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Re: Ridiculous Statistics

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 27 March 2009 16:28 : \____

>   
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/03/26/ridiculous-rescuecom-statistics-create-apple-reliability-headlines/
> 
>    It's almost painful to point out how absurd these numbers are. For
>    starters, Apple's "market share" is based on a loose definition of market
>    that has nothing to do with Apple. PC market share numbers as reported by
>    groups such as IDG and Gartner were invented in the 90s to flatter
>    Microsoft and marginalize competitors, providing a quotable metric to
>    prove that nobody could possibly compete against the monopoly, so why
>    even try.

It's the same with TCO.  The genesis of the term comes from a Microsoft-Gartner
deal.

Regarding IDC, they intentionally count just /revenue/ on /sales/ from /big
vendors/. They keep it consistent so as to be comparable.

Both Gartner and IDC were caught engaging in corruption with Microsoft.
Fortunately, Comes documents all of this.

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