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To: Clint Williams; SunkenCiv; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; Yaelle; Atom Smasher; sheik yerbouty; LucyT; ...
Seems to me that the sampling technique employed for this "survey" leaves much to be desired. The ratio of Windows users to MAC users in the real world is much greater than the 53 to 25 percent (a little over 2:1) obtained here. I don't know offhand the exact percentage of the personal computer market using MAC operating systems, but I'm sure it's nowhere close to one in three, and it may even be as low as single digits.
28 posted on 04/24/2011 8:01:01 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
"I don't know offhand the exact percentage of the personal computer market using MAC operating systems, but I'm sure it's nowhere close to one in three, and it may even be as low as single digits."

There was a recent thread regarding OS share, Statcounter has these numbers for April in the US (based on WWW user agent):

Operating System Market Share % Apr 11
Win7 31.98
WinXP 31.38
WinVista 18.92
MacOSX 14.89
iOS 1.17
Linux 0.71
Win2003 0.33
Playstation 0.3
Win2000 0.12
unknown 0.08
Nintendo 0.05
Win98 0.02
WinME 0.01
Android 0.01

The iOS numbers there are for iPad only. Mac market share has picked up quite a bit the last few years, and the trend shows no sign of slowing down.

According to the above, in the US there's about one Mac user for every 5.5 Windows users.

Even if the study has some validity, clearly the solution is to educate the misguided, foolish liberals so they adopt conservative views. ;-)

They have potential, 'cause at least they had the sense to pick the best computers... lol

92 posted on 04/25/2011 12:20:24 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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