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Re: Only 80 million Macs ?

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In article <538fa70c$0$26681$c3e8da3$f6268168@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 
> During the WWDC keynote, I believe Tim Cook mentioned they had an 80
> million macintosh installed base. (please correct me if wrong).
> 
> This compares to over 500 million IOS devices. (and would put into
> perspective the sales/profit potential of IOS devices vs OS-X ones and
> hence development budgets. Looks to me like OS-X is now riding on the
> IOS' coat-tails, while initially it was the other way around.
> 
> When you compare this to the 1980s when the CEO of Digital stated there
> was no need for personal computers, 50 million is a huge number. But I
> am curious on how it compares with today's total installed base ?
> 
> From a worldwide perspective, I am surprised it is as low as 50 million.
> In meetings I go to, I now notice those few who don't have a laptop with
> the ubiquitous lighted Apple logo on them. I would have expected the
> installed based to be much higher.
> 
> We know that Apple's new sales market share sites somewhere between 6
> and 10% or perhaps higher by now since Macs sales still grow whereas PC
> sales go down.

That doesn't necessarily follow. Part of the reason for PC sales going
down is the "financial crisis" and people, especially businesses,
simply keeping their computers longer.



> However, how does the Mac installed base compared to the PC installed
> base ? Is it roughly the same as the sales market share, or is there a
> vast difference ?

That depends on which set of inaccurate statistics you want to stupidly
believe. There's no real way to get an actual accurate number.

Many of the "market share" statistics are obtained by using web-user
statistics, but what about people who don't use the internet? 

Other statistics come from current sales data, but what about people
who are still using "obsolete" computers (like me) or seconds-hand
computers? 

Other statistics come from manufacturing, but what about the computers
that fail and are returned for replacement and those that are never
sold?

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Only 80 million Macs ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-06-04 19:08 -0400
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  Re: Only 80 million Macs ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-06-04 22:08 -0400
    Re: Only 80 million Macs ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-06-04 23:19 -0400
  Re: Only 80 million Macs ? Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2014-06-04 20:18 -0700
  Re: Only 80 million Macs ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-05 04:27 +0000

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