[Ubuntu-PH] Fwd: Linux bigger competitor than apple

["Yosif ali" Roque Morales]

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From: Yosif ali Roque Morales <queroph at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Subject: Linux bigger competitor than apple
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 [image: *]<http://www.osnews.com/story/21035/Ballmer_Linux_Bigger_Competitor_than_Apple#>
Ballmer:
Linux Bigger Competitor than
Apple<http://www.osnews.com/story/21035/Ballmer_Linux_Bigger_Competitor_than_Apple>
 posted by Thom Holwerda <http://www.osnews.com/editor/11> on Wed 25th Feb
2009 10:17 UTC
 [image: Icon]Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer had some interesting things to
say yesterday about which companies Microsoft sees as its competitors in the
client operating system space. You'd think Apple was their number one
competitor - and you'd be wrong. Microsoft sees two other competitors as
their primary adversaries<http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/macbook/microsoft_ceo_scoffs_at_mac_share_gains.html>
.

During a speech for investors, Steve Ballmer showed the following slide to
his audience:

 As you can see, Microsoft sees piracy as its biggest competitor. *"Number
two market share goes to Windows pirated, or unlicensed,"* Balmer
said, *"That's
a competitor that's tough to beat, they've got a good price and a heck of a
product, but we're working on it."* This isn't exactly new information, but
it's interesting to see it spelled out so clearly.

Much more interesting is Microsoft's idea of Linux and Apple, According to
Microsoft, Linux is a bigger threat to the company than Apple, placing Linux
above Apple in the marketshare figure pie chart thing. *"Linux, you could
see on the slide, and Apple has certainly increased its share
somewhat,"*Ballmer said. He went on to explain how the company views
Apple:

I think depending on how you look at it, Apple has probably increased its
market share over the last year or so by a point or more. And a point of
market share on a number that's about 300 million is interesting. It's an
interesting amount of market share, while not necessarily being as dramatic
as people would think, but we're very focused in on both Apple as a
competitor, and Linux as a competitor.

As much as I find Ballmer a rather annoying figure, he does score a major
point here. About 300 million PCs were shipped worldwide in 2008. Round and
about 9-10 million of those were Macs. Apple's market share might be
increasing, but it's still relatively irrelevant compared to the bigger
picture. As we said
yesterday<http://www.osnews.com/story/21029/_Making_Sense_of_Mac_Market_Share_Figures_>,
Apple might be doing swell in the United States, but on a worldwide scale,
Cupertino still falls a bit to the wayside.

In any case, it appears that Linux (and piracy) is a larger blip on
Microsoft's radar than Apple, and it's not hard to see why. With an economy
that's not doing very well, people will opt for cheaper products. Apple
cannot offer those, but Linux and piracy can.


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-- 
Yosif Roque Santos Morales
====================
School Administrator
Asian Academy of Business and Computers
Educational Management Consultant
Professor, Sociology, Strategic Studies and Islamology
Ubuntulinux user
Linux machine # 365046.
https://sites.google.com/a/ympn.org/memltd/Home
http://lamundofloss.blogspot.com/
http://mafatihulhikmah.blogspot.com/
http://strategicresearchinstitute.blogspot.com/
Mobile number +639275642816
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