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Ummmm... Because nobody uses it...

Only about 25,000,000 nobodies...

Last quarter Apple's market share topped 6.6% of all personal computers shipped.

Last quarter Apple's market share topped 6.6% of all personal computers shipped

Thanks for backing me up on that. Yes, 6.6% is nobody. Attacking 93.4% gets noticed.

>>> bogus numbers, the 6.6% number? To be in eighth place behind Gateway doesn't sound promising either<<<

Macnewsworld using IDC data says:
By Brad Gibson
The Mac Observer
07/27/05 9:15 AM PT

Apple Worldwide Market Share Inches to 2.5 Percent

"...The worldwide Q2 results put Apple in eighth place behind the likes of Dell, HP and Gateway.

[worldwide]...Apple's 2.5 percent share in calendar Q2 is also a slight increase over the 2.3 percent share it had in the first quarter of this year....

[US] ..IDC has adjusted Apple's Q2 U.S. market-share, lowering it slightly to 4.4 percent, TMO has learned.."

http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/44995.html

It appears from your inaccurate numbers that aside from no threat from virus writers, Apple's number crunching potential/usefulness is also equally limited.

Then again this sentence may say it all "Much of Apple growth was spurred by help from sales of the iPod digital media device..."

Apple users probably never have problems cuz they really never actually sign on to the web, they only powerup to look at photos of themselves while listening to their iPod given this headline "Apple Unveils Photo Software for Pros"...

Found some non-IDC data but it's worse:

DESKTOPS:
For the fourth quarter of 2004, Apple's worldwide desktop market share was 1.75 percent, up from 1.51 percent in the third quarter of 2004 and up year over year from the 1.32 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003.

LAPTOPS -US:
For the fourth quarter of 2004 Apple had 4.99 percent portable market share, down from the 6.15 percent in the third quarter of 2004 and down year over year from the 5.09 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003.

LAPTOP -WW:
had 2.93 percent market share for the fourth quarter of 2004, down from the 3.59 percent registered in the third quarter of 2004 and down year over year from the 3.44 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/20/marketshare/index.php