Not content to raise the pressure on Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway in the computer market, Apple also tweaked software company Microsoft, rolling out new editions of its iLife and iWork desktop software packages.
Anyone who's bought one or two computers in the last few years doesn't have a compelling reason to replace them, which explains why companies like Dell Computer and Gateway are hurting.
Technology stocks in the US and Europe took another battering on Thursday, this time prompted by a profits warning from computer maker Gateway and further evidence of a weakening US economy.
And there were big falls in the shares of other computer makers like Gateway, IBM, and Hewlett Packard.
Gateway, the low-cost computer maker that competes with Dell, has already said it expected lower than expected sales in the fourth quarter of the year.
Gateway calls it the lightest portable computer equipped with DVD.
Market researcher IDC now places Apple third in the U.S. computer market, tied with Gateway.
Market researcher IDC now places Apple third in the U.S. computer market, tied with Gateway (nyse: GTW - news - people ).
When I saw the announcement of Gateway's new "FireAnt" notebook computer a couple of months ago, I had to try one out.
Acer acquired the California-based computer company in 2007 and continues to sell products under the Gateway name, particularly at big box stores like Best Buy.
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" Sold in shopping malls and discount stores and not just small computer stores -- the norm for the time -- the C64 became many people's gateway into the world of computers, said Brian Bagnall, author of "On the edge: The spectacular rise and fall of Commodore.
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