Stop acting willfully ignorant, halfman. Those statistics show that Macs are enjoying much better growth than Linux.
About a year 1/2 ago, google put linux at around 1%. And there's no question that linux has grown.
Google Zeitgeist had Mac at 3%-to-4% in those reports, and there's no question that Mac has grown much more than desktop Linux since then.
For everyone who is sick and tired of Windows problems - don't waste your time with Linux. Linux is a great operating system for servers, but the user interface absolutely stinks for use on a desktop computer. Linux is not a good OS for the average computer user. Get a Mac instead - it's far better than Windows or Linux.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Google Zeitgeist had^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ok, so then wtf. You tell me that I'm being willfully ignorant, yet you know as well as I do that linux is at least at 1%. You post numbers that *now* peg it at .3 or whatever while at the same time putting MacOS at 4. Both numbers are simply impossible to attain unless the sources you are citing are only focusing in on one market(american), or they are picking and choosing the websites they attain logs from. That's the only way.
Based on worldwide computer numbers, apple simply can't have 4%. Apple only pegs it's userbase at around 25 mil. Thus my tagline, apple's own numbers are hard to argue with.
Yet here you are, arguing the impossible.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Those statistics show that Macs are enjoying much better growth than Linux.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Which show how flawed your numbers are. If mac growth is that good then they must only be specific to the american market. Apple's computers are too expensive to be growing in most nations, besides parts of europe, japan, and Australia. The rest of the world isn't going apple. They're pirating windows or going linux.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Google Zeitgeist had Mac at 3%-to-4% in those reports, and there's no question that Mac has grown much more than desktop Linux since then.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Google Zeitgeist had Mac at 3%.
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/zeitgeist-jun04.html
Which interestingly enough(without going back and looking) this is also where Gartner and IDC pegged them. Hmmmmm....
Hopefully Googl will do this again soon. There's no question in my mind that Apple's userbase has grown, percentage wise is a different story though. There's no question that Linux has grown too. The question is where are they now.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Linux is a great operating system for servers, but the user interface absolutely stinks for use on a desktop computer.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That has been proven demonstrably wrong. Linux as a desktop falls somewhere inbetween Win and Mac.