re: Market Share
Like a lot of folks, I get confused over the assorted discussions about desktop computer market share. For example, industry figures from the February timeframe showed the Mac OS with about 11% of the business desktops, around 59% of the education desktops and about 6% of the home desktops. Within the business market there were obvious pockets of strength like publishing, graphics, web page authoring etc..
Since then, we've heard about slight gains on the business front, gains in the laptop market, and stagnant sales to the home market. Of the new Macs sold, around 20% seem to have been clones.
Even more recently, there have been numbers bandied about that Apple only made 3% of the PC sales. Some news stories have morphed that number into a market share number. (Ah, the press). No one seems inclined to publish hard data on how many PC or Mac sales were to new users and how many were upgrades. So the press just looks at the gross sales figures and reports that as a market share. Ok, not always. But often enough that I'm sure everyone who reads this board has seen the stories.
Apple figures its still got about 10% of the market overall. Rumors of mass defections of Mac loyalists to the WINTEL camp are mostly just that, rumors.
Anyway, where does all this leave us? Confused mostly. Anyone out there got some solid market share numbers?
Bob
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