Comments on: Mac climbs to record 7.95% share in Net Applications survey

By: Eric, Cincinnati OH

Eric, Cincinnati OH — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:48:14 +0000

Wow, we live in a world full of smugs and they just perfuse through these comments. How about you use what you like and stop trying to bash someone else to get your point across. Its called lead by example and non of you trash talkers will ever claim to be one of those leaders. My company makes millions of dollars running windows software as we are fully electronic here and we aren't saving our systems everyday like you people claim to. Vista is much more secure and runs great over here, I never get any examples of why it is garbage, its just always garbage to a Mac fan, and funny thing is they have never used it in most cases. Go read some tech blogs of industry leaders and you will see that Apples last leapord patch did a job on many systems out there. Wake up fools, your talking to the wrong person about your agenda's. My agenda is that I enjoy using it and would like people to act like they are confident in their own choice and not bashing me with "garbage" statements. I guess I am just a level headed human being.

By: Tim, Oklahoma City, OK

Tim, Oklahoma City, OK — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:44:04 +0000

Macs are far more stable, reliable than any Microsoft OS, NO I don't have an agenda, just experience, and anyone who says anything good about Vista has an agenda.

By: Mike, Houston, TX

Mike, Houston, TX — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:24:46 +0000

A trash collector in New York once said in all the years of collecting trash, he always sees PC's being thrown out.

But never once did he ever see anyone throw out an Apple Computer.

Maybe this is why sales figures do not reflect actual usage.

By: Dallas Computer Repair

Dallas Computer Repair — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:52:44 +0000

We think its great that MAC is jumping up in market share. They offer a very stable OS and with Office 07 for MAC its even better.Dallas Computer Repair

By: Snewt, San Francisco, CA

Snewt, San Francisco, CA — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:43:30 +0000

Regarding "Market Share"

Since Macs are well known to remain in service much longer than the average windows PC, the stats from the internet are a better measure of actual 'installed' market share than sales – because sales treats Macs and PC's as equivalent.

By: Eric, Cincinnati OH

Eric, Cincinnati OH — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:06:53 +0000

I love these reports, they get Apple fans all hyped up and thinking they are gonna rule the world. Funny how the Apple fans would love to have a monopoly like they always thought Microsoft did. We live in a world of hypocrits and its so funny. They trash the other guy all day and never give a good reason as to why my Vista machine runs like a champ. Don't go around calling something garbage when there are plenty of happy customers that get everything done they want to. 8 months strong and no crashes or issues except a video driver when it first came out. Wow we live in a cynical world and the media folks are always about being better than everyone else and well many Apple fans think they are better than you or me. I used to be a Mac fan until they closed out the clones and became the ultimate proprietary system. Thank god they did not become the mainstay after that, as we would not have the competition and advancements in hardware that we have today. All I can say is that Vista is not garbage and anyone that tells you that just has an agenda. Politics in America, gotta love it.

By: Ron Yochum, Pittsburgh, PA

Ron Yochum, Pittsburgh, PA — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:21:51 +0000

Apple is a Growth Industry:

Whoever measures Apple notices the fact that the market share continues to grow.

Over the last year, our company web site consitantly shows Apple at 12%.

Windows 85.70%

Macintosh 12.63%

Linux 1.37%

iPhone 0.09%

By: Sean, Ottawa Canada

Sean, Ottawa Canada — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:44:40 +0000

I used to have an Apple II plus, hated the Macintosh and went with windows 3.1, 95, 98, XP… Now I am a linux person and the Mac is light years ahead of the PC. MS is in big trouble, the quality of Dell etc sucks and my iMac rules. I was hesitant bacause of the price point, but it sure is worth it. Mac controls quality much better. I bought and returned a Sony vista machine after 1 day it just was not workable. Now I do my work plus make movies and enjoy my music and tv… awesome. Vista can't even compare. I wish Apple would drop their prices but definitely not do generic clonses like HP/Dell/Toshiba they suck.

By: Joe, Chicago IL

Joe, Chicago IL — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:29:34 +0000

There are many people like myself that like Vista. It does come loaded with to many features enabled by default and has some backward capatiblity issues. For those of us who have been tinkering with and re-installing Windows since version 3.1, Vista is another step up in technology. Re-installing periodically is no longer required with Vista. For the non power user Macs may be the better choice. Some power users may also want it for the Unix internals, but if you want that Linux can provide it for free.

By: Ray Hartford CT

Ray Hartford CT — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:27:21 +0000

I do not understand why Apple does not sell its software on a standalone basis and go head to head with Microsoft?

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because the jig would be up for apple over charging for off the self hardware and upgrades. wouldn't want Dell/asus/HP using the same parts and charging 1/3rd+ less