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- agrabob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"By my calculations, based on Steve Jobs’ claim that half of all Macs are sold to first-time buyers, roughly 9,000 people switch to the Mac every day."
Wow, those are some pretty scientific calculations you got there.
FYI - 9000 x 365 = 3,285,000
No way 3 million PC users move to Mac every year. - SirBotchness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Superior only based on biased opinions. I am more convinced every day that when you buy a mac you're given a manual how to be a smug prick. If anything that is the only reason i hate the damn things. Everybody who has one gets this ***** attitude like their computer means the world to people, when in actuality most people could give a ***** less who makes their computer looks as long as they can use the internet.
- joerad010, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Inaccurate.
This statistic is almost as funny as the one that shows how the number of child homicides DOUBLED EVERY YEAR since the 1950s. Do the math, damned funny :-)
(Hint, if you start with one at 1950, it reaches somewhere into the TRILLIONS now...for further reference read, "Damned Lies and Statistics".)
OK, dig me down now for not blindly supporting a MAC digg. - GaffleSnipe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm a Mac fanboy ( Yes, I'm admitting it ) and I don't believe this statistic can possibly be accurate.
9,000 X 365 X $1200 (cheap iMac) = $3,942,000,000! Ha, you have got to be kidding me. No, not all switchers will be buying a new mac, but this is only ONE Apple product that I added up quickly. This Stat is jacked yo. No Digg. - mattwood24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ok, how many people go from macs to PCs then?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hahah what a ***** number.
- das7282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4By the way, coincidently, I just replaced my Mac today with Ubuntu. ;-)
- Kenzan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Why no, This isn't spam at all..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If Apple was 'VERY HUGE' then the market would be evenly mixed with Mac and Windows users. Not the case however... and they certainly wouldn't have a need for those ***** commercials that makes you appear to be a smug prick, as the previous poster noted.
Apple would have been dead by now if they hadn't come up with the iPod, which really only made an mp3 player a fashion piece. - KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I wonder how many people then also buy windows for parallels of boot camp. Also how many people are buying their first computer with windows on it? Yeah, go on apple fans digg me down.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Every day, 9000 anti-mac comments are dugg down. This is one diggers tale."
- das7282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"I am more convinced every day that when you buy a mac you're given a manual how to be a smug prick."
Exactly!!!! - das7282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Buried off the front page! Hahahaha!
- KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+372,057,594,040,000,001 child homicides apparently, if we started with 1.
That's actually beyond trillions. 72 thousand trillion 594 billion, 40 million and one...
BTW equation: (2^(2007-1951)) + 1
Sorry :P Meant to be doing my maths assignment - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2D-d-d-d-danger, Batman!
He makes a bunch of crappy assumptions:
1) Apple's figure that 50% of new sales are to new customers is accurate
2) The remaining 50% are PC users
3) All of these PC users are "switching" to Mac.
I dunno, man. I'm all for Mac getting a stronger following but you're kind of reaching here. What about PC users that buy a Macbook as a laptop to try something else? They are "switching" about as much as someone who drinks beer buying a bottle of vodka with the latest six pack. - KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ woojoo
You said its not spam. Triple negative: No, isn't and not. - das7282, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4And everyday 8900 people switch back to PC's after getting their Macs and saying, "WTF?"
- woojoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So, we started with the fact that Mac users are increasing everyday, from that we have decided it to be obvious since the Mac is so great, then we thought that that fact is obvious since everyone should know that the Mac is so great, (or is it...?)
- woojoo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3No, your comment really ISN'T spam... NOT!!!
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I don't know what I just said. - pyrotix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1it was like... bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep
It, devoured my paper
It was a really good paper - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3nope... I dont work for info world.
- pcharles23, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1more then that if you consider world wide... Apple is HUGE... Very Popular... Gaining Successes, Best of all their products are superior!
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