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    Apple and the 50% Factor

    October 29th, 2008

    There’s a key figure that’s touted at every recent quarterly meeting with financial analysts, and it may give a clue why Apple’s sales are soaring. You see, some 50% of the people buying Macs at an Apple Store are new to the platform. Some, no doubt, are buying their first personal computer. Others are evidently […]


    Newsletter #419 Preview: CompUSA Self-Destructs

    December 9th, 2007

    I used to joke how few people knew anything over at CompUSA, except, perhaps, how to overcharge. This isn’t to say that the Apple “store-within-a-store” was necessarily bad, though. As it was, some of the CompUSA outlets actually had Mac fans on their staff who made a game effort to understand the products they were […]