I appreciate the fact that MS wanted to wait for Palm to get their act together. However, I personally have some issues with the "market share" numbers that are thrown around, as those are based upon number of sales per year -- NOT the actual number of machines still in use.
According to PC Magazine (a stalwart of Wintel mindshare), the average lifespan of a Macintosh computer is between three and four times (!) the average lifespan of a Wintel computer. Given that Apple has about a 5% *sales* share, and that the machines last 3-4 times longer in actual use, that means that the number of actual machines in use are higher than 10%, and probably closer to 20% than the "less than 5%" that a lot of people use for the Macintosh "market share." That 20% number jibes very closely with the proportion of Macintosh computers that access major web sites (as reported by web sites). The Macintosh isn't *quite* the underdog that some people would like it to be. Besides, do you think that Microsoft would *really* spend all the money on setting up the MacBU and marketing MacOffice if it wasn't extremely profitable to them? -- Glenn L. Austin <>< <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (360) 281-5436 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
