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Monday, April 04, 2005

Microsoft: No fears of Mac 'halo effect'

ZDNN:

Microsoft has dismissed Apple's claims of the iPod "halo effect" denting the PC market.

Despite reports to the contrary, Crossley said Redmond has seen no halo effect from iPod users shunning PCs in favor of Macs.

"We haven't seen it yet," she said.

"We're not happy about losing any market share," Cynthia Crossley, head of Windows client at Microsoft UK said. "We worry less about 'losing share' and more about what else we can get into... we want to do it all."

There's only one way to determine whether Apple's Mac market share has increased, and it has nothing to do with "reports" or analyst opinions. We'll know soon whether the Mac mini has had a positive effect on Mac sales. My guess is it will. The big questions are whether that positive effect will be only temporary (my guess: Yes) and whether it will impact the Mac market share over more than a quarter or two (my guess: No). Are my guesses any "better" than the opinions of analysts? No. But they're not any worse either.

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