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To: Don Green who wrote (43235)	2/18/2005 1:18:23 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

>>Not everybody has to switch for Apple to double or even quadruple it's market share (ore even a heck of a lot more)." ??? So I am asking what are YOU using as a baseline for this possible market share projection? How do you define it? What do you think it is presently?<< Don - Whatever their share is, it's quite obvious that not everybody has to switch for Apple to double or quadruple their share. If everybody switched, they'd have a 100% share. How about if we agree that Apple's market share was around 2% in Q3 of last year, which is the last period for which numbers seem to be available. If they had 2% in Q3, and a little over 2% of PC users switch, or just buy a new Mac Mini while not buying a new PC, then Apple will have doubled their market share. See how that works? It would require a bit over 6% of PC users to buy Macs instead of PCs for Apple's share to quadruple. And that's not everybody, is it? So how can you possibly disagree with Dan's statement? - Allen