You are mixing market share dominance with market dominance. Two very different concepts.

That's exactly the contrast I was drawing, yet to only talk about only one creates a cognitive distortion. One strong enough to confuse people into thinking that Apple dominates the laptop market when I think, but can't find the specific confirmation numbers, that Lenovo sells more laptops. That's one brand vs. Apple. Consider the wider market, and "market dominance" is a much a misnomer in the small as "market share domination" is in the large.

The parent here was asking why the laptops are so great, but they are actually a minor, albeit interesting, part of the market and market share. By market metrics, they aren't that that amazing. They are outsold by another single brand and fall into the "Other" category when looking at market share.

All that is true, but it is also the biggest company in the world.

No, it's not. It's not even in the top ten.

On what metric? Market cap says they're top dog:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_...

Oh, fair enough. But I think that's a poor metric, since it's much more "virtual" than metrics that actually affect the economy, like turnover. I prefer Forbes average of four metrics: http://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2014/05/07/the-worlds-...

That Forbes article was also written when Apple's market cap was "only" $483B. As of today it is $680B.