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To: Dave Jacob who wrote (6777)	12/11/1997 8:31:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Mac OS Share rises to 33% share in '97. via MacOS Rumors via USA Today. >The Mac OS makes market share inroads in 1997 Often, when journalists talk about "market share," the mistake "sales share" with "installed user base share," making their varying reports of Apple's situation confusing and misleading. While "sales share" of new Mac systems is currently just under 9% of the market, Apple still retains well over 20% of the Installed User Base (IUB) of all personal computers. For once, however, statistics presented about Apple's market share, specifically in how large a percentage of OS sales the Mac OS accounted for this year, USA Today appears to have presented them in an accurate and fair manner (although still with a couple of possible innacuracies, including a lack of statistics for WindowsNT), as one reader notes: In case you haven't seen it yet, [yesterday's] USAToday Money section "Snapshot" (the graph that appears in the bottom left of every cover page) has the headline "Apple takes a bite": Third quarter sales of MacOS 8 increased Apple's U.S. market share for operating systems sharply from the same period last year. Third- quarter share of systems sold: OS '96 '97 Win 95: 77% 63% MacOS: 5% 33% DOS: 10% 2% Win 3.1: 7% 2% OS/2: 2% <1% While this doesn't tell the whole story (Mac OS8 is a new operating system, while Windows '95 has been out for a while), it's great to see some positive factual information in a national newspaper like this. It is indeed; it really drives the point home that it's ridiculous when people dismiss the Mac offhand because it isn't the "biggest"; since when is 33% of new product sales indicative of a product that's no longer viable? Doom-and-gloomers, eat your hearts out! =)< ----------------- This appeared in OS Rumors today and I thought it was worth re-posting. Also, IMO, I think the judge's order today banning MSFT from mandating Explorer is very important. OS control is critical to MSFT if they can leverage that dominance into app sales. If they can't it's a drain. This creates a situation where a cross/open platform (convergence) paradigm makes sense. Ie; Macs running '95/NT apps/ Pentiums running Mac apps. soup

To: Dave Jacob who wrote (6777)	12/11/1997 8:52:00 PM
From: Hippieslayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

My comment was meant as a joke. I'm playing upon the fact the Jobs helped to kick out Amelio and now Apple is having problems finding a new CEO. It could be very well possible that JObs may have to become the CEO if no one comes up to plate. Maybe Apple should do what the brilliant eco-socialist co founders of Ben and Jerry did when the needed to find a CEO for their company. Apple should ask for wanna be ceo's to write an essay as to why the want to run Apple. I use an Apple clone and I love to death the APlle operating system over the frustrating to use Win95. But, Apple has demonstrated that they just can't get it done management wise. Their ad campaign, if you want to call it that, is horrible and uninspiring, IMO. The bottom line is that in the end, it will be shown that is wasn't MSFT that killed Apple, it was Apple that killed them selves. If you want my opinion as to who should run Apple, I would tell you Al "Chainsaw" Dunlop(lap?) who is now at Sunbeam. Let him rip the company apart piece by piece and let the stockholders get their money back. And Maybe Steve Dell was right when asked what he would do with Apple.