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On 7/16/2010 4:58 PM, nospam wrote:
> In article<f860o.17561$0A5.16729@newsfe22.iad>, John Slade
> <hhitman86@pacbell.net>  wrote:
>
>>> microsoft used its monopoly status to squash anything else, and that's
>>> why they got in a heap of trouble.
>>
>>       Most of the competition was squashed because the put out
>> shitty products.
>
> nope. it was due to microsoft's predatory tactics and they were found
> guilty of it in a court of law.
>
> here's another:
> <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRU00634320080227>
>
>>        In other words you can't show me were "more and more"
>> people are switching to OS X.
>
> look at apple's sales numbers. they keep going up and up and they are
> outpacing the market as a whole.

        But I still don't see the OS X market share growing. 
Just for the record, Macs are now part of the PC market share. 
We're talking OS usage here. It would seem that many of these 
people who are buying Macs are running Windows at leas part of 
the time. I always said that when Apple started making clones 
their sales would go up.


>
> i guess you didn't read where it depends how you count it, and you're
> ignoring that a lot of those pcs are not used on the desktop.
>
>>> for computers over $1000 (apple doesn't bother with the low end), apple
>>> has 91% market share:
>>>
>>> <http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apple-has-91-of-market-for-10
>>> 00-PCs-says-NPD/1248313624>
>>
>>          That 91% of computers over $1000 is a very small segment
>> of the market.
>
> actually it's a significant part of the market.

     No it's not. The vast majority of computers sold are not 
over $1000.

>
>> And those are retail sales in brick-and-mortar
>> stores. It's also based on revenue and not unit sales. So while
>> this looks good to those who don't know, it really isn't
>> significant as most computer sales are online.
>
> it's actually very significant. most computers sold are over $1000. the
> netbook market is the exception.

      Complete horse shit. Amazon represents a tiny portion of 
all computer sales. I suggest you look at HP, Dell, Acer, Lenovo 
and ASUS sales.

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22421910

       This clearly shows that Apple is not even in the top five 
in worldwide computer sales. And the growth on the list is ASUS 
at 83.6% growth. 91% of the computers costing over $1000 is a 
tiny portion. Apple would have to sell many, many more computers 
to catch any of the big boys. For them to capture significant OS 
X market share, they have to convince people that OS X is better 
to have around than Windows XP/Vista/7. Since relatively very 
few games and applications are produced for OS X(excluding UNIX 
software), it's no wonder OS X has seen minuscule gains.

      Now if this info doesn't sink in, you'll never understand.

John