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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utgpu!utstat!philip
- From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: Apple's Education sales & stats
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.010939.3525@utstat.uucp>
- Keywords: some interesting stats
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1992Aug27.141552.9752@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:09:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.141552.9752@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo) writes:
- >These are some stats about Apple's Education sales: (ripped w/o
- >permission from Macweek)
- >
- >Apple, IBM Corp. and Tandy Corp. computers received good grades from
- >the nation's K-12 public schools for the 1992-1992 school year. The
- >three companies accounted for 82% of an estimated 3 million personal
- >computers purchased, according to Quality Education Data Inc., of Denver.
- >
- >
- > Installed Market Share
- > Base Percentage
- >
- >Apple (total)................ 1,503,639 65.6
- > Apple II................... 1,326,528 57.8
- > Apple II GS................ 78,353 3.4
- > Macintosh.................. 99,758 4.4
- >IBM Corp..................... 324,214 17.0
- >Tandy Corp................... 185,782 7.2
- >Commodore International...... 87,982 3.8
-
- Hmm...these statistics are very odd. Do theyrefer to the number of computers
- sold in the 91/92 school year? Just to be clear here, were there 3 million
- computers sold to schools in the US during 91/92, and only 7.8% used the
- Finder (GS/Mac)? I find this just unbelievable.
-
- If these figures are to be believed, it would appear that schools are not
- moving to the Finder but to PC's. This is most discouraging.
-
- In any case could you elaborate a bit more on these numbers? For instance,
- do Commodore sales reflect mainly sales of the Amiga, C64, PC clones, etc...?
-
- [ ]
-
- Philip McDunnough
- University of Toronto
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-