[Ti] Apple's True Market Share!

[Mike Stanley]

On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 08:32 AM, Sam Hotchkiss wrote:

> On 12/10/02 3:54 AM, "Alex" <alex at fotomotion.net> wrote:
>
>> I am slightly put out by the talk about Apple's 'miniscule market
>> share'. So lets clear this up here and now. There are only two major
>> Desktop platforms out there at the moment Wintel and Macintosh, and
>> indeed the proportion of Mac's to Wintel PCs puts Mac's at less than 
>> 5%
>> of the total market. However you should not judge one company in a
>> market against the rest of the market as a whole you should judge it
>> against other companies in the same market to get any perspective 
>> about
>> it performance.
>
> I'm pretty sure *nix boxes are more common than macs

On the desktop?  I doubt it.  Maybe if you could find a way to count 
every Linux desktop that people dual-boot into for kicks or every 
crappy old machine someone installed it on and doesn't use much.  But 
currently used desktops, especially those that were bought AS *nix 
desktops?  Can't see it.