Ok i live in New york city, advertisement capital of the world. and i never seen in my entire life a windows advertisement. a month ago i saw a windows advertisement for the first time on an MTA bus (city bus). now im starting to see it more often.

this is wat the advertisement on the buses look like.

im not trying to offend anyone, but i though this will be a bit intresting. considering apple sales are rising, and their stock value is much higher than MS. Is it possilbe that the rising popularity of Apple products such as mac and ipod are threating MS empire???

Lets hope so , Their PC Monopoly(undeserved) has gone too long untouched

Yea the MAC HAS BEEN selling much better in the past year or so, apple has really got a strong name in the MP3/PHONE industry, they just need to try to push that on the mac.

yea i guess the ipod has given apple a lot of brand power. then they use that sucess on the iPhone, and now my friends are recommending me to get a mac. so i guess your right leo-j, they just gotta work on the mac

I wouldn't say sales have just been increasing for the last year alone. Apple has been on the warpath since they released the original imac. The ipod and their change to intel processors have obviously continued the trend.

Yeah probably, but that can't be a good thing.

What will happen to PC gaming?

A Mac gamer. Yeah right.

loads up starcraft on his mac pro. HEY ITS STILL AN AWESOME GAME I DON'T CARE IF ITS 10 YEARS OLD!!!

I forgot about Blizzard games. But what about Crysis? or BioShock?

Their marketshare recently went under 90%. Internet Explorer, despite everyone with any sense adopting a more secure alternative, recently went under 70%.

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I don't think they have anything to worry about. If FREE STUFF that does the same job in most cases can't get even 1% of the market, no pay-for competitor will do it.

The Mac isn't taking a huge bite of the PC market share. As a matter of fact, there are sold roughly as many macs as there are sold Ps3s (yearly).

The Mac sticks to between 3-4% market share on units sold (shipped), but as macs tend to last longer, the common belief is that ~ 5% of the PCs that are being used, are macs.

The Mac is now doing better (both unit and share wise) than just 3-4 years ago, at which point it stuck to 2-3% market share. That's a major increase for Apple, but a minor loss for Windows.

As I mentioned earler, the mac sells ~ 10 million WW yearly.

So if the trend continues, mac won't be a major contestant to the PC. What some people (generally Mac enthusiasts (spelling?)) believe, is that the Mac will increase to a 20-25% market share in just 10-15 years.

The reason for this, is that the mac has a market share of over 20% among the youth in Americas (ages 16-32 I believe). They believe that at once you use a Mac, you won't go back to windows. Time will prove if this is true.

I really don't believe that, as people are far less loyal to brandname than one usually believes.

But now I'm going off topic.

No - Windows is not losing serious ground to Apple (in the PC buisiness).

Edit: Forgot the link. http://www.systemshootouts.org/mac_sales.html