That question is based on a faulty premise. Most of the Linux computers sold in the Far East are reformatted by customers with pirated copies of Windows.
Mac OS X is currently the #2 operating system in usage, between Windows and Linux.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Most of the Linux computers sold in the Far East are reformatted by customers with pirated copies of Windows.^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#2 by userbase, not by marketshare.
By apple's own numbers, they have roughly 25 million users.
Gartner projected linux to pass the mac this year(05) as #2 as well as IDC, who thought it more likely to have happened in 2003.
Apple is losing userbase to linux as well. Doesn't have to be much, but right off the top of my head I can think of a person who uses a mac, linux only. Linus Torvalds. It'd be plain stupidity to think he's the only one.
Mac is #3.