They can't even make a measely 5 % market share after 30 years of growing.
Well, if my relative is any indication of why sales are like that -- considering that he's gone through 3 laptops in the time I still have one that works just fine -- I can see how those guys boost their sales "three times" by selling crapware... LOL ...
But, what has been happening is that Windows users have been discovering the long life and good construction of the Apple Macintosh computers, plus the fact that you don't have repairs on them.
Heck! I tried to help out another one of my relatives (it was a cousin of mine who has a daughter and her laptop was an HP and it just gave up the ghost, no way to fix it without spending as much for it as a new one.) And then she gets another one (she did want a Windows one... unfortunately for her) and I helped her get one on sale -- and just one year later, it gives up the ghost... poor girl. Her dad got her a new desktop... one of those really cheap one that fall apart in a year or so... too bad for her, but that's the way it goes for these Windows users... ya know.
I can definitely see why they have those high sales... LOL... sell three computers for one of the Macintosh... yeah, "that's the ticket" all right ... LOL ...
That's one definite reason for those Apple Retail Stores having 50% of their sales going to former Windows customers... those are the ones who have discovered quality and how they don't have to buy three computers for the price of just one in the Macintosh world... doncha know...
Heck! I've heard stories of some people (yes, this is true... in the Windows world, believe it or not...) -- that just make a point of getting rid of their computer after a year, because it's so trashed up in a year's time that they can't use it any longer ... LOL...
I've heard all sorts of stories from those poor Windows people... "Oh the humanity of it all..." :-)
Let your inevitable "relative" chew on this:
Apple loses yet again! They don't even appear on the chart. Apple is bundled with the dreaded "others".