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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I'm afraid your information is out of date.
Mac is nearly 1/10 of total market, and over 1/9 of Windows.
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Yep, you're right, I listed old data. Still a very small marketshare but has grown some since I bought my daughter her the seemingly mandatory "MacBook to go to college" a couple years ago.
Best of luck with Mac owners getting all the same access that PC users have. But I'll rate your odds right up there with Kindle owners getting folders.
Wish it were easier to level the playing field on software and hardware interfaces, but it always comes down to a $ decision unless an angry Mac owner ports the software pro bono. And while it remains a $ decision, the 10% marketshare is probably still well shy of the breakeven point for many developers. But tools improve and I think that's the best hope for Mac owners gaining equitable access to PC software. Look at what VMware and such has done.
And for the record, I have been a Mac owner over the years (five Macs between 1989 and now) and I like them. But every time I've had Macs as my only machine, I've pissed and moaned about having to pay more to get less access and lesser capability (chip speed, hard drive size, plug and play, etc.). So eventually I've abandoned Macs altogether...except for letting my daughter enjoy her fling with a Mac.
And this is so off-topic from this threads's purpose that I'm sure the thread owner should deduct some karma from my account.