Originally posted by cateto I just posted a longer article in my blog, explaining my point in detail. Maybe you are interested.
i read your blog, intresting point of view.
i would like to point out however that the point of comparison is flawed.
APPLE, sells physical goods AND software. Very expensive and overpriced goods mind you, which, through either luck or good marketing have (i'm quite certain) atleast 50% of its customers attracted by the status symbol more than anything.
as i have mentioned in many other threads, parts for parts, its cheaper to build a PC than an Apple. (the pickle with this one is that not everyone knows how to build computers)
you cannot compare microsfot to apple
Microsoft is not in the market for overpriced flashy toys
if you want to make a good comparison, you would have to include the profits and market share of Dell, HP, MDG, Lenovo and every single other independant retailer, big or small, yes, even the "Ping's Comptuers" down by the laundromat, that puts PC's together and loads them up with windows.
what WOULD be an intresting statistic is if you can dig up how many Mac OS's have been sold/shipped to final consumers between January 1st and now, vs Windows.
and even then, Some companies run on XP and will continue to do so, while certain "Mac nuts" upgrade very 2-3 months.
so you have a company with 20 people who run on one instance of XP for 10 years, vs 1 guy that updates his computer 4 times a year for 10 years
as you can see the resulting conclusions would be rather inconclusive