Re: Only 80 million Macs ?

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Only 80 million Macs ?
Date	2014-06-05 04:27 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
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  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.

No. Over 800 million iOS devices and over 500 million iPhones.

> From a worldwide perspective, I am surprised it is as low as 50 million.

80 Million.

> However, how does the Mac installed base compared to the PC installed
> base?

It doens’t.

> Is it roughly the same as the sales market share, or is there a
> vast difference ?

A vast difference. how many PCs are there? well, no one really knows,
but is it a billion? Yeah, almost certainly. Is it two billion? Maybe.
No one is counting "number of PCs" though, so numbers are a guess.

Many "PCs" are cash registers, ATM machines, and other similar devices.
Many PCs are servers running some linux/bsd variant and sitting in
server colos.

-- 
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for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales/That would make you
blood	run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,/But the
queerest they ever did see Was the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge/
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    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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