Yeah, think we've been through this before. You don't buy the NPD group's #s. I can find #s showing low mac share or high. It's tough to know what is true.
But your Firefox example wasn't a good one. I can't find a survey that has Firefox *BELOW* 20%. 2011/5/14 Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com>: > > > > > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, phil swenson <phil.swen...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> > iOS is selling in record numbers, MacOS sales are still extremely small >> > (and >> > I'm guessing they will shrink since Apple seems to be slowly focusing >> > away >> > from the Mac line). >> >> Depends on how you look at it. It seems you view technology as an >> inevitable commodity so I can see why you like to relegate Macs to an >> "extremely small" niche. But macs have around 20% of the US retail >> market share: >> http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/10/20/study-mac-claims-20-percent-us-consumer-market-share/ > > These numbers come from Apple themselves, so I don't place a lot of trust in > them. > Thurrott is a pretty impartial observer and he also cites his sources (he > basically averages the three main neutral publishers of these numbers), and > according to him, the numbers were 8.8% in the US and ~6% in the world > (citing of memory, refer to the links I posted previously) in Q4 2010. >> >> Worldwide, much less (the surveys are all over the place, so I don't >> know what to believe). And I would agree inside business, Mac's >> market share is extremely small. >> >> Mac market share has gone nowhere but up (outpaced PC growth for 20 >> quarters in a row), so I don't see any indication that it will shrink. >> Just because they have other product lines doesn't mean they will >> abandon the Mac. > > Again, exercise caution when using growth as an indicator of success, > especially when this growth is happening from absolute numbers in the single > digits. Firefox should be a good cautionary tale here: they did great for a > while but then were never able to break the 20% barrier. > -- > Cedric > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
