On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:27 AM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > Short of hiring the Census, this is probably the most accurate way to get a > count. Since Mac hardware outlasts PC hardware by at least a factor of two, > hardware sales numbers count a lot of churn as people constantly replace > their cheap PC hardware.
No disagreement here. However, since most of these comparisons of alleged market share are exactly that, market share, then sales are all that matter. Planned obsolescence is a tactic that is used to increase sales over a period of time. Manufacturing items of a lesser grade is a similar tactic. Yes, there are probably more Macs in use than market share, or rather items sold, would indicate. Simply put, I tend to view market share versus items in use as two distinctly different things. I know folks in business, all guys by the way, who replace all their Windows machines every two years or so, sometimes even sooner. They view this as a routine procedure be there any real need for it or not. They will tell me that they fear consequences if they do not have the latest technology available, once again, whether they need it or not. I also know some female business owners who use Windows in their businesses and they do not take this approach at all. They tend to keep their machines until they are falling apart. I think this is simply a male vs. female thing, with guys feeling less than adequate if their various toys are not always new and shiny, being the latest and greatest. They tend to regard their cars in the same light. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
