Apologies

[William T Goodall]

For not posting about the monstrous evil of religion lately. I've been  
distracted by the new iPhone SDK (which is very nice) and thinking of  
what sort of software to create with it that lots of other people  
haven't also thought of :-)

In other Apple related news

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/03/18/apple-spanks-rest-of-computer-industry-in-february-sales

"The latest NPD sales data for February was released yesterday, and  
Apple had plenty of good news. According to NPD, notebook and desktop  
sales are both up, revenue is up, and Apple is performing much better  
than the industry as a whole. Seems the freakout earlier this year,  
whenAPPL dropped 40 percent in value, was unwarranted after all.

In unit sales, Macs represented 14 percent of sales last month, up  
from 9 percent for February 2007. The dollar share, however, is a full  
25 percent of the market. While other PC makers continue to make  
cheaper commodity machines, Apple continues to make better machines  
and earn more for each one. Looks like the market sees the value of  
the Mac + OS X package.

The growth year-over-year also shows interesting trends. While the  
industry showed a 9 percent growth in unit sales, Apple sold 60  
percent more than last year. In terms of revenue, the industry grew  
just a paltry 5 percent on its 9 percent gain in units while Apple's  
revenue is up 67 percent. Notebook sales are up 64 percent of the  
industry's 20 percent, reflecting the overall trend towards more  
mobile computing we've seen for a couple years now. But surprisingly,  
while the industry recorded a 5 percent decline in desktops, Apple  
posted an increase of 55 percent."

But what about Linux Maru.

-- 
William T Goodall
Mail : wtg at wtgab.demon.co.uk
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"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant  
market share. No chance" - Steve Ballmer