated Windows users, including engineering types who had resisted what they saw as Apple hype.
This is true, the sylish MacBook Pro’s running Windows and the secure Mac OS X are definatly a hit with engineers at my company.
However a bunch of us saw some dangerous writing on the wall. As we walked down the line of MacBooks, we noticed all of them were glossy screens except for one MacBook Pro at the end.
We all suddenly realized that our hardware choices were being forced upon us. If Apple went all glossy, we might not be able to buy a regular screen laptop from them which we need so bad because we spend hours and hours in front of our computers, travel with them etc and exposed to different lighting conditions.
The Apple hardware is most definatly trendy, successful looking and attractive.
But it also has to be functional as we need them to work 8-10 hours a day without annoying reflections.
Dumping Windows and switching to Apple Macintosh?
Preposterous. Power users rock Windows. Pretentious, namby-pamby toy aficionados use MACs. Simple as that. You know what I’m talking about; you see them at Starbucks with their MAC laptops… “See my MAC? Isn’t it pretty?” Whatever.
The day I see 1 Windows user switch to a MAC is the day pigs fly.
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who cares if they’re just coming on board now. the opportunity hasn’t passed to buy AAPL stock. get thru this week first. then buy it in stages for the holiday buyers.
hope to hear some new telcom providers soon…
Cheney…
You’re absolutely right. I hear people say, Macs suck, they’re pretty, but pretty useless, etc., etc.
Then I ask: Have you actually USED a Mac?
Silence or uh, well, uh, no…
Apple still needs to do a better job advertising.
The iPhone ads are perfect. I’d love to see Apple produce similar ads for the Mac and Mac OS X.
Simple: I can do this… like this. No need to say more.
will this be the week that aapl stock finally get over the $150 a share hump?
I was waiting for Leopard and a multi-touch iMac. When I realised I would be getting a Leopard family pack for the existing Tiger Macs and multi-touch was a no-goer, I went for the 24″ iMac.
Screen is wonderful (glossy not a problem in my office), Parallels ‘transported’ my HP laptop so I get more physical desktop back (VPN, Outlook, printing, hibernation all fine in coherence), and it is REALLY fast.
Only issue, the brightness only goes down from sun-spot to glaring. It needs a lower level still.
Steve Jobs said that Apple wanted to be aggressive with the iPhone in the run up to Christmas, hence the price cut but I’d like to see them be equally aggressive about the Mac. There’s surely a great opportunity to build on the current momentum and get Macs into a lot more hands. The launch of Leopard would be an ideal time to really get the ball rolling.
Doug the Engineer. “This is true, the sylish MacBook Pro’s running Windows and the secure Mac OS X are definatly a hit with engineers at my company.
Once i were coulnt spell engeneer, now i is won. ‘Definatly’, maybe even definitely also.
MW lost, as in – teaching English has been lost.
drbeyers,
If the announcement on Tuesday is something completely unexpected, then the stock might break $150 this week. Otherwise, look for it to do so at the next earnings report.
-jcr
Uhm, if I were an engineer, I think I could find a film that I could put on my display to turn it from glossy to matte.
Articles like this just make me feel all warm and comfy on the inside. But more importantly, its a sign, a small one, but a sign none the less that people still have their own brains, and maybe, just maybe there’s a few that are waking up from their stupor.
“I know looking through an inbox is anecdotal evidence — but there was an enormous amount of it,” Fry reports.
But if it’s enormous amount of anecdotal evidence, it becomes statistics.
You said, “We all suddenly realized that our hardware choices were being forced upon us. If Apple went all glossy, we might not be able to buy a regular screen laptop from them which we need so bad because we spend hours and hours in front of our computers, travel with them etc and exposed to different lighting conditions.”
DOUG. Please note that you can buy screen overlays that make the screen matte. Also most Macs allow you to use another monitor and the Power Macs require that you buy your own monitor anyway.
So, what is the problem????? I cannot believe that such a simple issue would give you any problem.
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GEEE, I have an iBook G3 that is 5 years old and has a dim screen (old technology and age). I use a piece of folder paper, cut to fit and it slides like a hat over the screen. Problem fixed. PS, it works great under normal light but the super bright office lights give it a challenge.
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MDN = force. As in “May the (Apple) force be with you young Jedi.”
Sounds like anecdotal statistics to me. I use them daily at work.
But if it’s enormous amount of anecdotal evidence, it becomes statistics
Actually, it only really becomes statistically valid if the evidence is drawn from a statistically valid sample that represents a cross-section of your total target audience.
For instance, and without wishing to create a political discussion, if the NYT says that everyone in the USA believes that the current executive administration couldn’t run a bath, the statement would be invalid from a statistical point of view simply because a) the NYT has a certain readership demographic, b) the NYT is – to a certain extent – left-leaning and likely to attract malcontents who rail against any Republican administration and (most importantly) c) the people who will e-mail in are the people who feel most strongly about a subject i.e. they self-selected to be part of the survey.
So, in reality, the only way we can say that Apple’s sales are on the move is by comparing their growth in CPU unit sales on a year-on-year basis against the industry as a whole. Here the evidence is more concrete and something on which you can bet the farm.
@Zune Tang:
“The day I see 1 Windows user switch to a MAC is the day pigs fly”
Duck….
Pigs flying?
I get dibs on the umbrella concession!
@AJK
Wanna see the mac product line go south in quality? let Apple do a step function growth of the Mac product line. Dell did that commodity bull$h## and look what happened. After all the sucker in the corporate and personal computer world were fleshed out market share , quality and customer support went from second to last. Customer support wet to India with the likes of Cisco. I bought an Apple router for the first time so I wouldn’t have to talk to those people.I got tired of hearing “We don’t support Macs” in a thick Indian accent. A global company whose products are designed to be inter-operable with other peoples devices should have no such excuse if they want my money.
I think Apple is growing at the right pace and if it wants to make inroads in the corporate world then so be it. Create a separate division like it did for education and go for it. People have been bitching and complaining about Apple’s high prices for years but they have only complained about Apples quality when they have ramped products with on edge designs PB 5300 , first G5 Imacs, Cube etc. I’ve rarely heard people complain about Apple machines value and never their cost of ownership as compared to the rest of the industry.
I love how the last guy in the WSJ article says that you should stick with Windows… BUT ONLY after you erase your hard drive, apply all sorts of patches & updates, do a whole bunch of other hocus pocus to try to make your computer stable, and say about 1,000 prayers that your Windows machine will never fail again. So typical of a Windows user justifying the hell that he has endured his entire life.
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