I haven't noticed any commentary on this in the press but I noted the financial results of both Apple and Microsoft came out in the last few days. Extrapolating from Apple's form in the last quarter they are on a pace to do a gross of about $16 billion this year. Microsoft, which own 96% of the desktop market or so, made $36.8 billion last year.
So Apple is grossing almost 1/2 as much as Microsoft with a much smaller percentage of the desktop market. Is that perhaps due to selling hardware rather than software? There are associated costs to this of course which make selling software much more desirable but it seems that Apple has been growing dramatically in the last couple of years in total sales volume.
Hmmmm.
Posted by artandscience at January 15, 2005 11:08 AM | TrackBack