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Since people tend to keep Macs longer,

Actually, no. Macs may be premiums devices, which cost more, but, that doesn't mean that Mac owners will keep their devices longer. In fact, Macs may have shorter "keep spans", since, Mac OSes tend to become obsolete after about 3-5 years and the corresponding devices become unsupported. The devices may still continue working with the older OSX versions, but, how many Apple fanatics want to be seen with older tech? The Apple fanatics try to keep up with their neighbors and friends, and would not be caught dead in a Starbucks with an obsolete Mac device.

that may be more like 15-20% of laptops in use.

I'd expect the opposite, with Macs just making up some 5-7% of the overall market for installed and used "PCs". And that is the traditional market share for Macs in the laptop/desktop market.

With Windows 10 being near spyware,

It's no more spyware than Macs, and it's a lot less spyware than iPhones and iPads. Google and Apple operate by snooping in on everything people do with their devices. Apple and Google actually depend on snooping in on people's computing habits, in order to post advertising and sell stuff to people. Whereas, Microsoft just captures 'metadata', which they use to monitor how Windows 10 and other Microsoft software and services are being used, and to monitor for problems. Metadata is not 'content', and content is what Google and Apple depend on in order to enhance their earnings. That's a lot more spying than what Microsoft does.

I'm pretty ready to drop 20 years of MS use.

You're so full of it. You likely don't use Windows or Microsoft stuff, but you felt you needed to take the opportunity to bash Microsoft. No matter what you say or how you feel, Windows and Microsoft's office software and cloud operations, are still the most used and needed on the planet. Macs are only good when they are used to run Microsoft's stuff, including Windows.

I even called my first business "Windows of a Opportunity". Now it's "Open Windows - we can know all about you."

When you don't know what the heck you're talking about, you can call it 'Bullshit". So, how much more do you know about Windows 10 than Microsoft? How much 'real spying' is being done by Windows? Don't just talk about how Microsoft spies with Windows 10. Prove it with your own analysis, if you're so 'computer savvy'.