Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline

Re:Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline by markerdmann on Thursday July 30, 2009 @09:58PM (#733584)

You make a good point, joechung, and I've been trying to find the related statistics. This is what I've been able to come up with so far:

Apple had 14% of the US retail PC market in Feb. 2008 -

This article claims the number was 8.7% in the 2nd quarter of 2009 -

According to this article on theappleblog.com, Apple has 4% of the global PC market as of July 2009 -

If anyone has more, I'd be very curious to see them (especially the ratio of sub-$1000 retail PC sales to $1000+ retail PC sales).

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Re:Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline by trapper on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:19AM (#733745)

Listening to "statistics" from people who quote percentages is really dangerous.

Percentages are really, really, easy to lie with. And for people who only quote percentages, this is usually what they are trying to do. Spin.

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Re:Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline by GQB on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:52PM (#734794)

You need both. Percentages are better for showing movement (e.g. growth), while absolute numbers give context.

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Re:Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline by eli on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:51PM (#734945)

4% globally could be right. Keep in mind that retail is just one slice of the pie. PCs dominate overwhelmingly in the enterprise.

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