Definition of market share: "Market share refers to a brand's share of the total sales of all products within the product category in which the brand competes. Market share is determined by dividing a brand's sales volume by the total category sales volume."
Given that, web analytics aren't an accurate measurement of market share or install base, except to note that the majority of persons who access the monitored web sites use Windows machines. Extrapolation beyond this is difficult to certify, and concluding that the results of such a survey are conclusive, is disingenuous.
So, the author was apparently confused, and thus he has confused you. And all claims to the contrary of Apple's success is diminished by the fact that Apple is continuing to grow their market, grow their install base, and make inroads in the popular consumer electronics market with iPods, and the soon to be iPhone. Apple Deniers are in the same boat as Democrats when it comes to denying the success of someone just because their politics or their operating system disagrees with your own, their own tastes.
Macs work. Apple makes lots of money. Move on... Seriously.
You do realize that the site being used isnt going by sales but rather how many computers are actually being used?
Oh please, also Aplle Deniers the same as democrats? LOL APple users are democrats, I mean no choice in customizing the hardware, you can’t just build your own from scratch. I mean its users actually believe and tell all others that OS X never crashes, when they indeed do. Apple is only good for computing is it offers a choice, if it was the only game in town we would be living in a 1984 world of computing with no competition in hardware, heck who knows how far backwards technology would be if it was only Apple. No thank you I prefer freedom, I prefer to get dirty and build from scratch and choose what processor company, what sound card, what video card company, what motherboard maker and not be married to almighty Apple’s decision of whats best for me. The OS of Apple I have no problem with, but Apples closed hardware platform is nothing I want to do with.