A lot of what is said about Mac OS X can also be said about GNU/Linux, but
the adoption rate is different owing to *cost* and Freedom...
Apple's Growing Bite of the Market
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| Put Windows on a Mac, toss in many with Intel chips, mix with the
| public's passion for the iPod?and you've got big market-share gains
| for Apple
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| Windows PC users cite plenty of reasons for not wanting to own a Mac.
| One of the biggest has historically been the inability to run Windows
| applications--many of them needed for business--on an Apple computer.
| But that and other reasons are becoming less valid, and evidence is
| mounting that a potentially tectonic shift in Apple's place in the PC
| market could be coming in the next few years.
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| [...]
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| By 2008, assuming IDC forecasts for worldwide PC sales of 279 million
| units are correct, the Mac could account for 3.7% of the worldwide market.
| The company's share starts to approach 5% by 2010. That's more progress
| than Mac users have seen in many years.
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http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060615_080175.htm
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