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.



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