“‘PCs are going to be trucks,’ Apple’s legendary co-founder, Steve Jobs once famously said,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “What the world didn’t hear was what he might as well have muttered under his breath, ‘and Apple will make them.'”
“The report includes data on Global Desktop OS Visits, and these seem to show that OS X users now account for more site visits than Windows users,” Evans writes. “Now this could be a statistical anomaly as it is only evident in the first few weeks of the year, but given Apple’s continued growth in terms of its slice of overall PC sales, it seems credible.”
“Adobe’s figures suggest those PCs are not actually being used in any connected sense, so what are they being used for?” Evans writes. “Clearly whatever use is being made of them is relatively utilitarian, and the question technology buyers must be asking themselves as they look to the next PC replacement cycle will be if they can replace these machines with more affordable mobile devices. Or Macs.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Steve Jobs’ ultimate goal is now coming to fruition!
As we have always said, even as many short-sightedly waved (and continue to wave) the white flag, the war is not over. And, yes, we shall prevail… No company is invincible. Not even Microsoft. — MacDailyNews, January 10, 2005
Apple’s “iPhone” isn’t really a phone at all. It’s really a small touchscreen Mac OS X computer, a Mac nano tablet, if you will… the main thing about the “iPhone” is that it’s really a pocket Mac. — SteveJack, MacDailyNews, January 9, 2007
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