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Originally Posted by guyanonymous
Sorry I wasn't more clear. I've heard figures from 2-5% representing the proprotion of new computer purchases that are Mac products.
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In some sectors like the $1000+ computers sold Apple ownws 90% market share. It's the tool of choice for most professional music producers/photographers/film guys/artists. That's simply because the OS is fast and stable and there is barely any maintenance.
OS X is Darwin, a variant of UNIX which comes from BSD/NeXTSTEP and others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_...ting_system%29
It's the advantage OS X has over windows machines, tried and tested permissions systems, huge open source community fixing bugs and creating tools which Apple can easily slot into OS X. Microsoft have to develop most things themselves (or 'borrow' them from other companies). That's why Windows 7 is pretty much the same OS as Windows XP, just with a much nicer interface. As much as I enjoy Windows 7 (200% better than vista), I wish they would get rid of the registry and move to a better disk system!
As for the google tablet, put simply I think it's the future of PCs. The internet will get so fast in 20 years we will be using small devices to interface with machines located in other locations. Using tools like Google apps is a small glimpse into that - the Apps are on the network, we just use an interface to interact. We won't need an 'OS' they will just be slightly different interfaces that log into remote computers.
I just want to know where Microsoft is in this - they have that $20'000 table device, but Google and Apple seem to be leaping ahead in this area.