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- From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
- Subject: Re: MAC percentage of the Market
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 12:44:09 GMT
- Re: Does anyone have a cite (something I can quote from) about what the MAC
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- percentage of the Micro-Computer Market is?
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- NBC National evening news on May 12th said that 1 out of 5 Macintoshes in
- business workplace versus IBM clones.
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- Many industry folks and Mitch Kapor said their were 60 million total
- perosnal business related computers (no ataris, commodores, apple II's
- etc.) in late 1991 and of those then industry claimed 6 million Macs.
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- One year later 2 million Macs were sold ( a twelve month period spanning
- Merch to March? bringing the total still functioning and existing Macs to
- about 10 million or so, but the IBM clones sufferred terrible losses in
- numbers due to "trashing" computers (gutting old 8088 and 80286 for parts,
- or writing off to charities and schools, etc.) This is because many many
- people in the last two years bought new IBM clones but no functional use
- was made of their ols mother boards in many cases.
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- I read in MacWeek and PCWeek (vague recollection) that 1 out of every 5
- (yes 1/5) of every newly purchased personal computer bound fgor a business
- desk IS A MACINTOSH!!!! Wow! Astonishing number, but then again I know
- some firms with over a Hundred Macs and have corporate bans on IBM clone
- purchases so its not hard to imagine those figures nowadays.
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- Conservatives place Mac to functioning PC Clone ration at 1:8 ratio, I now
- cautionsly place the ratio at 1:7.
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- Apple has sold more computers (in dollar value) than IBM has for over 3
- straight years, but then again who buys IBM equipment when looking for "PC
- generic clones"
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- The imagewriter II is the most "popular" (total units) printer ever sold
- in history from any company.
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- Localktalk wiring connects far more people on networks than all other
- networking technologies in the world combined. (was true in 1988, probably
- still true)
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- Apple sold over 50,000 Mac 128's before Feb 1984, but in the last three
- years only a little over 100,000 NeXT computers total have been sold.
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- Diclaimer: most of these lies and statistics were just whipped up from my
- vague memories of info in computer magazines and are probably loosely
- accurate.
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- Bill Williams
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