DISQUS

Mobilitysite: It’s An Apple Thing

  • Snow1985 · 1 month ago
    That graph shows why Linux ands Mac don't get viruses. Why attack an Os thats only going to effect a few thousand people.
  • topher · 1 month ago
    take away the business computers and check that market share stat again
  • Pony99CA · 1 month ago
    Take away government jobs and the unemployment rate goes up, too. So?

    As was reported here earlier, 85% of households that have Macs also have PCs. Add in the households that have PCs and no Macs and I bet that Windows still has 90% of the market.

    Steve
  • Pony99CA · 1 month ago
    Of course, the popularity of the iPhone helps, but for those of us why can remember BIP (Before iPhone) it was not much different back then. Apple made news.

    Except that Apple had the lion's share of the Digital Audio Player (DAP) market before the iPhone. Maybe BIP should be "Before iPod" instead. :D

    Steve
  • Zealot · 1 month ago
    Good point, even though iPods don't carry the weight with the public that the iPhone does.

    Maybe BIPoIP (Before iPod or iPhone)?
  • Pony99CA · 1 month ago
    The iPod had tons of weight with the public, which is why almost everybody owned one -- and because Apple marketed the crap out of it.

    Also remember that the iPhone was intended to be a combination phone and iPod, so I think "Before the iPod" still works. :D

    Steve
  • Seth · 1 month ago
    QUOTE: "If you consider the amount of coverage Apple gets for it’s Mac OS, and the number of fanboiz who continually shriek that Apple is gaining on Microsoft and now it is is only a matter of time before Redmond disappears completely, the picture seems like it is much different."

    I worry that you are undermining your own credibility by making claims like this. It makes you sound like the Windows equivalent of those you are accusing. In fact, I've never seen such a claim by any mainstream journalist providing Apple coverage, and citing cranks dredged up from comments section hardly qualified as a source, nor a statistical sample.
  • Zealot · 1 month ago
    If the statement had been made by a mainstream journalist I wouldn't have used the term Fanboiz, I would have said "mainstream journalists". Nor did I say it was a source or a statistical sample...rather a popular perception, and such things are indeed created, fed and nurtured by "cranks" in comments sections....and if you want a non-shrieking, perfectly reasonable version of the same sort of sentiment, see topher's comment below.
  • doogald · 4 weeks ago
    Good story in TechCrunch that analyzes why Apple is not as hung up over market share as people think that are, or should be.

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/while-riva...