Comments on: The Sub-$1000 Opportunity?

By: Enrico Bianco

Enrico Bianco — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:23:49 +0000

@Joey: I’m not sure I see how this is advantageous for developers, except that this should encourage people to develop software for Macs because they are now dominating the part of the market that’s willing to pay good money for well-performing hardware and software…

I’m pretty sure that PC’s still dominate the $3000-4000+ computer market, though. You just can’t play as many games on Macs. =)

By: David Janes

David Janes — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:59:35 +0000

It occurs to me there’s a fantastic $1000+ opportunity for manufacturers like Dell, HP, etc. to establish “Lexus” brands that “just work”, have great power-on experiences, have tested peripheral lists, etc. and still substantially undercut Apple.

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:14:49 +0000

I get the impression from the blogs I read that nearly everyone either runs Linux or Apple. They either pay nothing for their software or they pay dearly for it. Of course the vast majority are in the middle, running inexpensive commercial software (i.e. Windows). I suppose the middle isn’t as fun to blog about as the extremes.

By: Joey deVilla

Joey deVilla — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:02:28 +0000

By the bye, one clarification: by "opportunity", I mean opportunity for developers.

By: Enrico Bianco

Enrico Bianco — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:32:25 +0000

Might be, but anybody who would like to take advantage should be careful not to get painted as being just the cheaper alternative. Consider the first Microsoft Laptop Hunter commercial where the lady is filmed saying “Guess I’m not cool enough for a Mac.” I can’t imagine why the Microsoft marketing people didn’t leave that on the cutting room floor. That one statement right there implicitly cheapened the brand. =P