Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 16th Dec 2007 00:02 UTC
Apple and Linux are engaged in battle a battle to win over disgruntled Windows users. But who will win, and what will the consequences be for the loser? The most commonly held belief amongst Apple and Linux fanboys is that both factions are engaged in some kind of a war with Microsoft. The truth is that if you look at the market share figure for Windows, Mac and Linux, both Mac OS and all the Linux distros that have ever been released are dwarfed by Windows.
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> And like it or not, the US is a rather more important
> market than Italy.
You can argue that in the US as a whole there are 1. more customers, 2. there is more money to get. So, however important for managers, the US figures of Apple _sales_ in the US are in no way representative for the overall development of Apples worldwide market share in comparison with Linux.
I've at home in three EU countries, and I personally have _never ever_ seeny anybody "switch" to a mac. At the same time I've encountered loads of "average computer users" using Linux and having no problems with it: IT people, engineers, companies, schools, pensioners, my own parents, and so on. Comparing to these real life figures I've only heard about mac users on internet forums. I've never seen an Mac ad on television.
Apple isnt interested at all in increasing their overall market share, since they are primarilly interested in increasing their sales and profits, maybe the same way luxury car manufacturers like Porsche are.