Dan, Good point and question.
Anne Cartwright On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:08 PM, Dan Crutcher <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve always wondered what percentage of market share Macs have among people > who actually choose the computers that they use. I read today in the New York > Times that Microsoft’s Windows OS has a 91% market share among all computers > in use. That does not really surprise me, as there are far more computers > used in business and corporate environments then as truly “personal” > computers, and few large companies use Macs as their base computing platform. > > But whenever I see photos in the press of real people using computers, it’s > overwhelmingly Macs. In my own businesses we have between 10 and 20 interns > each year working for us at various times. The ratio of Macs to PCs is > probably 5 to 1 in favor of Macs. > > Almost every employee I have hired that had previously used only > Windows-based computers has converted to a Mac as their personal computer > after using the Macs that we use in our offices. > > Does anybody know of any statistics on Mac vs. PC usage among people who > truly get to choose which kind of computer they use (as opposed to what > they’ve been given to use at work)? I’ve got to think that the Mac market > share is much higher than the usual 5-10% share that is reported in the press. _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
