Now either you are calling the published articles, IDC's own reports lies, or you are lying. PROVE YOUR 2.5% figure. If Apple's undisputed Mac sales of 1,610,000 for Quarter 3 are only 2.5% of all US sales, then US sales of computers for that quarter were 64,400,000. That is not true. Quarter3 2006 US computer sales were 16,956,000. Do the math... just don't make false claims you can't back up.
I have proven mine. Do I have to provide the chart AGAIN? You make claims; I provide proof.
I think I will post it again:
Notes:
• IDC estimates for Gateway & Toshiba are prior to financial earnings reports.
• Shipments include shipments to distribution channels or end users. OEM sales are counted under the vendor/brand under which they are sold.
• PCs include Desktop, Notebook, Ultra Portable, and x86 Servers.
• PCs do not include handhelds. Data for all vendors are reported for calendar periods.
Source, IDC, October 18, 2006
Let's READ the chart... it says ". . . U.S. PC Shipments, Third Quarter 2006). . ." and then it says ". . . 4 Apple 975(,000) 5.8%. . . " and then it says ". . . All Vendors 16,956(,000) 100%. . .">. I'll let you do the math to learn that Apple sold 5.8% of all PCs sold in the United States of America in the third quarter of 2006.
They don't represent PC or Mac sales. They merely represent PC or Mac users in the limited sites they monitor, and their figures have always been very different, and much more skewed aginst Microsoft than figures from the much better known and more reliable Websidestory.
Now I think you need to document that claim. In actual fact Webapplications.com is skewed toward Windows centric websites, not Apple.
Your claims fly in the face of all other statistics, Shaw. Back them up. Provide the data you claim exists. I can provide sources... you make and repeat unfounded assertions without providing proof.