

Apple now owns 10.6 percent of the U.S. PC market



Acer and Toshiba took fourth place and fifth place respectively.






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By chick0n on 10/13/2010 11:04:17 PM , Rating: 1
what are you talking about?

1. You can buy all prebuild PCs at any place. I agreed that Worst Buy is probably the worst place to buy just about anything but there is nothing confusing about buying prebuild Windows based computers. people are just stupid thats all.

2. Built tough ? how? you don't even need to drop a Mac to break it, it starts a fire on its own.

3. LOL? can you name some example ?

4. That is very true, but in the end they should blame themselves for asking "cheapest price ever". You get what you paid for. Apple on the other hand, has high mark ups so of course they can hire workers in the US.

5. See #4

Just wait until Apple gets bigger market share and issues will arise. Now people are just too blindfolded to see them.

RE: Here are some of the reasons they are gaining share
By B3an on 10/14/2010 2:45:54 AM , Rating: 2
4. Isn't true at all. Apple have some of the worst support. I've known people with overheating products and Apple have literally done nothing. Then theres the famous exploding products where they have not done anything about or will only offer a replacement if the person agree's to not tell anyone about it. It does not matter what country the tech support service is in if it's still a **** service.

By robinthakur on 10/14/2010 6:36:52 AM , Rating: 1
I would say that your 'evidence' is anecdotal in nature and not representative of most Apple owners experiences with their support which I have always found courteous, free-thinking and unscripted and helpful.

The only exception to this experience is having to book Genius appointments in Apple Stores in advance to return products for a swap out if they are defective, that is really dumb given that it is a store and not an office..! Still, the last time that happened, I managed to get seen after complaining to a manager and they were fairly good about it...

"You're holding it wrong."



By Alexstarfire on 10/14/2010 5:50:03 AM , Rating: 2
1. Ummm, it is easily confusing. It might not be confusing to you and I, but if you can't see how it can be confusing they you are just kidding yourself.

2. Yea, agree with you on that. PCs can be worse built or better build, just depends on what you get. Apple isn't special in this category.

3. I generally agree, but the problem is that MS basically isn't allowed to integrate anything into it's OS anymore while Apple has basically been exempt. It's a double standard that makes no sense.

4. I'd rather get service without going in if I could. Of course, desktop PCs can generally be fixed at home if needed where as most Macs can't, especially iMacs. That's the bad part about all-in-ones.

5. I actually hate their stores. Worst store I've been in TBH, except for one store where they had 1 employee running the whole thing (it was a PetSmart).








