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Using their weight, huh. Apple hit 10% market share with the Mac for the first time in 2012. I think it's something like 15% now.

jdmichal 10y ago
Their "weight" extends beyond their market share. As an easy example: There are many people that don't own an iPhone 7, but who also know that the iPhone 7 tossed the headphone jack.
AnAfrican 10y ago
well yes. If the share was calculated by individual PC models and not by company, even in the PC business, there would be a bunch of Apple stuff ranking quite high. So they can scale on many aspects much better than their competition. (plus they still have margins)
nailer 10y ago
Do you think laptops are the dominant computing device?
- DigitalJack 10y ago
  No. The context of the post is the one I replied to, which is often the case in a forum with threads, if that helps you out.
  - nailer 10y ago
    Glad you're aware of context, but apple jumping into new tech is responsible for their massive dominance of consumer computer computing which, you'll be pleased to be informed about, is mainly done on phones and tablets.
    - DigitalJack 10y ago
      Wow, you got me there. Apple ditched the floppy because they knew they could leverage the iphone 5 years later. And because they have a phone, they could totally ditch the cdrom, because, like, who wants to use a CD on their phone, right? And the ethernet jack! Man, I felt stupid having to plug my phone into the wall for the internets. But that headphone jack. Their phone totally blazed that trail, getting rid of that. Wait, what? The Macbook dropped it in 2015? Surely though, most people that have an iphone use a mac right? That's the leverage point! Well no, only about 10% of iphone users had a mac in 2015. Even if it was 1-1, what difference would it make? There's no leverage to be had. iphones work with windows last I checked, and the growing trend is not bothering to "sync" your phone with a computer at all.
      - nailer 10y ago
        Have you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html yet?
hota_mazi 10y ago
7% worldwide in 2016 [1]. [1] https://9to5mac.com/2016/04/11/apple-mac-market-numbers-idc/ https://9to5mac.com/2016/04/11/apple-mac-market-numbers-idc/
snowwrestler 10y ago
The last time I looked, the market share leader for desktop/laptop computers held just over 20%. Apple is a top-5 computer supplier in the U.S., top-10 worldwide.

jdmichal 10y ago

Their "weight" extends beyond their market share. As an easy example: There are many people that don't own an iPhone 7, but who also know that the iPhone 7 tossed the headphone jack.

AnAfrican 10y ago

well yes. If the share was calculated by individual PC models and not by company, even in the PC business, there would be a bunch of Apple stuff ranking quite high. So they can scale on many aspects much better than their competition. (plus they still have margins)

nailer 10y ago

Do you think laptops are the dominant computing device?

DigitalJack 10y ago
No. The context of the post is the one I replied to, which is often the case in a forum with threads, if that helps you out.
- nailer 10y ago
  Glad you're aware of context, but apple jumping into new tech is responsible for their massive dominance of consumer computer computing which, you'll be pleased to be informed about, is mainly done on phones and tablets.
  - DigitalJack 10y ago
    Wow, you got me there. Apple ditched the floppy because they knew they could leverage the iphone 5 years later. And because they have a phone, they could totally ditch the cdrom, because, like, who wants to use a CD on their phone, right? And the ethernet jack! Man, I felt stupid having to plug my phone into the wall for the internets. But that headphone jack. Their phone totally blazed that trail, getting rid of that. Wait, what? The Macbook dropped it in 2015? Surely though, most people that have an iphone use a mac right? That's the leverage point! Well no, only about 10% of iphone users had a mac in 2015. Even if it was 1-1, what difference would it make? There's no leverage to be had. iphones work with windows last I checked, and the growing trend is not bothering to "sync" your phone with a computer at all.
    - nailer 10y ago
      Have you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html yet?

hota_mazi 10y ago

7% worldwide in 2016 [1]. [1] https://9to5mac.com/2016/04/11/apple-mac-market-numbers-idc/ https://9to5mac.com/2016/04/11/apple-mac-market-numbers-idc/

snowwrestler 10y ago

The last time I looked, the market share leader for desktop/laptop computers held just over 20%. Apple is a top-5 computer supplier in the U.S., top-10 worldwide.