Re: Mac OS X at 8%

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"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Mac OS X is now at 8% and starting to approach double digit.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8&qpmr=100&qpdt=1
&qp
ct=
3&q
ptimeframe=M

If we accept your site's figures as true, it means twice as many
people
are
using Vista as are using all versions of Mac OS put together.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10

Sure.

But you also have to accept that fewer people are using Windows
(than
last month) and more people are using Macs (than last month) and
that
it's been a pretty consistent trend for...

...more than three years.

I can accept that trend for Internet usage. When it comes to market
share, OTOH, Apple is still around 3% of the world market.

And Internet usage reflects use by *people* as opposed to use by
machines that do a single task in a factory, etc.

Those single task computers in factories aren't being used by *people*,
huh
Alan? They've got robots at their keyboards? Or is it only using a
computer for Web browsing counts as using a computer?

Or is it that more Windows computers are hidden behind routers than Macs
are?

Hiding behind routers doesn't change the stats, Edwin.

Sure it does, Alan.

Nope. Not in the slightest. Each instance of a web page requested at one
of the sites participating is recorded.


The website is measuring web *usage*. How many page requests are being
made by different browsers/OSen. Those numbers don't change even if you
hid every Windows machine in the world behind the same router.

How would they possibly know whether one copy of IE made a hundred requests,
or if a hundred copies of IE made one request each? How would they know
if Firefox and IE weren't both running on one PC at the same time?

Why would it matter? What they're counting is how many web requests are
coming from various browsers and operating systems. And clearly, there
are more and more of those requests coming from Mac OS X.

Now if you can present an actual plausible scenario where that isn't
caused by a proportional rise in Mac usage, go ahead...

Excuse me if I don't hold my breath.


No, the only statistics that count are tied to IP addresses.



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