I guess I can't see the meaningfulness of this stat. I regularly use 3 computers; a OSX 10.6 MBP and 1 each XP Pro and Vista machine. I use my MBP mostly for web activities like reading and posting in forums as well as surfing while in the living room or on trips. The Windows boxes have 2 browsers and 3 browsers, respectively. I run 3 browsers on the MBP while I rarely use any browser on the XP box which is used for solely for catching podcasts and streamed shows. I have yet to find a site that won't load in Safari but I rarely use Safari on the MBP since navigating through 1,000 posts in forums is a pain when some threads are pages deep. Firebox has a simple icon for quickly navigating through 9 or 10 pages of history. In Safari, I need a mouse to access that page history selectively. So for me, how would their statistical technique say I am represented on the web? And, if one could categorize me, what difference does it make anyway? Comparisons are odious.
"We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out." - Roger Ebert > Subject: Re: Mac Market Share At 11% > > On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:42 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: >> However, since most of these comparisons of >> alleged market share are exactly that, market share, then sales are >> all that matter. > > That is disingenuous. We are talking about computers in use. Your > method would be like stating the US population by just counting births > instead of looking at how many people are really here. > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
