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dell,dell's

Dell is the real winner out of this. As they operate by mail-order they don’t need to have the stock immediately available, they have a few days to deliver it which gets them time to arrange the supply. Dell and Hewlett-Packard feel that sales will be flat at best. Dell has been the leader in price cuts, aiming to prompt consumers to buy faster computers or add more machines. Another tactic has been to reduce the price of other electronic products, such as digital cameras, color printers, and scanners, when bought with a new home computer.0The increase in computer sales has occurred in spite of the significant growth in sales of home entertainment systems and devices such as DVD players, surround-sound audio systems, and wide-screen televisions, encouraged by large price cuts and a trend toward staying at home instead of going out for entertainment.0However, computer demand is unlikely to rebound on a sustained basis until businesses restore their technology budgets and applications require faster machines.

microsoft,microsoft's

Microsoft isn’t doing that and that’s why I think their stock will decline. Microsoft talks about OEM licensing the xBox, but that's a joke since the company loses money on every device. Would an HP or Dell want to enter a market in which it knew that break-even was two to three years away, and even then Microsoft could take away even that distant profit opportunity by introducing an xBox 720? Microsoft's new operating system attacks software piracy from an interesting angle: Instead of making CDs more difficult to copy or instituting more complex product keys, Microsoft has laid down a law named Product Activation. Each installation of Windows XP will take a digital fingerprint of your hardware configuration and send it to Microsoft's authentication servers, which will respond with a unique activation key which will allow the OS to run past its original 30-day time limit.

Microsoft’s biggest foray into that arena is the Xbox 360. Sure, it is pitched as a game system but the thing is really a proprietary computer with heat issues.

apps

Apple's domination of MP3 players and its rising computer sales are testimony to user experience overriding cheap Windows computers. Apple will keep hitting the right notes cause they have style and good clever management. Figures and good positive sentiments, they have it all! Apple’s own online productivity suite , launched with its new MobileMe service, is a case in point. They’ve managed to create an impressive user experience, but you have to be a virtual rocket scientist to achieve this with Ajax techniques and tools.

Application forms are available from the Dean?s office, 122 Haviland (642-4408). Haviland Hall's computer facility in Room 309 is equipped with terminals and IBM PCs, many of which are connected to the campus mainframe computer. Apple has reportedly tweaked the metrics is uses to guage employee and store performance to put more emphasis on ProCare service and less on .Mac sales. Previously Apple’s bonus and performance program set attach rates of 60% for the AppleCare extended warranty, 40% for .Mac accounts and 20% for ProCare. Apple will be updating Final Cut Studio to version 2.0 and details are sparse here. Apple⿿s pro group is extremely tight lipped and almost nothing is discussed until a few days before Apple⿿s traditional NAB press conference.

Apple computers dominate his fraternity house, even a couple of engineering majors have Power Macs. He has commented to me that several of the classes he is taking used Windows compatible software only last year, but they are mac compatible this year. Apple's stock has been wearing them for most of the year. Nothing is moving Apple's stock, not good market days, not analyst upgrades, not fed rate cuts. Apple may fall flat on its face offering a free copy of iTunes to Windows users. Maybe only 10-20 million will download it.

Apple gets most of its sales and profit from its Mac business. In its third quarter, which ended June 28, Mac products and services accounted for 61% of Apple's total revenue. Apple TV is just the right sized and priced device to fundamentally change how we get content for our TVs. The challenge will be getting broadband fast enough so that we can have unlimited HD sources anytime rather than a handful on cable/satellite when the networks schedule.