@Jiggly Puff Must Die:

Granted, I should have specified the demographics more. I was not talking about server market share, indeed. I was also not talking about business-droid market share, companies that are locked in to a Microsoft only world and can’t budge, let alone are run by IT dweebs that are just that, IT dweebs, which have no skills other than the ablity to pay for and get a MCSE of sorts and thus move up to the corporate world not only themselves but their lack of skills and infest all business with lock-in solutions by Microsoft. Microsoft RULES there.
The demographic I was talking about were the home users, the consumers, since we were talking about consumer products. And in the home/consumer world it’s certainly my belief, which might be wrong, very much like yours could be, that the Mac has gained tremendous ground. Let me be more specific: I’m not talking about the home users with computers from 10 years ago, I’m talking about newer machines. I don’t know about you, but everyone around me is buying Macs, but certainly I didn’t base the numbers off of just that, but also from web statistics on various sites I have access to. Of course that can also be ‘biased’ in the sense that a Mac-only site won’t have many IE’s hitting it. I tried to take that into account. Anyways, like you said, it’s just opinion, these metrics are inevitably hard to measure even for professional accounting institutions, but don’t be surprised when the world turns all “white” and “brushed metal” on you

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You can believe this all you want, but it doesn’t make it true. I’ll accept that the Mac segment is larger than 1%, but it has a good ways to go if it wants to hit 10% in anything beyond college students (which are not representative of the whole market, only a small segment of it).

In the business world, Macs have no hold. In the academic world, Macs have no hold, except where they’ve provided computers for free to k12 schools. In the server world…well, you get the idea.

My point: It’s not cost-effective to code for Macs unless you’re using a language that is cross-platform to begin with, like Java pr .Net/Mono.

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