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Evans: The Mac is irrelevant amid the global mobile transformation
“In the great wide world of the enormous transformation of the technology industry, and the media industry, and the whole, of industry in general, by mobile, the Mac is kind of irrelevant.”
Sinofsky: iPad and Mac hardware are fundamentally identical
“The iPad is a Mac. The Mac is an iPad in terms of the hardware.”
Sinofsky: Macs account for nearly half of the US laptop market
“Macs are, you know, half the laptop market in the U.S. At this point.”
Evans: Mobile OS platforms integrate services much deeper than PC OSs
“Unlike, say, a web browser on a, either a Windows or a Mac, where the web browser was the platform and the Windows or the Mac computer wasn't really where you were building internet services. Whereas on a smartphone, not only are you building in the web browse…”
Evans: Active iPad installed base exceeds active Mac base by 2x
“There's probably a 180 to two hundred million iPads in use now, Versus about eighty million Macs, according to Apple.”
Andreessen: Pre-1993 PCs and Macs lacked built-in TCP/IP support
“Computers, PCs and Macs up until 93, 94 didn't even come with TCP IP built into the computer, built into the operating system.”