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11/02/09
"Overall, Windows OS's took 92.52 per cent of the market for October, with the Mac taking 5.27 per cent, and Linux on 0.96 per cent."
These figures are from internet capable machines. Arguably, the numbers would skew more towards Windows if non-internet capable machines were added to the mix. Interestingly but not surprisingly, the iPhone has as much penetration as Linux at almost 1% of the market.
Source: [www.channelregister.co.uk]
11/01/09
It seems that the comments get wiped clean now - especially when they are negatively slanted towards a giz article. #macvspc
11/01/09
Gawkers commenting system is bugged in regards to older comments currently. It's the same on Kotaku. Annoying as hell because I can't check my replies. #macvspc
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Each system had its own unique hardware and OS. When IBM licensed their technology to other hardware manufacturers, the PC-compatibles, or clones, proliferated, which helped the PC class of computers to overtake the rest of the field, as people could buy or build their own PC-compatible systems for much less money than the competing systems, which required you to buy everything, from the computer itself, to all the peripherals, from the same brand (Apple, Atari, Tandy, Commodore, etc.).
What remains is the legacy of the old IBM PC, and it is this style of computer that we continue to mean when we say PC, even though new Apple Macs use the Intel architecture instead of Motorola, and so now the only real distinction comes from the OS...so Windows (and Linux to some extent) vs. OS X. #macvspc
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11/01/09
I am pretty sure that Macs were always known as PCs. It is just their marketing campaign has infected our language, making us think that the Mac is more than just a PC. #macvspc
10/30/09
Come on. Speak up. I'm dying to know. #macvspc
10/30/09
Asking readers which OS they use for reading Gizmodo is assinine when Gizmodo could actually get the stats themselves from their server with a tiny script.
What assclowns... #macvspc
10/30/09
Gizmodo is to the National Enquirer of websites as you are to the Rush Limbaugh of commentary.
"Asking readers which OS they use for reading Gizmodo is assinine"
Reading. Is. Fundamental.
Gizmodo did not ask that poll question. The actual poll question is,
"Do You Use a Mac Or a PC As Your Personal Home Computer?"
A script on the Giz server would not reveal this answer, as many people read Gizmodo at work. Given the penetration of PCs in the workplace, the results of such a script would likely demonstrate a heavy PC-bias.
Hey, waddaya know, just like the script results Gizmodo published!
Instead, they asked a question to which they couldn't deduce the answer from a script.
You go, squishyalt. #macvspc
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I was going to vote for PC, since that's what I'm using, but you see, the Left 4 Dead demo was just released.
Now since we know this only affects PC users (Mac users are much too snobby to boot into windows, even to play games), then we must account for the readers who were too busy to vote.
So I think there is an error with the data.
(of course, in a more legitimate statistical note, there is most likely (as in any online poll) a responder bias. ) #macvspc
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IMPOSSIBLE! #macvspc
10/30/09
Does it really frigging matter what hardware you use, so long as you come to Giz? Do my ad dollars mean less or more that I am PC? HOW you get here is less important than actually getting here. #macvspc
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For @maven2k: Awww, I love you guys too. xo #macvspc
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First, let's give it the reality test - recent STATISTICALLY VALID polls show that Macs are in 12% of households, but that only 2% of those households ONLY have a Mac. 98% of those households also have a PC in the house. Thus, less than 1% of households in America ONLY have a Mac.
So Giz readers defy that by 1.5 orders of magnitude? Please. That isn't even the case for readers of the Apple forums on Apple's own website.
Hmm? So how could a self-selecting poll with almost no technical control get biased? Gosh, how indeed?
Okay, we already know it's garbage...but let's play along. Look at the questions...and consider these issues:
1) The story title is "More Giz Readers Own Macs Than PCs" yet the question relates to what people USE...not OWN. The question also focuses on personal use (as opposed to business use...small business, SOHO, and otherwise)...yet the story headline makes no such qualification.
2) The valid responses in no way accommodate people who use more than one type of personal computer. There is no option for the person who uses a Mac 60% of the time, but also spends 40% of their time gaming on a PC. Given that 98% of Mac users also have a PC in their house...that is a MAJOR flaw here.
3) Linux is an option...yet there is only one aggregate option for "I own a Mac and a PC"...and no such aggregate options for Linux.
4) Speaking of that aggregate response option, it mentions OWN...not USE. The question states USE while the response and the headline say OWN. JC on a pony. Given that 98% of Mac users own both, one would assume that the small minority of valid (not ballot-stuffed) respondents who chose just the Mac option chose the wrong response based on the poorly worded questions.
5) What the hell is a Mac...and what is a PC? What about folks who use boot camp...and can only have a Mac because they have a PC as well? Which option should they have selected? Windows will run on a Mac...and with some software from a range of sources, the Mac OS will run on a "PC".
Seriously, even their own user-agent tracking graph pretty much states "this poll and the associated story are garbage"...yet they wrote it anyway...with a big headline...and that headline will be scanned by ten times more folks than people who actually read the associated story.
When you are being that reckless, how about at least posting a headline that does something good - e.g., SCIENCE SHOWS THAT PEOPLE WHO DONATE TO CHARITY LIVE 20 YEARS LONGER #macvspc
10/30/09
@ScubaSteve: #macvspc
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Of course. #macvspc
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What is interesting is the web browsing poll that shows 75% of your visitors are Windows users. You assume the difference there is because people are on their "work" computer, and that seems like a strong part of the reason. Another possibility is Mac users who are running in Windows on their machine. A less likely but nevertheless possible answer is that the dual hardware individuals are using their Windows machines more often. #macvspc