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kingofwale on 03 December 2008

at 90% of market share, what's there to recover?

This is what you called "total domination", even if it is slipping a tiny bit.



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Millennium on 03 December 2008

Good. Microsoft has been holding back the industry for far too long, and it's good to see that more people are finally seeing it.



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DirtyP2002 on 03 December 2008

Windows 7 will do a great job.



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damndl0ser on 03 December 2008

Apple has been doing a great job with its advertising, Fatboy (M$) vs. Funny Skinny guy (Apple). So to me it would only be natural for Apple to gain some market share, they have spent millions on those damnd commercials.

I think M$ has seen their market share slipping a little and are now starting to do some adds of their own. I doubt Apple will ever really be more than a thorn in M$'s side thought.



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KohlyKohl on 03 December 2008

There are way too many threads on this subject. Again, this is internet share only during a month where many were on their home computers more than usual. Internet statistics are poor metrics on actual usage at best.



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scottie on 03 December 2008

Well, there's two. I did look to see if it had been posted but didn't notice the other one because it was in MS discussion rather than PC discussion.

Kohly, got a better way to measure it? Because you certainly can't assume that the OS you sell a consumer will be the one they use



Oyvoyvoyv on 03 December 2008

Seems odd to me.

This site counts shipments. http://www.systemshootouts.org/mac_sales.html

Apple ships around 3-4% of the PCs yearly. Does anyone else ship macs? I don't think so, but maybe. Still, that would probably be minor. Mac doesn't have a market share of over 5%, I'm fairly certain of that.



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Seraphic_Sixaxis on 03 December 2008

Opera and FireFox should be able to do some damage.

Apple is doing disturbingly well to, along with Custom AW Mods...



scottie on 04 December 2008
Oyvoyvoyv said:

Seems odd to me.

This site counts shipments. http://www.systemshootouts.org/mac_sales.html

Apple ships around 3-4% of the PCs yearly. Does anyone else ship macs? I don't think so, but maybe. Still, that would probably be minor. Mac doesn't have a market share of over 5%, I'm fairly certain of that.

 

Macs last longer, hence there're more of them on the market.

 

Or that site is wrong, because there are numerous sites that all agree on the approx 8% figure



Simulacrum on 04 December 2008

Maybe this will teach Microsoft a lesson for next Windos.
But 90% is still huge.



 

 

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