So, count or don’t count the iOS devices as part of the OS X market share. In the end, Apple’s market share is grossly under counted. However, reality is reality and Apple is rapidly winning this game and won most of the battles.

Well, I’ve still never found a good statistic for Home vs Enterprise, but if we assume a 50%-50% split … along with that “Macs are Banned from the Workplace” bit, this would mean that roughly 1 in 4 home PCs are Macs.

-hh

So let’s make sure microsoft’s boad/shareholders remember there’s nothing to worry about and they should “stay the course.”

I predict Mac OSXI or OSXII (AKA iOS 7.x) might reach 50% or more, but not X.

I agree that the stock price is a bargain, so that’s why I’m long AAPL.

I think for us the big change in the next 5 years will be a transition to more mobile devices and on the desktop we’ll be moving to more thin clients.

There is a large cost in the traditional thick client and it is not always needed anymore.

Wtf!…
Ms has such a hold on the business IT sector it’s not even funny. Them amd rim also.. People like me are stuck in 2007.

Sad when half out office whips out iPhones or crapdroid phones to get anything done, or communicate.

Apple needs to target not only the consumer like they do, but please start showing “IT” that windows SUCKS.

Then again.. Most of IT would be out of a job if apple pushed it’s way into business.

If only they let me plug in my MBP to the network at work.. I could do my job in half the time. And write scripts to automate my job… (we have 3 programs to do NOT talk.. I have to input the same shit 3 times in 3 different java apps.. Stuck in the stone age at work)

What’s the deal with people saying no one’s interested in writing Mac viruses b/c of low share?

- There are several proof-of-concepts.
- There is some malware, where you have to type-in your password or at least blindly hit “OK.”
- There are several vulnerabilities, but – oh wait, you have to have physical access to the machine for them to work. (and they get patched regularly anyway)
- There is an OS X hack tool or whatever, but we never hear about anyone using it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
According to this, OS X = 7%

Add in MS’s support and it is not only hard to find a competing platform overall but its hard to take the risk with critical systems in the hands of another company. MS is a lot of things, some horribly wrong and backwards but they get the needs of enterprise computing and they work hard to deliver in that market.

A couple years ago we found an issue with windows XP and a certain internal enterprise application we use. Service pack 3 made a change that caused our software to randomly drop connections and lockup. Instead of telling us to “wait for the next version”, “change your code” or “sorry thats life” they sent us a patch for the OS tailored specifically for our enviroment. Saved us a ton of time and money.

Where are we going find support like that? Redhat has been that good to us but we are not about to deploy linux on our desktops because redhat does not take the enterprise desktop seriously.

We have deployed more macs recently but we go through a 3rd party for support. Apple really doesen’t put out the “we’ll be there for you vibe”

We are moving forward with ipad deployments too. We piloted them for almost a year and the certification process is done. We are pushing out a couple thousand in the next 2 months.

perhaps 10-20 years from now

I was at a meeting recently where we were discussing making all of our enterprise applications ipad friendly.

AppleInsider notes referred to the “total” market %, which is does not reflect the Apple sales growth rate which is variously from the supermajority 2 digit % to the 3 digit % level year over year.

I wonder what it would take to convince the Wall Street pricks that Apple has plenty of room to grow even in the desktop market space.

If Ballmer says that Microsoft Windows sales are increasing at next quarter’s finance announcement, I’m going to demand that he explain how Microsoft can keep selling more copies of Windows in a slumping Windows PC market place. I’m sure that Microsoft is selling MS Office upgrades, but I doubt that there are lots of new consumers users buying Microsoft Office for Windows.

Takes times but Apple is now building very strongly on their existing Customer base ….. And they always have but the base is getting larger and larger and growing faster and faster ….

One big help was Vista and the iPhone of course and iPad too but now you have the Air invading Window space, as well ….. And the look and style of the machines blow away most people and they associate their iPhone of iPad experience and off they go to the Apple Store ….

I’ve never seen growth rates like Apple is achieving.

A consumer’s perspective: The press and market surveys don’t seem to “see” (maybe ask for) consumer opinion on their dislike of Windows & propensity to switch if & when they can.

People tolerate Windows, but many still dislike/hate it.

Give an average 20something a choice today and you know what he is going to choose.

Thus when MDN & others refer to the “Expected Microsoft Windows X” market share in 20xx, I think they seriously miss the consumer mindset against BSOD’s, wireless issues, corruption w/viruses, etc. They are a nightmare at times.

I don’t know how Microsoft overcomes the animosity, unless they break it into 2-3 companies and change the names: MSOS, MSMobile, MSApps.