Re: The Apple II Now and Forever

[hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)]

Matt Deatherage writes
> In article <ByvBJE.2wB@news.iastate.edu>, hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu
> (Harold Byron Bouma) wrote:
> > 
> > So while now Apple has nearly  
> > killed off the II, it has come at a big price, they lost over 6% of the
> > market.
> 
> Current market share figures shows Apple has about 15% of the worldwide PC
> market.  Trends show that Apple's market share did go down in the past few
> years, but it has completely recovered and is still growing.
> 

	Hmmm. Thats odd. This year Apple's unit sales only amounted to 9.8% of  
the total units sold (source : the article commenting on Apple passing up IBM  
in unit sales) I haven't seen any other information come around to show that  
Apple has had a larger share in the sales during the last 6 years. Sure Apple  
had a higher precentage back in the early 80's but more machines are being sold  
now than back then.

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