Apple is now nearly as big as Microsoft with personal computing devices

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ebw said:

nightsurge said:
I wonder if this graph includes all Windows Phone, Windows 8 tablet, etc devices? If the next Xbox does indeed run off of a Win 8 kernel maybe that means MS will be able to count those in the chart as well and have another leg-up on Apple!

Windows Phone and tablet sales are merely rounding errors, so it has about as much effect on the graph as including Apple TV in the iOS sales (it does run iOS, but doesn't have a touchscreen or run any of the same apps).  The Xbox is selling reasonably well, but again it is not even close to the same league as the iPhone business.  You either don't realize how small the markets you mention are, or your mental image of Apple is stuck 5 years in the past.  Apple sold more iOS devices in the last 3 months than Xbox 360 has shipped its entire lifetime.

Dont compare Phones sales with Consoles...

Everybody needs a phone, console are for gamers, a much much smaller group of people, per example everybody with a 360 probably owns a Phone or Smartphone for that matter. And people replace Phones every year or other year, most people i know have the 360 since 2007 and 2008. Some RRoD but Microsoft fixed it for free.