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And, just as consumers want woozy Windows users and seducing computer novices with its retro-cool bigger screens, they look for functionality design, see-through plastics and nifty DV features. ahead of technology. There aren’t that many wireless technology The iMac is the key to Apple’s recovery from the dire state the company DVD titles out there, aside from DVD-Video 86 found itself in after years of complacency and missed business opportunities. movies – and who’d watch Gladiator on an iMac Just look at the numbers… According to the latest stats from analysts PC Data, when you’ve got a 29-inch widescreen telly in front of your sofa? lets you throw off the yoke Apple is the number-four PC vendor with 9.6 per cent of the market – behind Apple ignores PC Data’s stats because it ignores its direct sales from eMachines (13%), Hewlett-Packard (32%) and Compaq (34%). Despite PC Data the Apple Store and doesn’t reflect sales of all the iMac’s colours as one. of cabling, giving not including direct sales – and so precluding Dell from its figures – these are It claims that its unit sales in the second quarter of this year were over stats that Apple would have killed for two years ago. a million – a 26 per cent jump from the same period last year. What’s galling for Apple is that it recently successfully sued third-placed But, with iMac sales slowing down, Apple ignores PC Data’s figures at freedom of movement eMachines for blatantly copying the iMac’s design. eMachines even has the its peril. To drive the iMac’s momentum back to its previous record-breaking cheek to rip off Apple’s Think Different brand – its slogan is (ironically) levels, Apple must act very soon. Here’s my suggestions; let me know what “Changing the way you think about computing”. you think by emailing me at [email protected]. – whether you’re surfing So why the gloom about iMac sales? Read further into PC Data’s figures, 15 inches is very 1999. Apple must offer an appropriately priced 19-inch and you’ll discover that Apple’s sales’ volumes are actually down on this iMac as soon as possible. I believe there’s still room for smaller iMacs, but time last year. Apple’s year-on-year growth is below the industry par, despite we’re talking 17 (not 15) inches here. Messing with an undoubted design the Net on your home iMac or encouraging shipments of Power Macs, PowerBooks and iBooks. Apple’s share classic ain’t going to be easy, but if anyone’s going to do it right, it’s Apple. at Christmas was 11.6 per cent. Put two and two together, and you get a CD-RW is better than DVD. This may be a hard fact to swallow, but, right marked slump in iMac sales. Scary. now, DVD is for tellies not computers. office Power Mac G4, or on the PC Data blames Apple for allowing the iMac range to stagnate – it hasn’t Extremely fast is not fast enough. While the iMac’s 400MHz PowerPC G3 been refreshed since October 1999, when the iMac went DV with FireWire, might blow away 700MHz Pentium IIIs, your average consumer isn’t going to road with an iBook or PowerBook. DVD and a revamped case design. If the iMac DV seems pretty new to you, understand a word of explanation. Apple must push IBM and Motorola to play then consider this – a PC vendor would have updated the iMac again in January. the megahertz numbers game. By its very nature, the iMac competes with Windows PCs. So, Apple is losing Five colours do not a rainbow make. Updating the iMac is easier than out by letting its competitors race ahead. Sure, they’re racing ahead with the revving dull-looking PCs. Apple should release some new colour schemes for inferior Windows operating system and all their PCs are uniformly boring beige, the iMac. Why has there never been a Banana or Lemon iMac? It really pains but ahead is still not behind. me to suggest it, but a less brand-conscious Apple could shift tens of thousands contents More than half of all personal computers sold in April were sold with of Manchester United-flavoured consumer computers. iMac Utd, anyone? 17-inch monitors. What’s worse, a further 10 per cent came with 19-inch The iMac is not a niche product. It’s for the horrible masses. A Chelsea Cinema screens. So, even if Apple increases the iMac’s 15-inch screen to 17 inches, Display would be nice, though… it’ll still be running behind the pack. If you look at Compaq and Dell, there’s clear evidence that thinking different PC makers are also offering read-writeable CD (CD-RW) drives in their isn’t always the best policy. To maintain the iMac’s lead as the top consumer consumer PCs – a massive 40 per cent of PCs sold in April could copy CDs as PC brand, Apple should go back to basics and ask the public what they really COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: MIKE LAYE/ILLUSTRATOR JAMES WALKER MIKE LAYE/ILLUSTRATOR COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: MW July 2000 well as just read them. Here, Apple is too far ahead. DVD is technologically want from a computer. Think features, think screen size, think similar. 79 92 107 111 104 subscription offer 62 58 A Canon PowerShot S10 worth £600 regulars I 79 107 8 How to contact Macworld Macworld has it covered Flat out create print Who’s who, and who’s won what. 54 Macromedia Dreamweaver 64 Cinema 4D XL6 The market’s leading XTend yourself Use XTensions to add UltraDev 66 Belkin USB Videobus; models tested, rated 104 Macworld subscriptions functionality to QuarkXPress. and compared. Unbelievable value! 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