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I know StatCounter isn't 100% accurate, but I'm stunned at OS X being at 27 percent usage share in the United States. I had always assumed OS X usage was still

I know StatCounter isn't 100% accurate, but I'm stunned at OS X being at 27 percent usage share in the United States. I had always assumed OS X usage was still at about 10%, which is where it was a decade ago. I suspect we'll see this creep up even further in the coming years, if Apple releases cheaper MacBooks (~$700), in response to Apple Silicon lowering their manufacturing costs. They've dramatically lowered the costs of the entry-level iPhones, iPads and watches and I don't see why that same strategy wouldn't come to the Mac.

lumost 6y ago
I think that gets to a major risk of continued windows focus by Microsoft, in 5 years it's possible that Windows market share will be below 50% with most new software written for nix systems. History has not looked kindly on OS's in such an environment, and further market declines may be inevitable as windows begins to look like a legacy platform or a use case specific platform (Games). I'd have to imagine that Microsoft has been thinking of what their Desktop OS play would be at that point, allowing windows to simply die a slow and profitable death would threaten other business lines such as Gaming. Non-Apple hardware vendors will be looking for OSX like systems to compete with a possibly dominant OSX platform.