techradar.com — Apple's OSX cutting into Windows' dominanceApple is celebrating a new milestone after a research company reported that Macs have now taken an 8% market share in computing for the first time. Net Applications conducted a survey on 40,000 sites, and came to the conclusion that 8.2% of computers accessing the web were using Apple's OSX ...
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djgreedoOct 3, 2008
@scrufflesFor your analogy re: someone offering to trade a BMW for a Chevy to be accurate:1) the Chevy would have to be as good as the BMW in the first place (my Dell is easily as good as any Macbook)2) the BMW would have to only run on about 50% of the world's roads (as an alalogy for the lack of software comparatively on Mac)3) the BMW can not be used for personal recreation (an analogy for the fact that games support on the Mac is poor).4) The BMW is only available in white.I'd keep the Chevy.Well, actually, I'd trade, sell the BMW, buy another Chevy, then spend the left over money on games or maybe some 3rd party hardware to give the Chevy a boost.Well, actually, I'd spend the money on whores.
Closed AccountOct 3, 2008
There's your problem - don't buy prebuilts from f**king best buy - best buy doesn't make the computers. Buy directly from Dell or HP to get competitive results, or for extra bang for the buck, try discounters like TigerDirect or NewEgg.
kecherOct 3, 2008
You are putting it in a wrong perspective my friend. It still amounts to many millions computers sold and many billions of dollars in income. I bet you would be pretty pleased if your company had similar share of any global market. In any sufficiently developed and competitive industry (automobile comes to mind) companies would kill for 8% and to see that happen in a traditionally monopolistic market as this one is even more impressive.
carlososOct 3, 2008
That is most likely the US alone or at least mostly US websites. That percentage is way to high for websites outside of the US.
scrufflesOct 4, 2008
@djgreedo - I didn't make any analogy comparing BMWs to Macs. I was just poking at someone who thinks BMW's are somehow equivalent to Chevy because they are both cars. I'm glad you like your Dell. I use one for 8 hours a day. It's one of the better Windows computers I have used, and I'm sure if I had to limit my choices of home computers to Windows machines, Dell would be at the top of my list. Fortunately for me, that isn't the case. So I guess we are both happy with our choices and everything is right with the world.... that is, unless you were posting to make fun of Apple users out of some sort of repressed jealousy.. in which case, have fun.
gelatina1996Oct 4, 2008
Go Apple Go**do a ridiculous dance**
tennismacOct 4, 2008
This probably includes web access from iPhones/Ipod Touch (since technically it runs mac os X)....so this stat maybe very skewed.
Closed AccountOct 6, 2008
A small correction - MacOS X is based on *BSD not *nix system.