Comments on: Jobs doesn’t care about selling Macs http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/16/jobs-doesnt-care-about-selling-macs/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Peter S Magnusson http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/16/jobs-doesnt-care-about-selling-macs/comment-page-1/#comment-328805 Peter S Magnusson Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:27:38 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/16/jobs-doesnt-care-about-selling-macs/#comment-328805 Oops, I forgot to blatantly self-promote. I wrote something similar back on July 25th after conference call with investors: "The reality is that ... the bulk of Apple’s growth is from traditional sales of Macintosh computers. Of the ... $1B in growth year-over-year ... at least two thirds comes from growth in sales of desktops and laptops." http://petersmagnusson.com/2007/07/25/iphone-sales-disappoint-now-dont-forget-the-mac/ Oops, I forgot to blatantly self-promote. I wrote something similar back on July 25th after conference call with investors:

“The reality is that … the bulk of Apple’s growth is from traditional sales of Macintosh computers. Of the … $1B in growth year-over-year … at least two thirds comes from growth in sales of desktops and laptops.”

http://petersmagnusson.com/2007/07/25/iphone-sales-disappoint-now-dont-forget-the-mac/

]]> By: Peter S Magnusson http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/16/jobs-doesnt-care-about-selling-macs/comment-page-1/#comment-328799 Peter S Magnusson Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:22:12 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/16/jobs-doesnt-care-about-selling-macs/#comment-328799 It would be curious if this was intentional. From a pure "muscles" point of view, grabbing a few percentage points more of desktop/laptop market share would be huge for Apple, and would help all their efforts. It's not as if they're not doing good desktop/laptop products, they just don't have a good channel strategy. There are so many people I meet who would consider buying a Mac, but besides the TV ads, there's not much reaching-out going on. It would be curious if this was intentional. From a pure “muscles” point of view, grabbing a few percentage points more of desktop/laptop market share would be huge for Apple, and would help all their efforts. It’s not as if they’re not doing good desktop/laptop products, they just don’t have a good channel strategy. There are so many people I meet who would consider buying a Mac, but besides the TV ads, there’s not much reaching-out going on.

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