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RE: Apple & Mac OS X Poised to take Marketshare ?

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I get the impression that Apple really wants to cherry-pick the best and juiciest parts of the marketplace for themselves, and to leave the low-margin stuff to others. They're a bit like Nintendo, where nothing they do is a loss-leader. They seem particularly focused on becoming your entertainment portal. They currently have TV, music, iPhone apps and movies, and I suspect they have their eyes on print media as well. Maybe just pennies per transaction, but there's an awful lot of transactions going on. Very clever.

Microsoft has been kind of a one-trick pony. Windows+Office has been a great trick, but it's become more of a commodity, and the threat of Linux has forced MS to offer cut-rate XP licenses to keep Linux from taking over the netbook market. Their attempts to branch out have been less than wildly successful.

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