Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share

Re:Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share by halo on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @01:12PM (#233155)

I don't think I'll ever understand this. Unless you own shares, one company's success over another isn't really anything worth celebrating. This isn't a good vs. evil situation no matter how much some people want to paint it that way.

Personally, I'm just happy that I can use any of the 3 major OSes these days without a problem, which is largely thanks to FireFox eating IE's marketshare on Windows.

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Re:Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share by cstejerean on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @01:21PM (#233171)

If you're an OS X user it is worth celebrating. Increased market share means more companies start paying attention to OS X which means more games, more software, better support and more employers starting to support/allow Macs.

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Re:Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share by tx on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:18PM (#233670)

I disagree. One of the reasons why Linux (and to a much lesser extent, OSX) rock so much is precisely because they aren't hugely popular.

Everything-windows is so commercialized, that even googling for home networking issues will keep landing you onto commercial message boards overloaded with ads and polluted by retards. And every little piece of shit software utility is $9.99 shareware.

10% won't be much of a problem, but I'm quite happy with how things are right now.

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Re:Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share by jobeirne on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @01:19PM (#233164)

It's analogous to seeing a really brilliant friend experience deserved, widespread success. It's a satisfying feeling to see earned triumph in any circumstance.

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Re:Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share by hugh on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:03PM (#233434)

Except that your brilliant friend, being your friend, gives a damn about you personally, and Mac OS X, being an operating system, doesn't.

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Re:Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share by aaronblohowiak on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @05:16PM (#233544)

Do you use windows? Compared to that user experience, Mac OS X is a whole lot more personable.

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Re:Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share by Hexstream on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @05:24PM (#233553)

If it's the case that someone has Vista misbehave continually in numerous ways and feels like the OS doesn't care, then if Mac OSX is a much more pleasant experience to that user then he will feel like the OS cares.

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Re:Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share by mechanical_fish on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @02:46PM (#233304)

It's an excuse to hold a worldwide party! What is there to understand? ;)

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Re:Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share by figurefaster on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:37PM (#233481)

Generally this is a good rule halo. But Mac OS X is a big exception.

5 years ago I predicted that MS would be gone and OS X would be the only widely available user friendly operating system (of course, the various Unix derivatives are going to survive and be healthy, but niche, players for many decades to come.. in fact Mac OS X is built on one of them, Mach 3 Unix, and is dependent on this programmer base for it's depth and stability).

I was obviously wrong in that prediction but "better late than never".

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