Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

Agreed Paul

Amit, sn increasing or high revenue stream can indicate that the prices 
of the saleable goods have increased (and in my country a fact, up 30% 
on software and hardware in the last three months), currency 
fluctuations and exchange rates between source manufacturing country and 
recipient etc. and as Paul pointed out shares are just a number of 
people or companies buying them against a stock market.

Market share is the amount of widgets/units you move and place and are 
used in that market, besides it's saleable value. Plus I would not trust 
much in the way of reported finances from Yahoo. Forbes would be more 
trustworthy and then any of the internationally recognised stock 
markets. Paul again covered it well, you cannot trust the majority of 
garbage on the internet these days.

Just know that they are taking a knock, what with Windows 8 only 
migrating into less than 2% of the world market of their existing XP and 
Windows 7 base, another failure along the same lines as Vista. And the 
mobile version of the Windows 8 O/S on their devices such as Surface and 
their mobile phone, plus others such as Nokia etc. a mere 0,02% of the 
mobile market share.

Regards

Andrew Brown

On 29/07/2013 08:48 PM, Paul wrote:
> Hi Amit,
>
> Revenues and profits (and shares for that matter), are not the same as
> market share. Just because revenue is increasing, doesn't mean they
> aren't losing market share. If they are losing market share, it
> just means their revenue isn't increasing as much as it could be.
>
> So I'm not sure that
> > I checked MS revenues and profits on finance.yahoo.com
> tells us anything useful in this regard.
>
> > But the numbers don't lie.
> Not always true. As they say: "Lies, damn lies, and statistics".
>
> Regards
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:14:53 +0530
> Amit Choudhary <contact.amit.choudhary.india@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Andrew Brown <andrewbr@icon.co.za>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >   Hi Amit
> > >
> > > I understand where you are coming from, and the good news is, in
> > > your favour, that MS in both it's O/S and office suite are losing
> > > market share in a big way. Here's an article from Ubuntu founder
> > > and my countryman Mark Shuttelworth on his take on MS and Ubuntu. I
> > > like his statement that the no.1 bug in Linux has now been
> > > fixed/closed, in that MS no longer dominates majority market share.
> > But the numbers don't lie. I checked MS revenues and profits on
> > finance.yahoo.com and it doesn't look like MS is losing market share.
> > MS losing share might be an illusion.


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