Comments on: Future Implications: Apple's complete home dominance

I understand 5.6 percent is not too significant, and the nation's top vendors are releasing Windows systems, but Apple's rise in market share has been unprecedented.

[bschaff]

Great Article.... If you believe in fairy tales!

I must agree that apple makes some great products that are innovative and in many respects more user friendly than most of it's competition, but I don't agrree with your notion that Apple will rule all in consumer electronics.

Examples:

The iPhone has had huge publicity and has remarkable features, but still hundreds of other smart phones exist.

No one can compete with iPods. Period!

Apple TV? There are to many other time and place shifting devices out there which are far more prominent in the market place!

Any Mac computer is a thing of beauty, but 5.6%? You're putting the cart before the horse here. Will Apple play a role in this and other areas of consumer electronics, most definetly. Will it have the best or greatest product in each of those categories? I don't think so!

[bschaff]

Great Article.... If you believe in fairy tales!

I must agree that apple makes some great products that are innovative and in many respects more user friendly than most of it's competition, but I don't agrree with your notion that Apple will rule all in consumer electronics.

Examples:

The iPhone has had huge publicity and has remarkable features, but still hundreds of other smart phones exist.

No one can compete with iPods. Period!

Apple TV? There are to many other time and place shifting devices out there which are far more prominent in the market place!

Any Mac computer is a thing of beauty, but 5.6%? You're putting the cart before the horse here. Will Apple play a role in this and other areas of consumer electronics, most definetly. Will it have the best or greatest product in each of those categories? I don't think so!

[ltunes53]

i think that it will eventually end up 50/50

eventually, i think apples (almost) entire product line will be no. 1 or 2 in its
category ie. ipods will share the top spot with either samsung or creative
(eventually they will catch up), amazon will compete with itunes, apple TV will
have competition from sony, macs will be toe to toe with vaio's (or something
else), iphone will face off with palm or motorola (not blackberry, well not yet
at least), mac os i hope will never reach the dominance that windows has
because once it does it is doomed to fail... i am a mac user, and although i
want apple to grow and prosper and for more people to use macs, if apple
ever truly catches microsoft, that will be the beginning of the end

[ltunes53]

i think that it will eventually end up 50/50

eventually, i think apples (almost) entire product line will be no. 1 or 2 in its
category ie. ipods will share the top spot with either samsung or creative
(eventually they will catch up), amazon will compete with itunes, apple TV will
have competition from sony, macs will be toe to toe with vaio's (or something
else), iphone will face off with palm or motorola (not blackberry, well not yet
at least), mac os i hope will never reach the dominance that windows has
because once it does it is doomed to fail... i am a mac user, and although i
want apple to grow and prosper and for more people to use macs, if apple
ever truly catches microsoft, that will be the beginning of the end