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Submission + - Apple passes $300B market cap; 2nd in the world

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In May, Apple surpassed Microsoft in market capitalization to become the second largest company (by that measure) in the world. Today, with its shares riding high, Apple passed $300 Billion in market cap, entering a club of two along with the still-gigantic ExxonMobile. And investors' targets could bring Apple beyond where Exxon is now (though Exxon continues to soar as well). Perhaps Wall Street is catching on that, despite the discontinuation of their underused Xserve, Apple is in fact becoming one of the key tech providers to Enterprise, a position that even a year ago seemed laughable. If you consider the iPad to be a PC (which enterprise increasingly is), then suddenly you realize that Apple is expected to climb to 12% market share in 2011. Plus of course, they have those little things called iPods and iTunes...
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Submission + - Apple support company sues customer for complaint (tekgoblin.com) 1

Submitted by tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: An Apple authorized Service Provider called Stemgraph is suing a customer who complained online about poor service from them. The customer Dimitrios Papadimitriadis took his iMac to them because he was seeing gray spots on his LED panel.

The Greek company Stemgraph recommended a full interior cleaning of the iMac and performed the service for Dimitrios. He then got his iMac back and noticed moisture behind the screen and that it still did not work properly and took it back to the repair center. Stemgraph then told him that they needed to keep his iMac to replace the LED screen and he would be without it for another week.

Comment Not even close (Score 1) 3

by freeztar (#34683952) Attached to: Scientists find TSA scanners may tear apart DNA
This article is extremely misleading. The scientists are discussing electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz range (which is in the InfraRed bandwidth). The TSA scanners operate at much higher frequencies, in the Xray bandwidth. If you click on the link to the abstract, there is no mention of the scanners at all. I'm not sure who misinterpreted this and spread the rumor, but it is bunk science. This article gets a big thumbs down from me.

Comment Re:Accept reality (Score 1) 1348

by freeztar (#33943720) Attached to: Desktop Linux Is Dead

Maybe we should start asking what those 1-2% represent.

What kind of people use a Linux desktop full time? Geeks. Developers. Bright minds.

Consider Linux a piece of specialized software. How many computer users run specialized software? A small percentage of the total. Yet those are important for their respective niches.

Apple has 5% but it's the cream of the crop in regard to certain traits: people who favor aestethics and "just works" over everything else and are willing to pay extra for it.

Maybe it's time for Linux to stop aiming for more than 5%, ever, and instead embrace what it is: a professional-grade OS, for professionals.

Why obsess with taking over the desktop of average Joe, against Joe's wishes?

"Consider Linux a piece of specialized software." Linux is an OS. It's not specialized towards "geek. developers. bright minds.". That's just its traditional user base. For the "average user", firefox and openoffice is fine. Printing is needed, which is well supported in Linux these days. Music...check. Video...well, a bit more complex than plug and play, but doable for the average user, especially if scripts are used. Ubuntu is totally ready for the masses, but until the stigma of "geek only" is removed, it will never be accepted as such.

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