On 2006-11-02, yttrx <yttrx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Apple's Mac OS Market Share Spikes to 5.21 Percent - Up 35 Percent Year Over
>> Year - Growth Accelerates
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Key Percent Increases
>> |
>> | * Up 52.8 percent since January 2005
>> | * Up 48.0 percent since April 2005 (Mac OS X Tiger launched April
>> | 29, 2005)
>> | * Up 23.8 percent January to October 2006 - despite Intel transition
>> | * Up 10.4 percent since September 2006
>> | * Up 20.3 percent since August 2006
>> `----
>>
>> http://switchtoamac.com/site/apples-mac-os-market-share-spikes-to-521-percent-up-35-percent-year-over-year-growth-accelerates.html
>>
>> Market share statistics cannot be applied to Linux (not whilst OEM scare
>> tactics prevail and HTTP headers remain inconsistent/forged). Windows PC's
>> and Apple machines are being converted to Linux however.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installed_base
>>
>> Is is natural to assume, based on various statistics, that Linux is more
>> commonplace than Mac OS.
>
> Maybe more commonplace than macos, but not more commonplace than OSX.
>
> Any coffeeshop you walk into in manhattan, you'll see more than 80% of
> the people with laptops using OSX, and in certain neighborhoods even more
> than that.
A limited sample that is the very definition of statistical skew.
These people pay $2000 a month just for a closet. So of course
something percieved as excecessively overpriced or trendy is going to
quickly gain traction. The state of things in Manhattan is perhaps
relevant to the state of things in London or SFO but that's about it.
>
> The reason that its difficult to count linux isn't because theres any
> kind of OEM scare tactic or forged HTTP headers, its because its very
> difficult to count a product that you give away for free via internet
> download, particularly when things like torrents are involved.
--
Sure, I could use iTunes even under Linux. However, I have |||
better things to do with my time than deal with how iTunes doesn't / | \
want to play nicely with everyone else's data (namely mine). I'd
rather create a DVD using those Linux apps we're told don't exist.
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