XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-14 09:32, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 1/14/26 12:20 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2026-01-14 03:06, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> On 14 Jan 2026 06:31:02 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >>>> Lawrence D´Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >>>>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:40:02 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> In fiscal year 2025, Apple's revenue by segment is as follows:   
   >>>>>> - Mac generated $33.71 B in revenue,   
   >>>>>> representing 8.1% of its total revenue.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> What would the unit sales be, though? Assuming an average selling   
   >>>>> price of, say, $3000, that translates into 11 million units for the   
   >>>>> year. If the average time a user keeps a machine is 3 years, that   
   >>>>> means the installed base is a bit over 30 million Macs.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> This would be roughly consistent with the idea that something like   
   >>>>> 10% of users on each platform have Steam accounts. It also means   
   >>>>> that macOS is left in the dust by desktop Linux.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ... not just the $3000 is wrong, the three years is. More likely 5-7.   
   >>>   
   >>> But now you’re going back into pre-ARM machines, which are more of   
   >>> museum pieces, not really worth using any more.   
   >>>   
   >>> And I’d say my $3000 figure is conservative. Apple users do tend to fit   
   >>> the category of “more money than sense”, don’t you think ... ?   
   >>   
   >> Your figure is NONSENSE.   
   >>   
   >> Mac Minis start at $599.   
   >   
   >   
   > Make that $999 with 24 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD.  Face it, Apple are   
   > thieves.  You're a willing victim.   
   >   
      
   Not thieves.   
      
   And you cannot take the obvious lesson from this:   
      
   People pay that price because they believe it's WORTH IT.   
      
   And what makes you think must people NEED "24 GB of RAM"   
      
   I'm a very busy user and I'm currently running 9 programs--including   
   Safari with dozens of tabs open and I still have nearly 2GB free on a   
   16GB system.   
      
   The fact that your pubescent brain can't get is that people who use Macs   
   find they work very, very well. I've worked with, sold and support both   
   Macs and PCs since the late 1980s and in all that time, I've only   
   encountered two people out of hundreds if not thousands who ever tried a   
   Mac and didn't want to continue on with using it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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