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I'd argue in terms of the PC battle, despite how good a Mac is (I'm writing this on one) I'd say they've still firmly lost in this market. "Measured as sales t
by spiderfarmer 10y ago
I'd argue in terms of the PC battle, despite how good a Mac is (I'm writing this on one) I'd say they've still firmly lost in this market.
"Measured as sales through the U.S. consumer retail channel, Macs reached rather shocking milestone during first half 2015, according to data that NPD provided to me today. Yes, you can consider this a first, and from lower volume shipments. By operating system: OS X, 49.7 percent; Windows, 48.3 percent; Chrome OS, 1.9 percent. That compares to the same time period in 2014: OS X, 44.8 percent; Windows, 53.1 percent; Chrome OS, 2.1 percent. So there is no confusion, the data is for U.S. consumer laptops."
http://betanews.com/2015/08/12/yikes-apple-laptop-revenue-share-exceeds-windows-pcs/ http://betanews.com/2015/08/12/yikes-apple-laptop-revenue-sh...
I'd say market share is less important than revenue share, but Apple considered the loser in this market? I still don't get why market share is getting all the attention.
- FussyZeus 10y agoIMHO that would be due more to Microsoft completely screwing their relationship with a ton of users than Apple doing anything particular. Not that it invalidates anything you've said, a win is a win. Anyway just because a company has won hard and won hard for awhile that doesn't particularly shield them from losing later on, however I'd say my point stands, from roughly 1992 to 2014 Microsoft dominated the PC market.
- wmil 10y agoApple has been dominant in the non-budget laptop category for a while. PCs still control the corporate market, but that isn't growing like it used to.