{"id":42,"date":"2008-04-30T07:20:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T07:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2008-04-30T07:20:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T07:20:56","slug":"why-apple-is-selling-more-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/2008\/04\/30\/why-apple-is-selling-more-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Apple is Selling More Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Vista sucks.<\/li>\n
  2. OS X rocks.<\/li>\n
  3. Web Apps.<\/li>\n
  4. Mac Bling.<\/li>\n
  5. Mac at Last Gen PC Price.<\/li>\n
  6. Bootcamp parachute.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Points 1 & 2 are self-explanatory.<\/p>\n

    3. Web Apps<\/h2>\n

    People are no longer afraid of not being able to run their Windows apps because… nearly everything is becoming a web application. The only thing you need to run a web app is a web browser, which is free and already installed.<\/p>\n

    Most devastating to Microsoft’s crumbling empire was\/is GMail. Email is the most used Internet service. Everyone gets<\/em> email (even possibly the AOLers).<\/p>\n

    GMail virtually eliminated spam. And now, everyone has a GMail address.<\/p>\n

    GMail, is a web app.<\/p>\n

    Web App = Operating System Agnostic. Bye-bye chains of Windows servitude.<\/p>\n

    4. Bling<\/h2>\n

    People like to show off their richesse<\/em>. Ladies will buy a thousand dollar Louis Vuitton handbag to hold a set of house keys. Why not a sleek sexy Macbook Pro to hold their SSH keys<\/a>?<\/p>\n

    5. Price… not so bad<\/h2>\n

    Macs are more expensive than a similarly equipped PC. Regardless, with a Mac you’re getting more style, functional form, sexiness, and envious looks from the Dell drones. Mac’s are simply “badass”. Walk into any Apple flagship store and everything will make sense.<\/p>\n

    Now, consider the purchase price a current Mac. Most people buy a new computer every 3 to 5 years. The price of their last computer was likely similar or even more expensive<\/em> than the current Mac \/ Macbook they’re eyeing. Perhaps this is why Mac sales can grow, even in a recessionary economy.<\/p>\n

    6. Bootcamp<\/h2>\n

    The idea of plunging into uncharted waters of Mac-land is a scary prospect to the long-term PC crowd, myself included. Knowing that if you really needed to, you could jump back into Windows with a quick reboot, or through VMWare Fusion while still running OS X… is the golden parachute.<\/p>\n

    Bootcamp eliminated the worry of becoming the prodigal son<\/a> and returning to the Windows scene, tail between legs.<\/p>\n

    Even if the newly converted<\/span> enlightened<\/em> never touch bootcamp, simply having it as an option, handholds a lot of people through the Windows to OS X transition and sells a lot of Macs.<\/p>\n

    Brilliant marketing.<\/p>\n

    Have I forgotten anything? Have your say by leaving a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Vista sucks. OS X rocks. Web Apps. Mac Bling. Mac at Last Gen PC Price. Bootcamp parachute. Points 1 & 2 are self-explanatory. 3. Web Apps People are no longer afraid of not being able to run their Windows apps because… nearly everything is becoming a web application. The only thing you need to run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6,32,102,103,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}