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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by Jgrubb on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:11AM (#13219895)
I suppose it depends on which masses you're referring to, but when I look around at any public place in New Jersey where there are people on laptops, I always see a very healthy representation of Mac users. Of all ages.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by bshimmin on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @09:47AM (#13220207)
Apple have something like a 10% market share. I think what you see in coffee shops and on expensive commuter trains is not at all representative; if you go into a Starbucks in a trendy part of east London, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Apple had a 95% market share, but I'm pretty sure if you go to, say, eastern Europe you'll see very, very few Macs.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by collyw on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:23PM (#13221825)
I have noticed that as well. Mac users seem to feel the need to use them in public for some reason.
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by alxndr on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:25PM (#13226782)
This could be explained by Macs working better on random networks and having better battery life than other laptops.

Anecdata: I know of several Windows laptops, but only one Mac laptop, which are now effectively desktops.

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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by collyw on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @09:55AM (#13229558)
Did those laptops start out as expensive as a Mac, or were they low end machines?
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Re:Tim Cook assures employees that Apple is committed to the... by scholia on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @10:43AM (#13220749)
Apple's PC market share is much higher in the USA than it is worldwide, and it's very low in Asia, apart from Japan.

Also, Apple's market share is much higher now than it was when the masses adopted PCs. That happened under Windows 95 (which nearly drove Apple out of business) and XP.

When Windows brought computing to the masses, Apple's global market share was closer to 2%.

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