Re: Mac market share STAGNANT about TEN YEARS [was Re: Global Computer Market quarter by quarter]

In article <180520081556395355%mitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Mitch <mitch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article
> <aa1c0f6d-67f0-4f74-acf8-8cbc1a026faa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Edwin <thorne25@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > 
> > "For 1999, Apple ranked eighth in terms of worldwide PC ****pments,
> > with 3.4 percent, up from 3.3 percent the previous year. "
> > 
> >
http://www.news.com/Apple-beats-expectations,-splits-stock/2100-1001_3-23949
> > 9.html
> 
> Good GOD, Edwin, don't you EVER look at the DATE?
> 
> > For 1999, Apple ranked eighth in terms of worldwide PC ****pments, with
> > 3.4 percent, up from 3.3 percent the previous year.
> The articles compares 1999 to 2000 !!!!
> 
> 
> In other words, in ONE YEAR, there was an increase from 3.3 to 3.4
> percent. Nearly 7 years ago.
> Hardly says anything against Apple today, does it?
> 
> Do you have any critical data from the last four or five years?
> Something that people might think is RELEVANT?

Mitch, he did have pertinent data from the last year, and he was posting 
it repeatedly for a couple of days. Until he realized that it showed 
that Apple's market share had increased 33% in the last year. It was at 
that point that he moved the goalposts and started comparing 2008 with 
1999.

-- 
Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI