Chipp Walters wrote:
On 6/28/06, Stephen Barncard <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com> wrote:
What about the other 20%*?
Funny, the most I could find the Mac had was:
"Currently Apple has a US market share of 4.5 percent and a global
market share of 2.5 percent."
--http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/07/apple_market_share/
Mac isn't the only non-Windows system out there. There are a few
flavors of UNIX, more than a dozen popular Linux distros, and at least
one Newton user in Brazil.
This article from about 8 months earlier than the one you cited goes out
on a limb to suggest that Windows marketshare will not merely continue
to decline, but rather dramatically to about 58% by 2007, once PDAs,
cell phones, and other OS environments are taken into account:
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/04/23/HNconsolidation_1.html>
Of course those systems aren't running OS X either. :)
This article discusses some of the difficulties in establishing good
methodologies for measuring marketshare of Linux vs Windows:
<http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32648.htm?CFID=330523&CFTOKEN=B457A4C5-794B-EBDC-09B212C3C154BA67>
And of course there are other factors, like the figures for specific
markets like education where Macs are reported to have a
disproportionate showing (some say 14, not anywhere near its peak of 30%
in 1999 but not bad):
<http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/Jple8zB2GaIfC8/Apple-Looks-to-Get-Back-Domination-of-College-Market.xhtml>
I don't believe unit sales tell the whole story of human usage, esp.
when you take into account that most non-human-driven computers aren't
Macs (factory automation and the like; I know one shop where most people
use Macs and a single floor manager runs 10 Wintel boxes drive
machinery; in a head count it's 10-to-1 Mac, but in a box count it
appears even), and one would need to account for system longevity and a
great many other things to figure out how many actual people are using
each system.
But while unit sales may be a weak measurement, it's the simplest to
derive so it's the one most commonly used.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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