Apple's market share falls/rises, depending on who you ask

Stan Trevena at Modesto City Schools needs to get to work, he spends WAY too much time spamming the edtech listserve with stupid stuff like this article.

I loved the Ireland comment. Zero mac stores in Ireland... how does that equate to a "pattern" forming? =p Oh and one last thing, there are 27 authorized resellers listed for Ireland on apples website... I see a pattern forming!!

-S

McDonalds sells more burgers than your local grocery store but which ones taste better? Walmart has a greater market share than any local fashion store outlet but where do you buy your clothes? More people drive Hyundai's than they do BMW's but which car drives better?

Market Share is a waste of time and is does not effect the mac business model as much as everyone assumes otherwise Apple would have been out of business years ago. Compare Apple to HP, Compaq, or even Dell rather than PC verses Macs and you will see closer numbers.

I don't have my 8500 anymore due to a meltdown a few years ago but when I get the funds I will have a Mac again...

It's only a matter of time and the user base will keep growing as the product gets better...

Well that's not fair! The only reason why there are more people buying PC is becauses their old ones are full of viruses!

Since when is AutoCad serious business software? I guess to architects it is, but most people's "offices" use Ofice in some form. Guess what? Office has been on the Mac since day one. Barring proprietary software, what are you talking about?

It would be really interesting to know what percentages are for residential only. I bet the pie would be maybe 10% more on the Mac side. For every one residential Mac user, there is probably 5 call centers with 200 Peecees.

I definitely agree with Kate on the matter of business apps. I was just thinking that when they aired the "fun" Mac comercial. If Apple can convert more business oriented apps to be compatible with the Macs then their market share would take off faster. I think this will be easy because of the universal binarythink that came with the Intel Macs.

Also I think many people are forgeting that Apple's Intel Macs were the first and are probably the best Vista ready machines on the market. So yeah Microsoft's stock may shoot up when ever Vista hits the market, but Apple's stock should continue to rise and rise more so once Vista releases.

We have to remember that Apple and Microsoft aren't really competeting the way they were before, now the two companies are going to be able to complement each other which might work heavily in Apple's favor.

#19... I checked yahoo finance and dell has a greater market cap than apple. were you talking about something else like

Kate: Apple doesn't need t he business apps. That's not their target - business is not who they're aiming for. They're aiming at the home user, which is the place to be in the USA. It's quickly becoming a much larger market than the business world (I know, seems crazy - but think of all the teenagers who don't work a desk job). I recently graduated from a well known university (think blue...think football) and when I started there Mac's were confined to a little lab in the corner that no one ever visited. There's know Mac's in the library, and whole classes are being taught in the Mac Lab (design-related courses). Mac has it's market, and it's simply a better OS than Windows hands down - why? *nix. Mac's are more secure and stable because they are based on an OS that was originally made to seperate users from the system, that's how it started, seperation of powers from the beginning. Windows is playing catch up, it didn't have any sort of permissions until NT - many years after *nix systems. And it didn't have both permissions and seperation of OS from applications until Windows 2000. Mac took a good OS and made it pretty, and it's been making inroads ever since.