Jan Claeys schreef:
Op donderdag 21-02-2008 om 20:44 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Mattias
Campe:
Jan Claeys schreef:
So, then why doesn't Apple have more than 3% marketshare on the PC
market while they probably spend 50x more per unit sold than Microsoft
on marketing...? ;)
"Linux" is actually growing faster than Mac OS X, and might surpass it
within 1-3 years in most countries.
Jan, what are your sources for the last sentence? I know the following
sources, but these ones don't seem to give arguments for your
statement (maybe because they are too global).
http://www.thecounter.com > Global Stats (currently Linux: 1% vs Mac
4%)
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9 (currently Linux:
0,67% vs Mac 7,57% and the trend seems to be in favor of Mac)
Could it be possible to clarify 'growing faster... in
desktop/mobile/server/all' and 'most countries'=?
BTW Some time ago somebody posted the results of some Belgian survey
somewhere where we could read that Linux is the most popular Linux
distribution in Belgium, but I can't seem to find that message any
more. Does somebody has any clue?
Mark posted it[1] first and I've posted it in several places too. So,
early 2007 in Belgium, 1.8% of the market used Mac OS X, and 1.5% of the
market used linux, freebsd, or another free OS.
Jan, I think you have misinterpreted it, on page 21 I read:
-) Mac OS = 2,4%, with Mac OS X 10 = 1,8 %
-) Linux = 1,5 %, with Ubuntu = 0,3 %
It frightens me that actually more people are using Windows 95 - an
unsupported operating system - than Ubuntu :-(
So if you use this survey as a source, I think we should consider
'growing faster... in desktop/laptop'. What are the other countries in
the 'most countries' you mentioned?
Sorry for all those nasty questions, but I'm interested in good
statistics about the use of Linux in countries :).
BTW if you're talking about marketing, I would suspect to read on the
website that Ubuntu is the most used Linux operating system in
Belgium... with a link to the survey. Maybe a tip :-). See eg.
http://www.ubuntu-be.org/index.php?page=ontvangst
Considering the respective marketing budgets, Mac OS X must be really
bad in practice to be so close to the "no-budget" operating systems in
market share... or otherwise price isn't really relevant! ;-)
Ubuntu did have 0.3% back then, which was the largest free OS.
And remember, this was based on phone calls to actual internet users,
not based on browser stats or similar metrics that are often faked
(because of issues with maldesigned websites).
Indeed, I hope they will redo this survey next year.
[1] <http://www.ibpt.be/GetDocument.aspx?forObjectID=2477&lang=nl>
Greetings
Mattias
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