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.
DeltaNick…
Please, let’s not get into the things that Rush Limbaugh loves because that way lays madness. Or at least a substantial bill at the pharmacy.
Notice the one exception to the rule: Alaska.
Not only do we *sigh* vote Republican (and corrupt republicans at that) but we have a huge Mac usage.
I think no matter how we vote I see a LOT of friends with Macs because they work. People up here do what works. We don’t fart around for style or looks. We do what’s easy & nbest regardless of what it is.
Besides that there are schools everywhere using Macs.
Just my 2¢ from just south of the Arctic Circle.
“hey, where was Ampar during all this?”
Holy crap, nine pages? Nice ranting!
November, 8th 2006?
Not much going on then . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2006#2006_November_8
Wait a minute. Rummy stepped down the same day Vista went RTM? AHA! ! !
“I am a true fiscal and social conservative . . .”
But let’s not forget the fecal conservationists from Seychelles.
nothing to do with nothing
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2311958
Well well well…5 pages.
Color me wrong.
FIIIIIIIIVE pages Ampar.
Count them. Five.
What’s that red stuff all over the floor?
The problem is the “left – right” stereotypes of French governmental architecture. The true contrast is between the individual thinker & the group thinker: whether individuals are creators/owners of the state or the state creator/owner of individuals. That is; the individualist versus the statist. Hitler & Stalin were statists, Jefferson & Hamilton were individualists. Review the “Think Different” manifesto: Mac = individualist, Windows = statist.
One drifts into PC ownership: Mac users make a choice to compute “Different” What set of characteristics predominate in an individual are contextual. Ask Apple how they choose store placement. With rising share, they’re hardly clueless.
I’m a Proud Republican And A Mac User. GOD bless America!!!!
The problem is the “left – right” stereotypes of French governmental architecture. The true contrast is between the individual thinker & the group thinker: whether individuals are creators/owners of the state or the state creator/owner of individuals. That is; the individualist versus the statist. Hitler & Stalin were statists, Jefferson & Hamilton were individualists. Review the “Think Different” manifesto: Mac = individualist, Windows = statist.
One drifts into PC ownership: Mac users make a choice to compute “Different”
“Mac users make a choice to compute “Different””
These days with Intel hardware and Parallels, it’s not really that different.
Even Apple are pushing the idea that they’re a good choice for Vista in their latest Mac vs PC ads. Steve has embraced Wintel. It’s only a matter of time before Mac OS X is extinguished.
“Count them. Five.”
And somehow it’s just not as satisfying as I thought it would be.
“It’s only a matter of time before Mac OS X is extinguished.”
Everything is relative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
Independent. Mac user since 1987.
“Mac users make a choice to compute “Different””
These days with Intel hardware and Parallels, it’s not really that different.
Even Apple are pushing the idea that they’re a good choice for Vista in their latest Mac vs PC ads. Steve has embraced Wintel. It’s only a matter of time before Mac OS X is extinguished.
What a lot of WinDell propaganda bullshit.
Firstly, let’s kill off the meme that Macintosh on Intel is in any way a less valid Macintosh than “Mac on PPC” or “Mac on 68K”; at the end of the day, a CPU is nothing more than a highly miniaturised package of gates and transistors which no more defines the computing experience than my DVD player defines my movie collection.
“Mac on Intel” does everything that “Mac on PPC” did! Except – because Intel finally gave up the megahertz myth – it does it more quickly and more cheaply. And it also stays more up to date with the marketplace.
In a few weeks, I fully expect Apple to announce systems based on the Penryn family which means we’ll have experienced TWO separate Intel architectures (Yonah-DC [Core Duo] and Merom [Core2Duo]) and an enhanced process shrink (Penryn) in two years. Furthermore, we’ll see yet another architecture change (Nehalem) in the next 15-18 months.
Compare that to life at the mercy of IBM and Freescale; actually, don’t bother because there is no comparison.
The Macintosh experience is defined by the manner in which the (now commodotised) hardware components are integrated into the software environment – that’s why iSight works so well and why you can set up an AirPort link on a Mac that’s just come out of its box, as opposed to having to dick around with M$’ hopeless wireless network setup routines (is it WPA, is it WPA2, is it TKIP, do I care).
In this respect, M$ should be thrilled that Parallels and VMWare exist, because – between them – they achieve something that the physical PC industry has never managed to accomplish, namely the development of a stable, virtual reference platform on which Windows can, for want of a better word, run.
But let’s be clear: Parallels/VMware put Windows in its rightful place – it’s nothing more than a poorly engineered application environment that doesn’t deserve to be considered an operating system. It is a wart in the world of computing and warts – it should be remembered – are caused by viruses.
/These days with Intel hardware and Parallels, it’s not really that different.’
MCCFR take is spot on. Intel-PPC difference is unrelated for the most part and frankly many Mac users wouldn’t have a clue about what really is underneath the hood. As for Parallels, the advantage is to lure PC users to the Mac side where (and I have seen this soooooo often), they access Windows less and less with time.
Having Windows on your machine can be like a parent holding your hand as you tread into uncharted waters and are afraid. It gives you enough courage to make the jump. Once in,,,,wow…vive la difference!
To MCCFR:
Well said. Thanks.
“[Windows] is a wart in the world of computing and warts – it should be remembered – are caused by viruses.”
Great line! I need to put that on a shirt or a bumper sticker.
Buster…
Just one issue…
Having Windows on your machine can be like a parent holding your hand
Actually more like an abusive parent beating you with a baseball bat and sending you to bed without any supper, but I kind of understand where you’re coming from.
@MCCFR
Both analogies work lol
So, this is Frank. MDN has blocked me from posting comments. Good to see democracy and free speech are alive and well in the ol’ USA. What’s the matter, can’t handle a free discussion?
And you have the gall to think you’re free society. Get real, people, your freedoms are fading before your eyes, and not only do you not stop it, you like it. That’s the end folks, of the brave USofA.
I’m sure TowerTone and Ampar are twiddling their thumbs with glee, proving once and for all their hidden fascist tendencies. Oh, do you disagree, TowerTone? Do you Ampar?
The end of America, and its people LOVE it.
Hey Frank…you avoided my question. What country are you from that allows you to crap on America in comparison?
Frank:
Your arrogant pissing on my country has gone far enough
I’ve had it with you, putz. The America you insult is the same one that brings order and democracy to the rest of the world. In case you forgot, it’s the USA that rescued the rest of the world from tje nazis and the commies Maybe you think we should all be in some gulag. You don’t honor the freedom we gave you. Ungrateful turd.
and another thing you piece of turd scumsucker, if Macdailynews wants to cut you off,all the better for us! I say you don’t deserve to be here you worthless crap factory. I say we all BAN you and then we’ll all have some relief from stupidity. Good riddance.
Who’s with me? Anyone else who wants Frank banned?
To American:
I appreciate your anger at Frank’s comments.
However, I respect anyone’s right to express an opinion (disclaimer: MDN has the right to disagree since this is a privately owned forum).
I don’t think anyone should be banned but that’s my never humble opinion.
Frank presumes to know me and how I think. That is a bigger insult.
I seriously doubt he can understand this.
But, let them speak. It doesn’t hurt.
P.S. This is someone who was proud to be known as Twisted Mac Freak. Freedom of speech should be valued the most.
Ampar you speak very mature, and I can respect you for that. I don’t think that punk should have the right to disrespect us when it’s obvious he ought to be grateful. He just spits out arragant crude. Pissing on us. You think that ought to be defended? It’s not an opinion, it’s a bunch of pecker talk from a dipspit. People like that don’t deserve you defending them. Proud and free,noble are we. Hats off to you Ampar sir.