Apple prices Mac OS X 10.7 Lion at $30, coming next month

Apple today announced that Mac OS X version 10.7 Lion will be available in July as a download from the Mac App Store for $30.00 (only as an upgrade to…

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"The Mac has outpaced the PC industry every quarter for five years running"

Except in the market share quarter.

Actually, as a company, Apple has more market share in the computer world than any other company. Obviously if you combine all companies that sell Windows computers Apple doesn't when, but compared to individual companies like Dell, Acer, Sony, etc, Apple wins.

I'd have to be stupid to use overpriced hardware... I guess the world needs stupid people.

Apple=overpriced junk, I dare someone to google how much a 1 or 2gb stick cost from them, it's enough to buy a new notebook or laptop.

Anyone need a 4gb stick o wait they're $200.... and they're slow.
http://store.apple.com/us/memorymodel/ME_IMAC_S11_27

How much does a normal stick of DDR3 cost for a desktop? $35....

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600006050%20600006067&IsNodeId=1&name=4GB

And don't forget, OSX has a 100% market share in computers that are legally allowed to run OSX.

And they have 100% market share amongst Apple owners.

Moving the food around your plate to convince your mom that you finished your dinner doesn't make the amount of food on your plate decrease.

Apple still has to breach 10% market share of OS, and all that BS about a tablet being a PC and Apple beating Dell, is just parlor tricks designed to cover up the fact that after 3 decades of existence Apple has yet to breach a 10% market share for their OS in the US, let alone globally.

All this market share mumbo jumbo is designed to give the illusion that OSX is more popular than it is, and to give Apple a disproportionate voice in the market. 9 out of 10 people buying a PC will not buy a Mac, they will buy something that runs Windows. And when they go to buy their next computer, their first criteria will be OS, not Dell or HP.

OSX is a niche product as it has always been since it came into existence. No amount of re-categorization is going to change this.

Growing 28% from less than 10% isn't impressive at all. That's like saying I have 10 grams of food and I increased it by 50%. Big deal, now you have five more grams . Now someone who has 1000 grams increases it by 50%. They just added 500 grams. Percentage increases don't matter because even 28% increase wouldn't be the equivalent of a one percent increase for windows.

Pretty easy to grow by 28% when you're moving 3 million units, compared to 50 million. Stats can imply whatever you want them to, with a little creativity.

whoops. Looks like you don't need me to give him the stats lesson. You handled it just fine on your own

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pretty much what Princeton and Raswan said...

I love articles like these, because they usually invoke good debate. It is in these comments where you see facts triumph over subjective, baseless opinions. And also because like-minded people are kind enough to elaborate on things I would have otherwise said.

Amazing how many people who have no interest is Apple products, take the time to write about how bad hey are, and that we who do buy them are fools. So who's really the fool??

They are good Samaritans trying to make you see the error of your ways

With Lion, Apple are baking in quite a few useful foreword looking features and rewarding Apple users with a winning price.

It only follows that childish Windows users would lash out in frustration and envy due to the over-priced, under-featured Windows fixes.... I mean upgrades they had to fork over big time for.

Great hardware with a great OS that has proven itself to provide a significantly higher ROI compared to PC for most users.

Nice work Apple. I think it may be time for me to dump my Anti-virus, Crapware choked plastic piece of Windows junk for a computer that I can be happy with for more than 6 months and don't have to pay a small fortune to update the OS to one that actually works like it was supposed to in the first place.

It would seem that you have been talking to people who don't know what they are doing when it comes to using/purchasing a computer. I've had my current computer for nearly 4 years now. Cost me less than 1k to begin with, upgraded one or two parts totaling about 100 bucks over that timespan, and haven't had any problems with it whatsoever.
I don't have any problems with Macs, but i certainly wouldn't be willing to fork out that amount of cash for a UI that I can get easily on a windows system...

Hey flukeh, check out http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piubpwiqubf06/event/ .

Kind of impressive UI - quite a few nice tricks here that my Windows can't do.

Why is it that all our "guests", turn out to be nothing more inventive than brainwashed, itinerant, Apple fanbois / trolls, brandishing their obviously inflated sense of self worth, in a delusional manner that they seem proud of.

Since you're too self absorber to notice, I'd though I'd mention the fact that Apples and PCs are built from the same parts, bought from the same suppliers. Although most of Crapple's stuff, comes from Foxconn's slave army!

OK, first there's no such thing as "genuine plastic" so here again, your Mac is made of the same crap plastic as are PCs. Second, let's suppose, for an absurd moment, that you're right about all this nonsense you've posted. Wouldn't it be more productive and satisfying to you, if you'd simply set your iPhone on vibrate, sit on it, and go off and play quietly with your iPad. Who knows, maybe after a year or two, you'll figure out a use for it.

Oh and BTW, if the battery "craps" out on your phone, no biggie, just send it to China to have a new one installed. (Don't forget to rinse it off first)....:rolleyes: