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.
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No one that participates in the system is above that system.
Effword
I have a better idea. Read both Walter Isaacson’s “Einstein” and Thomas Sowell’s “Basic Economics”.
Let me give you a small example, as digested by my talent as a simpleton.
You have $100.00 dollars to last you and your family through the week. You need gas, food, and a few items to get you till payday.
You go to the self serve gas station to save on the gas, thereby maximizing your buying power. You then go to the farmers market to get some fresh vegetables, and stop by a supermarket to get some hamburger meat that is on sale. While you are there, to save time, you pick up some soap and toothpaste.
Now, according to your analogy, only on a smaller scale, you have just cheated several people out of their livelihood, just to line your greedy pocket.
What about the kid working for less than minimum wage at the service station? The butcher, who owns his own shop? The dry goods store, a staple of the community for years? HOW CAN YOU BE SO SELFISH?????
You just spent more money than most of the people in the world get in a month, you rich, arrogant, heartless, greedy self serving bastard! And all just because YOU want to feed YOUR family and have a way to go to work. What did you give to the poor? Why do you, and you alone, have domain over the money you “blow”?
The thing is, effword, that the term “rich” is relative to its surrounding. The more you make, the less time it takes for OTHERS to decide how you should spend it. I hope you have seen the light….And if this doesn’t apply to you as your theory applies to larger bodies, then you have proven that there is no chance for a unified field theory!
@C1
I nominate your place for the party. Ampar is bringing the hookers. What can I bring?
Fiscal and religious conservative. Unix programer, Newton programer. Mac user since 1988. Mac’s have the better OS. Just wish there were more professional finance/stock trader programs – still have to use Parallels/XP for my trading platform.
Conservative for life. 3 iPods, iPhone, iBook, Powerbook, Airport Extreme, Apple tv. It’s just that conservatives dont walk around bragging about what we have.
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.
I earn my money and I spend it. I choose how much and where it goes. I reward different corporations (or non-corporations, mind you) based on what I perceive to be the best value. I also choose my charities, which is much more compassionate than inefficient, wasteful and anonymous government welfare/subsidy programs.
“Profit” is not a dirty word.
p.s. This topic is still boring. (unsubscribed from thread; email me if you really feel the need)
I guess if someone really does feel the need my email is public1@hazmatt.net. I forgot that, with this new MDN registration thing my name isn’t an email link anymore.
Have fun with the politics everyone!
Grew up conservative, nevertheless I was bright and bought my first Mac in Feb 1984 (intimation of hidden future intelligence). Went off to one of the most conservative colleges in the country- but I studied philosophy and learned how to think, studied sociology and learned how our society/culture grew in the past and how it acts now, and studied political science . . . and got sick to my stomach of our two party system. I HATE both parties, but I hate the left 1 % less. That’s how education made me a democrat.
The only thing I can say is that there are Americans,and then there are Democrats.
[I HATE both parties, but I hate the left 1 % less.]
Brilliant.
FWIW, I hate Windows 99% more.
I take it back Ampar… it just might make 5 pages after all. Especially if we post pics of the party at C1’s place.
This is my happening, and it freaks me out!!!
Democrats and Macs in the same sentence make me want to hurl! There can be no greater opposites! And, in this case, opposites do NOT attract!
I don’t think either Democrat-Republican rivalry or pictures of ChrissyOne’s party will get Ampar his five pages.
We need some more provocation. How about gun control? Are Mac users more likely to own hand guns?
And incidentally Ampar, last time Buster, TowerTone, et al. wasted away waiting for you on page 7.
I know I shouldn’t get involved and that only a fool takes up a fool’s argument.
Democrats and Macs in the same sentence make me want to hurl! There can be no greater opposites!
And yet the company is run by an avowed Democrat and nearly died when he wasn’t around. And it also has a prominent Democrat (sadly retired from full-time politics) on the board.
You must be really conflicted every time you boot up.
Here’s a survey that’s worth doing: what percentage of the people who develop the Macintosh (both hardware and software) vote Dem? If it’s more than 55%, will iMaki go and use Windows because it offends his/her personal sensibilities?
Probably not, because not even a Republican can be that stupid. Surely.
“And incidentally Ampar, last time Buster, TowerTone, et al. wasted away waiting for you on page 7.”
I find that hard to believe. Those guys are huge.
You have $100.00 dollars to last you and your family through the week.
You can’t so easily dismiss the scale. The scale is everything. Your paltry $100 example is nothing in the scope of money. Spending $100 around several retail outlets is not supplying capital. If an atomic unit of this system is a billion dollars, your $100 doesn’t ever come into consideration except as some part of a larger probability field. But I didn’t want to get into analogies to quantum physics or some phantom unified field theory. The homework was related to general relativity. Now get to work or I’ll fail you.
Now, according to your analogy, only on a smaller scale, you have just cheated several people out of their livelihood, just to line your greedy pocket.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to get at here. Nowhere in the above example do I imply that Carlton is cheating anyone of their livelihoods. It also doesn’t make sense that my small contribution to the revenue of a supermarket would somehow represent some repression of livelihood since such revenue is directly related to it.
the term “rich” is relative to its surrounding.
Seriously, this is just coy bullshit. I’m not talking about indoor plumbing and plasma teevees as representations of wealth. I’m also not concerned with “what is rich.” I’m talking about the flow of capital and its relationship to the justifications behind such petty and childish assertions as “No! Mine! Whaaa!”
“Profit” is not a dirty word.
I never said it was. Of course, every major religion has, but that’s neither here nor there.
I also think it’s quaint how you think you choose much of anything. And then call remitting what you owe a “reward.” That’s so cute.
Yer a good friend, Ampar. I love partying with you, man!
Well, lookee here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/science/04obchim.html?ref=science
Seems like there’s hope for TowerTone after all.
And for those other Republican monkeys as well.
Another interesting fact, which many Americans will deny, is that more than any other population, Americans trust and believe the propaganda their governments spew out. In no other country do the majority of people believe the propaganda given to them. In the USA, however, people lap it up and ask for more.
In no other country would a government be able to invade a country on such false premises, and then change the premises in mid-flight, change the facts to support the premise, and have the people still rally around them in support, believing their re-rationalisations. Yet this is exactly what happened in the USA with their invasion of Iraq. Only Americans would stoop to such gullibility and take every everything their government (and their propaganda outlets such as Fox News) proclaims at face value.
I’m guessing it’s because “critical thought” in American has been taught to mean two opposing positions, rather than serious analysis.
The USA is a leader in the world for one reason only: it has a monopoly on violence. It kills whomever it wants to kill, whenever, and will not heed any opposition. I will be happy when your army finally gets exhausted and your country finally goes into the toilet at the end of your stupid war, and other more developed and rational populations can begin to lead the world, without violence.
“it has a monopoly on violence”
Pitch an idea to Steve Ballmer and you might rethink that statement.
“Seems like there’s hope for TowerTone after all.”
Yes, and it floats. Who knew Forest Whitaker could direct?
“Americans trust and believe the propaganda their governments spew out”
Very true. And they really hate to be confronted with this fact. America has become a country of sheep locked in an eternal game of good-cop, bad-cop. Petty politics is the new blood sport, designed to pacify an intellectually bankrupt audience and distract attention from those who actually hold and exercise power, while creating the army of cheer-leaders and attack dogs, ready to fight to the death for a red or blue vote.
@Ampar
What a stupid response. Are you so glib about your country’s vicious and violent practices around the world, its abuse of power, its corruption and psychopathic behaviour because you’re ignorant or because you just don’t have to care? I imagine it’s a bit of both.
It sure is odd, Frank, that you don’t have a registered name.
Or more likely, that you don’t use it.
It would be less of a surprise than you think, to “come out”.
So shed your alter ego, and let everyone know who they are dealing with.