Whither Apple?
October 24, 2007 8:46 AM   Subscribe

Jason Kottke is the first to ask about Apple's new dominance:
This will likely be abbreviated: "Is Apple the new Microsoft?"
Well, not the first....
posted by Chrysostom (34 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: um, two of your links are the same, otherwise it's a post to kottke's blog post and a stock price why? it's not that this is a bad topic, just an odd way of phrasing it along with some tepid links. -- jessamyn



 
"...at least they make the trains run on time"
posted by Slothrup at 8:51 AM on October 24, 2007


What a crap post.
posted by cellphone at 8:53 AM on October 24, 2007


no
posted by sveskemus at 8:55 AM on October 24, 2007


Jason Kottke must be one of them time travellin' fellas, since I've been equating Apple and Microsoft for at least 10 years. Apple is, if anything, MORE controlling than MS, if such a thing were possible. They just happen to have better software and hardware to be controlling about.
posted by DU at 8:55 AM on October 24, 2007


But I don't understand. If we can't trust a gigantic monopolistic mega-corporation, who can we trust?
posted by kittens for breakfast at 8:56 AM on October 24, 2007 [1 favorite]


bukottke
posted by Stynxno at 8:57 AM on October 24, 2007 [2 favorites]


also, i wish i could flag this post twice. I forgot to select the offensive tag.
posted by Stynxno at 8:57 AM on October 24, 2007


Apple creates a bunch of well designed, well appointed, but ultimately disposable products that appeal to our worst consumerist and status conscious instincts

Microsoft is a predatory company with monopolistic instincts that seeks to destroy our devour its competition with unscrupulous business practices.

So, no.
posted by psmealey at 8:58 AM on October 24, 2007


"What a crap post.
posted by cellphone"


Maybe if "cellphone" had chosen "iPhone" as a user name, he wouldn't feel this way....
posted by HuronBob at 8:58 AM on October 24, 2007


Maybe if HuronBob would stop making obvious jokes, he'd get laid.
posted by cellphone at 8:59 AM on October 24, 2007


So are we Slashdot now? Because I have some opinions I have been keeping to myself, and I'd like to vent.
posted by the number 17 at 8:59 AM on October 24, 2007


No, they're worse.
posted by the dief at 9:00 AM on October 24, 2007


Dude needs to get his own identity beyond being a guy who loves a company. That's some unrequited love there.
posted by GuyZero at 9:01 AM on October 24, 2007 [1 favorite]


Why do I want to break things?
posted by tepidmonkey at 9:01 AM on October 24, 2007


Apple doesn't "dominate" anything other than the MP3 player market and the, errr, Apple-compatible computer market. Given its history, the current market cap is a pretty amazing success story, but it still represents a small percentage of the overall PC industry.

It could be argued that they used their clout for ill in the digital music market (locking in users to their proprietary format), but even that is pretty tenuous; you could always use non-DRM music on their player, they're already moving to non-DRM music, and Amazon is catching up fast from nowhere a month ago. A good argument could also be made that there would be no non-DRM market at all if Apple hadn't successfully created the DRM market first.

So, no.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 9:02 AM on October 24, 2007


Oh come on.

"Microsoft BAD! Apple GOOD!"
"Two legs BAD! Four legs GOOD!"
posted by yhbc at 9:02 AM on October 24, 2007


One: It's a pointless question.

Two: Kottke is by far not the first to ask...
posted by chasing at 9:02 AM on October 24, 2007


So are we Slashdot now?

No. Even Slashdot wouldn't post a 2 paragraph blog entry from Kottke.
posted by eyeballkid at 9:02 AM on October 24, 2007 [2 favorites]


Apple is the new Dell.
iPod is the new Zune (?!).
"is the new" is the old.
posted by mattbucher at 9:04 AM on October 24, 2007


Who is Jason Kottke?
posted by jonson at 9:07 AM on October 24, 2007 [2 favorites]


Apple's current market cap is higher than IBM and Intel, but so is its P/E ratio.

Regarding market share of computers: "Apple's share of the U.S. PC market in the third quarter was 6.3%...Worldwide it has just over 3% of the PC market."* It's got a long way to go to dominate the personal computer market. They're doing well in portable music devices and music downloads. Let's see how they do in the highly-competitive cellphone and home entertainment markets.
posted by ericb at 9:08 AM on October 24, 2007


Kotkke is the new MetaFilter.
posted by Poolio at 9:10 AM on October 24, 2007


I think the fact that Apple pays people to virally market their products ahould be reason enough to delete all Apple-related posts.
posted by rocket88 at 9:11 AM on October 24, 2007


This is sort of a dumb post.
posted by sneakin at 9:11 AM on October 24, 2007


What I should've said was: What eyeballkid said.
posted by sneakin at 9:11 AM on October 24, 2007


"Is Apple the new Microsoft?"

Well, they DO have two button mice now....
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:13 AM on October 24, 2007


Though, after reading these links, I'd have to say that the differences between this article and this article are striking. One says "PC World" and the other says "Mac World." (Dude. If you're not reading your own post, why should we?)
posted by eyeballkid at 9:13 AM on October 24, 2007


I'll never understand why people are "fans" of companies. Anyone who celebrates anything having to do with "market capitalization" is a moron.
posted by space2k at 9:13 AM on October 24, 2007


A mature and reasoned response, cellphone.
*slow clap*
posted by absalom at 9:14 AM on October 24, 2007


eyeballkid FTW!
posted by MrMoonPie at 9:16 AM on October 24, 2007


I can report that this new overlord feels snappier!
posted by hackly_fracture at 9:16 AM on October 24, 2007


Didn't this Kottke chap coin the phrase microcredibility?
posted by fire&wings at 9:17 AM on October 24, 2007


Bad Apple.
I'm just curious why iTunes video downloads are so big.
posted by bastionofsanity at 9:17 AM on October 24, 2007


Kottke was big back in the 90s, and so was Microsoft. Coincidence? I think not.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 9:17 AM on October 24, 2007


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