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Re: Only 80 million Macs ?

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On 2014-06-04 23:08:59 +0000, JF Mezei said:

> 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.

Why did you switch to 50 million from 80 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.
> 
> 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 ?

Since very few PC manufacturers actually tell you how many machines 
they've sold, it's a little hard to say.

But if you go here:

<http://barefigur.es/apple/>

You can see that the 80 million figure looks pretty reasonable.

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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
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