Google| Subject | Re: mac sales down |
| From | Alan Baker |
| Date | 05/20/2008 07:48 (05/20/2008 07:48) |
| Message-ID | <alangbaker-957078.22480219052008@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | Edwin |
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In article <b43839ca-daa7-4baf-a5ba-9cd1157d29d1@26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>, Edwin <thorne25@juno.com>wrote:
EdwinAnd that chart supports my claim.
On May 8, 11:14?am, Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net>wrote:Alan BakerEdwin
In article <mlFUj.541$C8....@bignews2.bellsouth.net>,
?"weedhopper" <wendelhop...@comcast.net>wrote:weedhopper
I don't know if I really want to buy a new Mac now. With all the lies and bashing the Mac Zealots seem to constantly do - is it worth it?Market share facts from the new Mac Zealot Bible;http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10&qpmr=24&qpdt=1&q... al=1&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=110March ?7.48% April ? ? 7.38%Alan Baker
Yup. Statistics fluctuate, that's why there are such things as margins of error, confidence intervals, etc.
But the overall trend is unmistakable:
Apple's share of overall web usage is going slowly but steadily up.
http://www.systemshootouts.org/images/mac_sales_market_share_lg.gif
-- "The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- "I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone "It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) '[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
05/08/2008
