Lies, damn lies, and marketshare statistics

PC's is mostly rapscallions...

Now if only Apple could see that the world consists of more than the US. Prices on Apple hardware here in Norway is nearly twice the US. It's simply bloody rip-off. No wonder they have only a marginal market share in the rest of the world.

iPod Touch 16GB
US price: $399
Norwegian price: $612 (NOK 3,290)

iMac (20", 2.4 GHz)
US price: $1,499
Norwegian price: $2,230 (NOK 11,990)

All those statistics are missing the unnamed giant: custom made cheap grey boxes.

#12 know what you mean I'm about to become one of those PPC-using Mac users who will be upgrading... that would land me at #2. I did vaguely promise a friend of mine that I would pass my old one on but I don't know it would serve as a nice media center in the living room...

What to do What to do...

I don't think the number of computers per person is being considered. I myself own four Macs. I bet I'm not alonw. I just hate to part with them!

Yeah, klime I'm glad that dell nub works for you, give me a real trackpad any day (I have massive hands, that might be part of it).

Also, while I'd agree Vista isn't complete shit, I still prefer XP if I have to use Windows for something, if for no other reason than the UAC BS in Vista drives me nuts.

As to this, yeah I think we'll see a significant surge after leopard, as many PPC-using Mac users will be upgrading after that.

Makes sense. Apple clearly has the iPod halo effect working for it. While I love my MacBook/OSX, I can't say it outdistances Vista by miles. (And I have to admit that the trackpad drives me nuts... my Dell laptop has that little pointer thing embedded in the keyboard, like a Thinkpad, much better solution).

@5: "Lies, damn lies, and statistics" is a famous saying (there's dispute about who originated it--maybe Disraeli). The West Wing episode is also playing off of that same saying.

OK, according to Wikipedia, attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and popularized in the U.S. by Mark Twain. I should've checked first.

Umm, #5? It's a quote from Mark Twain, I think. Goes back a little farther than "The West Wing".