{"id":92,"date":"2010-10-20T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T22:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2010-10-20T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T22:37:55","slug":"mac-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Mac Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK; I&#8217;m working on a longer Blog entry, but I just noticed something I want to get out right away.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Apple held a special event, where they discussed the Mac. They talked about the next version of OS X (Lion), the new Mac Book Airs, and a few other things. They also noted that the Mac business was worth $22B in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>But waitaminit&#8230; by my numbers (which are from Apple&#8217;s own quarterly Data Sums), CPU revenue (Laptops and Desktops) for 2010 was just under $17.5B&#8230; not $22B. What gives? But then I noted that, for 2010, iPad revenue was almost $5B&#8230; aha! As <a href=\"http:\/\/ihnatko.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ihnatko<\/a> might say; &#8220;J&#8217;Accuse, Apple!&#8221; I saw what you did there. We all know that including iPad as a (some would say successful) competitor to those silly Winduhs &#8220;netbooks,&#8221; gives Apple a huge leg up in the &#8220;Market Share Wars.&#8221; Well played, Mr. Jobs&#8230; well played sir!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK; I&#8217;m working on a longer Blog entry, but I just noticed something I want to get out right away. Today, Apple held a special event, where they discussed the Mac. They talked about the next version of OS X (Lion), the new Mac Book Airs, and a few other things. They also noted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parentheticalthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}