As MacDailyNews reported this weekend (please see related articles below), Aliso Viejo, CA-based Net Applications announced November 2007 Operating System (and Browser) usage stats. With a new, enhanced marketshare site, Net Applications is now able to analyze global marketshare trends in much greater depth.
Net Applications now tracks more trends, summarizes OS versions better, and are now able to view market share by continent, country and even by state/province. Their new Mac OS usage map for the US provided “an immediate visual impact,” Net Applications ask in their December 1st Newsletter.
Net Applications writes, “Higher percentage Mac usage states almost perfectly match up with states that typically vote for Democrats. So, do Democrats prefer Macs? The correlation is striking.”
2004 US presidential election results by state:
(red=Republican, blue=Democrat)
2004 US presidential election results by county:
(red=Republican, blue=Democrat)
Meanwhile, the Mac continues to gain ground in Net Applications measurements of online share. November 2007 usage statistics show that globally, 6.8% of all computers online are Macs. That is the highest percentage Net Applications has seen to date.
More info via Net Applications’ report – “Democrats Vote for the Mac?” – here.
MacDailyNews Note: For what it’s worth:
Apple’s U.S. Retail Store Locations:
Also, via Wikipedia:
Prior to the 2000 presidential election, there was no universally recognized color scheme to represent political parties in the USA. The practice of using colors to represent parties on electoral maps dates back at least as far as the 1950s, when such a format was employed within the Hammond series of historical atlases. Color-based schemes became more widespread with the adoption of color television in the 1960s and nearly ubiquitous with the advent of color in newspapers. A three-color scheme — red, white and blue, the colors of the U.S. flag — makes sense, and the third color, white, is useful in depicting maps showing states that are “undecided” in the polls and in election-night television coverage.
Early on, the most common—though again, not universal—color scheme was to use red for Democrats and blue for Republicans. This was the color scheme employed by NBC—David Brinkley famously referred to the 1984 map showing Reagan’s 49-state landslide as a “sea of blue”, but this color scheme was also employed by most newsmagazines. CBS during this same period, however, used the opposite scheme—blue for Democrats, red for Republicans. ABC was less consistent than its elder network brothers; in at least two presidential elections during this time before the emergence of cable news outlets, ABC used yellow for one major party and blue for the other. As late as 1996, there was still no universal association of one color with one party. If anything, the majority of outlets in 1996 were using blue for the GOP and red for the Democrats.[citation needed]
But in 2000, for the first time, all major electronic media outlets used the same colors for each party: Red for Republicans, blue for Democrats. Partly as a result of this near-universal color-coding, the terms Red States and Blue States entered popular usage in the weeks following the 2000 presidential election…
The choice of colors in this divide is counter-intuitive to many international observers, as throughout the world, red is commonly the designated color for parties representing labor, socialist, and/or liberal interests, which in the United States would be more closely correlated with the Democratic Party. Similarly, blue is used in these countries to depict conservative parties which in the case of the United States would be a color more suitable for the Republicans.
More here.
“Do Democrats prefer Apple Macs?”
Yes, and Republicans prefer cherry dames…..
People you have it all WRONG!!! Beautiful women and handsome guys ALL use macs. That is the true link.
Tell me I am wrong.
So this means that, by the numbers, in the US population there are between 5-10% Democrats and so on. This does not work out right. Go figure, stats can be manipulated to mean anything you want.
Kerry, for sure, uses BOTH Macs and PCs. Ha!
,,,,and Ampar…5 pages ? No way. Its early in the Xmas season and people have Xmas spirit. If this was in the week before Xmas…ha! Xmas spirit my commercial ass! Get out of the way, there is a frikken sale damnit. Must be all PC owning republicans here at WalMart.
Heh heh heh
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Republican and own 3 Intel Macs 1 PPC
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It’s really easy:
Republicans= Me me me, money for me, short-sighted, Now now now.
Democrats= Me AND others, social capital, future can be better
Do an overlay based on education level and I’m guessing you’ll see an even more decisive correlation.
Let’s be real about this political thing. Given the growth of government spending under the republicans, it’s now conclusive that both parties due verily sucketh. As in.
“How much did you make last year? Give it to me.”
Jeff
If you think it is that easy, then it is you, not the platforms, that is simple.
It is a shame to get Apple even mentioned in politics. Remember what happened to the Pepsi guy and Steve Jobs? A great company like Apple is an envy by everyone in the world.
Macronancy – It’s not all about money dude.
Yes it is. You’ll understand when you’re a bit drier behind the ears.
Republicans just aren’t funny. Other than funny in the mean, petty way that Rush is. I can only think of one funny living Republican and that is P.J. O’Rourke. They just don’t do funny well.
P.J. O’Rourke is one of the funniest humans ever. And I’m including Pliny the Elder.
Hey, TowerTone, do you think Frank and Eddie are the same person?
Buster: O.K., but Happy Hannukah to you and everyone!
@Ampar…was trying to throw a bit of fuel on the fire but alas I doubt it will work.
I do agree with Asian watcher in that it seems silly to get Apple and politics dragged into a discussion. I think that anyone with a modicum of intelligence, that has had a reasonable exposure to a Mac will either switch or at least appreciate their value. I have seen this time and time again and I am sure most here have as well.
Now a link between republicans/democrats and tickle me Elmo’s…now there is something worth a discussion.
I think it’s in Republican Party Reptile, where he’s talking about pickup trucks… I seriously had internal bleeding by the time he got to “…spin all four wheels axle-deep in the mud, instead of just two..”
AAMOF, I think I’ll read that again. The weather in Seattle at the moment is enough to get Richard Simmons down.
“Jeff” said on Dec 03, 07 – 05:57 pm:
“It’s really easy:
Republicans= Me me me, money for me, short-sighted, Now now now.
Democrats= Me AND others, social capital, future can be better”
Yep… you are right. It IS easy to be compassionate when it’s not your money to spend.
p.s. This topic is boring.
There is a correlation, http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2004/12/3/11290/0220, but I don’t think that this story necessarily shows that.
I sense a party at Buster’s place! Can we bring our own hookers?
And have some skank-ass working my party?
I have got to party with ChrissyOne.
“do you think Frank and Eddie are the same person?”
I don’t think Frank is Frank, but rather an amalgamation of anxiety proffered upon us to prolong or intensify for entertainment the remedial concept that I can gain from the knowledge they possess, but which they cannot extend, due to my inability to grasp the complexities of their enlightenment.
And who da fsck is Eddie?
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“I have got to party with ChrissyOne.”
Reminds me of an old saying…..
Two is company
Three and a half is a crowd!
It IS easy to be compassionate when it’s not your money to spend.
What exactly makes it yours? If you’re a wage slave, it’s never really your money anyway, you’re just holding it temporarily for the corporations that surround you. If you’re in the top half of the top 1%, well, the money isn’t coming in off of any hard work, it’s all coming from supplying capital.
So if Carlton supplies the money for Wesley to run a plant where Brad manages twenty Mexicans who create a million widgets which Britney and Scarlette sell through a retail outlet (that Carlton bought from Thurston three years ago), who “deserves” the revenue from all the widgets and by what proportions? Carlton says, “well, I supplied the capital, without that, none of this would have happened.” Wesley says, “well, I managed the plant that produced the widgets which created all the revenue, without that function, none of this could have happened.” Brad says, “well, I smuggled in and managed the workers who produced the widgets, without that function, nothing would have been done.” The twenty Mexicans say, “Well, we made the widgets, without us, you wouldn’t be selling many widgets.” Britney and Scarlette say, “Like duh! It was our inherent hotitude and complete lack of morals that sold those widgets, without us, there would be no revenue.”
What this demonstrates is that labor is not the determining value in this equation of revenue redistribution. Since we all know how this redistribution goes, the obvious determining factor is scarcity of functional suppliers. Britney, Scarlette and the twenty Mexicans are completely replaceable. Brad and Wesley are a little more skilled so there will be a lot less available replacement labor in the market. Still replaceable, but doing so may have some detrimental effects. Obviously, the rarest commodity in this humans-as-mathematically-valued-cogs evaluation is Carlton.
Why are money suppliers so rare? Simple: capital is attracted to capital.
This pretty much rigs it for the rich. They will always be rare because of their compulsion to hoard control over money and the laws that enable them ensure it.
Your homework for tonight will be to, first: castigate yourself for your bullshit response; and second: write a 5,000 word essay examining the correlations between this kind of capital theory and the theory of general relativity.
The fun begins at 8.
Well, across the entire suck-ass equal-opportunity-whore-both-take-money-from-tobacco-companies-2 party system, one candidate stands way above the rest, in my view.
That man’s name, is,
Joe Biden.
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