Apple Marketshare on the Rise?

Mac Rumors ^ | 10/11/2005

[chilepepper]

it was so staggering that Apple stock dropped 10% in a single day the stock analysts were so impressed.

[Revolting cat!]

This is not a joke (and you paid for it!) There was a scientific study completed a year or two ago that proved beyond the doubt that your grandmother was correct:

An apple a day keeps the doctor away!

[SamAdams76]

Well there are a lot of fools playing the stock market who make uninformed and kneejerk decisions. Always was and always will be.

After all, Apple only had the most profitable quarter in its history. $430 million in profit on some $3.68 billion in revenue in the last quarter. But I guess because Wall Street "analysts" were predicting $3.73 billion in revenue, it caused a lot of the day-trading idiots to panic and sell, sell, sell.

Well I'm sure Steve Jobs is just devastated over only attaining 98.6% of Wall Street's revenue projection and only making a measley $430 million in profit over the last three months. Looks like he'll have to throw in the towel, fold the company and yield the MP3 market to Samsung or Sony.

[jude24]

the fragility of its outer skin.

My friend and I came up with a solution for our iPods that works great. We get the little plastic sheets that they sell for PDA screens. It protects mine quite well.

That said, it would have been a better idea for the iPod Nano and new video iPods to use the same brushed aluminum skin that the old iPods used.

[ordinaryguy]

anything that is recompiled from one architecture to another is "ported"

Not really, that would be simply recompiling, not porting.

Besides, it wasn't "recompiled from one architecture to another". OPENSTEP ran on Intel. Rhapsody was based on OPENSTEP, and was released immediately for x86. Rhapsody came from OS X. Should we say that OS X was ported from x86? The fact is, it has always run on x86, so it wasn't recompiled from any architecture to any other architecture.

[chilepepper]

not correct.

'recompiling' is generally known as recompiling software for the same architecture, while 'porting' is the FIRST compilation of a program under a new architecture.

the reason it has a special name is to signal the fact that there are usually library, compiler, linker, loader and perhaps even assembler issues that have to be sorted out.

if you want to know what real fun is, you should try porting a language compiler to a new archecture for the first time... been there, done that.

you clearly haven't ever done real porting for a living, whereas i was a UNIX (BSD and SysV) kernel hacker go look in the history books to find out what a kernel hacker is...