My first home computer was a Mac. Since then, I went through two of them and a few pc based systems. I switched because of software availability, which has always been one of the primary selling points. I’ve watched Apple move up from near bankruptcy to the present day. They do not account for 48% of computer sales, even to home, but they nailed the internet image processing market. If you want digital video, get an Apple system to do it. This is now a huge sector.
I think the iPod and the iPhone drew a lot of customers back to Apple machines. It drew people to the company and into the stores. It seems to have helped them sell a large number of machines.
Sig, Apple accounts for 48% of the MONEY spent on retail sales of desktop computers and 33% of the money spent on retail sales of notebook computers sold at retail in the United States in October. They account for only 9.4 % of the total number of personal computers sold in the US during the same month. Essentially, the portion of those 9.4% that were desktop computer accounted for 48% of all the money spent at retail on desktop computers in the US.
In other words, 90.6% of computers sold with Windows and Linux installed on them, whether desktops, notebooks, or netbooks, account for the other 52% of the money. That is a fact.