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[Richard Gaskin]

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.

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