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.
Their statistic stinks. The article says, “. . . 48% of the retail dollars spent on personal computers. . .” and then you change it to “. . . retail sales of desktop computers. . .” and “33%” “. . . of retail sales of notebook computers. . .”
No way. Their 9.4% share is more like it, and that strikes me as including the iPhone as some kind of personal computer. It is one, so that’s confusing, if fair. Apple’s success is pretty impressive considering their competition. Their competition can pump out nearly worthless Microsoft based systems like a Chinese slave labor factory with diarrhea.
More than that,I’ve been fiddling with some video work recently and it looks like I’ll have to buy one after I get the rest of my guns out of hock.
Be careful in your wording there. There are devoted people who run Linux on Macs too. We Linux guys are kind of in the middle.
I rationalize it as Macs are branded as Apple products and sold directly by Apple. Generic X86 PCs have no specific branding and in some parts of the world, but not others, are required to come preloaded with Microsoft Windows.
The solution is obviously for Microsoft to follow suit with Apple and only sell Microsoft Windows on Microsoft branded computers coming from Microsoft and allow Dell, etc. to sell generic PCs with no O/S.
I haven't fully thought through the Psystar trial, but I'm not liking it very much so far as it means death to independent computer hardware sources. It would be more reasonable for them to treat Psystar as a Dell and work out some kind of a deal that way.