Apple’s OS X operating system base grew by 0.66% between October and November to 8.87%. If they simply maintained the prior month’s pace, they will reach 9.5% in December and 10.1% in January (assuming a continued consumption of 0.6% from other operating systems per month).
Vista being a monstrous failure is only helping, and XP is nearly a decade old. It seems almost difficult for Apple’s marketsharenot to jump beyond double digits.
Take a look at Piper Jaffray’s 12 unanswered questions to see how their Q3 and Q4 sales turned out. The new MacBook and MacBook Pro have been great successes. Apple also plans to open 20-30 new stores in FY09.
UPDATE: Remember too that 10% may not seem like a lot for the operating system, but 10% of the hardware sold is absolutely huge.
Taking the train beats driving, hands down in this city. The price is about the same even with $2 gas, but travel time is shorter and hands are free to write code and read.
This week, the week between Christmas and New Years, I’m back to driving. Traffic is nearly non-existant so one can blaze in to the city. It’s the only week in Philly where this is the case.
I rent out a few apartments in Philadelphia. Each year around the holidays I try and do something to show appreciation to the tenants. They could have selected other properties, but they chose mine. They have treated the apartments with respect and have made them good homes. I am grateful.
This year I went to the movie theater and picked up tickets. It’s a simple gesture. A way to say thanks. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
It took Walmart 2 1/2 weeks to publish their co-created Coke commercial on YouTube (originally aired before the previews before The Quantum of Solace). I’d been looking for it online since catching it before QoS on opening night. Oddly enough, nobody cam’d it or ripped it for upload on any major sites. Enjoy!
“… my MySpace friends and Twitter list…” (0:32) is a double-take moment for those of us who got in on Twitter when it was only used by the geek crowd. Twitter mentioned in a mainstream ad!? S’wut?
Figured it had to be expensive product placement, so asked Biz Stone:
@biz Did Twitter pay for placement in the new Coke pre-movie ad? 10:21 AM Nov 18th
Side note: Walmart has plenty of room for improvement in their online and social media presence. They could have auctioned that product placement off for some decent VC supplied money and should be getting their videos out to manymanymanymore services more quickly…
@nbryan Seriously. My response is, “It’s the best?”. The highlights were decent, but long periods of blah between the laughs. in reply to nbryan#
@brad_sukala High price! I’m willing to try another couple episodes. I’ve been told the best are episode 210 “Sandwich Day” and “Cooter”? in reply to brad_sukala#
WordPress plugin FAIL… Tweets while sleeping, from a setting I specifically turned off, is not cool. Sorry for the tweet bombing. #
@peterbromberg I think manufacturers over produced. Now we’ve got a few years of consolidation. BK and bailout aren’t the right approach. in reply to peterbromberg#
@braverydanger That’s a WYSIWYG IDE. You don’t write code with it. You drag and drop and use your experience to pretend you’re a newb ;) in reply to braverydanger#
Have you really thought about this? You don’t really want Twitter to make money. Debate on this usually makes me cringe because arguments typically stem from fandom without thought for what happens later.
If you’re a diehard fan of the Twitter service, rooting for their profitibility is counter-productive. You should realize a move towards real revenue is going to affect the Twitter experience, and almost certainly in a negative way.
Or at least in a way that will affect Twitter’s value to you.
Personally, as someone in technology and media, I want @biz to bring in the green and prove web companies can rake in cash. But I understand that when this happens, the value proposition of Twitter for my needs will negatively change.
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