{"id":20,"date":"2008-05-20T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T05:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlam.wordpress.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2019-09-18T23:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:19:03","slug":"apple-takes-66-of-1000-marketshare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/apple-takes-66-of-1000-marketshare\/","title":{"rendered":"apple takes 66% of $1000+ marketshare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7c\/MacBook_Pro_17.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7c\/MacBook_Pro_17.jpg\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I was a die hard PC user all my life. Until last year. I don&#8217;t know if it was because I moved to L.A. and became a shallow human being and just wanted a &#8220;pretty&#8221; computer or if I really did see an advantage. I had vocally swore off Mac&#8217;s claiming they were proprietary, over-priced and simply because I thought the Mac-cult users were idots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now I am part of that cult&#8230; and I can&#8217;t explain why. I have an iPhone. I have a MacBook. I love it. I am pathetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the stats overall say that Apple still only commands an 8% marketshare of the entire computer market, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/133546\/2008\/05\/marketshare.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent number published on MacWorld<\/a> (any bias here?) says they have 66% of the $1000 plus marketshare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macs: the latest status symbol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a die hard PC user all my life. Until last year. I don&#8217;t know if it was because I moved to L.A. and became a shallow human being and just wanted a &#8220;pretty&#8221; computer or if I really did see an advantage. I had vocally swore off Mac&#8217;s claiming they were proprietary, over-priced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34,76,146],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nerdom","tag-apple","tag-computer","tag-mac"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/E7294278-F19C-4691-BB40-FE7347D31F3D.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronlam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}