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Apple sells about 20 million Macs a year according to this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-mac-computers-since-first-quarter-2006/ ht
by JohnBooty 6y ago
Apple sells about 20 million Macs a year according to this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-mac-computers-since-first-quarter-2006/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-ma...
What percentage of that is possibly due to folks buying Macs just to run Safari? Pure speculation on my part but I don't believe it can be more than a percentage of a percentage.
Was there a sudden increase when the Windows version of Safari was discontinued in 2010? It's hard to say exactly, because there are an awful lot of factors involves in sales numbers, but I don't see any evidence to suggest that's the case.
Also: think about your average dev or dev shop that buys a Mac just to make sure their stuff works on Safari. Are they buying a shiny new high-margin Mac? Oh heck no. They're buying the cheapest possible new Mac or, more likely, they're getting some cheapo preowned Mac. Or perhaps even more likely, they're using a service like Browserstack.
They wouldn't shoot their entire web strategy in the foot just to sell some negligible additional amount of Macs per year.