I was in Atlanta this weekend and made a stop at Lenox. They have a Microsoft store and a Apple Store. The Apple Store was packed and buzzing. The Microsoft Store had 4 people. How did that happen?
Microsoft is getting smoked by Apple!
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Cause everyone loves the iPhone. Apple makes almost 70% of their revenue and profits off of that one product, and their iPad sales have been declining for almost two years now. Microsoft on the other hand is still mostly an enterprise company that dominates the enterprise markets. Consumer is just a very small part of their success as a company. Apple on the other hand is almost all consumer, with the exception of the BYOD market. In fact, Apple's backend is run by Microsoft and Amazon.
So they're two entirely different companies. Hard to judge them. Microsoft stores are hit and miss, with some being successful and others not. Although it's hard to judge based on two stores on a single day at a single point in time. Apple has the more successful store chain. That much is certain.
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There better quite introducing a beta grade OS every other version. It's going to catch up with them sooner or later.
I don't think the Microsoft store success is decided based on Windows, and Apple has had plenty of their own issues when it comes to OSX. In fact, Windows is not even their most important or profitable product anymore. Azure and Office are far more important today than Windows.
It's still telling. Apple almost bit the dust. I'm sure there is stuff going on in the background that I don't know about. It moves so fast you can't keep up with it.
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Are you saying Steve had ariia 51 and verner Von braughn type clearance. Are you implying apple and the government are working together to tank Microsoft.
My point is, Microsoft is a hugely successful enterprise and software company who has only mild to moderate success in consumer markets. Apple is a hugely successful consumer and hardware company who is almost non-existent in enterprise markets, other than BYOD which is not a terribly lucrative compared to the backend stuff. So they're different companies. Microsoft is probably positioned better for long term success simply because they are far more diversified with over 16 multi-billion dollar a year businesses. Apple has three, and one of those comprises 70% of their revenue and profits. Their Apple Watch hasn't been the hit they've expected, and neither has the iPad Pro. Then again, smartwatches are stupid. I'll never understand them. It's just another product you have to carry around and charge, and it doesn't do anything your phone doesn't already do far better.
I've actually been to at least three different Microsoft stores that have been fairly busy. Likewise I've seen two different Apple stores with only a few consumers. It's anecdotal evidence. If your point is the Apple store is more successful than Microsoft stores, I think that is obvious at this point.
My point is not either. My point is that Microsoft better watch themselves. I think they take their position for granted by putting out crap beta software every other year thus making the consumer test there product for them. It's a terrible strategy. They are too big for their britches. All I'm saying is they better not take it for granted. Things change very fast, who would have thought Apples profit would ever surpass Microsoft. I'm really not even talking about Apple. It could be anybody. We need more competition in that arena. They are in essence a software monopoly.
