Re: The Apple II Now and Forever

[cmcurtin@bluemoon.use.com (Matthew Curtin)]

philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough) writes:

> In article <mattd-071292115413@city-lights.apple.com> mattd@apple.com (Matt D
> 
> [ ]
> >
> >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.
> 
> I beg your pardon? This is really an unfounded answer to an ill-defined
> question. I have dozens of these "surveys" sitting around which I hand out
> as assignments related to properly designing an experiment, survey, etc...
> There are, as I'm sure you are aware, many factors not taken into account
> in survey x. Type of channel, definition of "micro", length of time in use,
> unit versus dollar value of shipments, period looked at, etc...
>  
> Nevertheless, the 15% figure is truly one which I have only rarely seen. Noon
> belives it. It's an upper bound.

~15% is the most common figure I hear from industry (computer industry, 
not "Apple" or "PC" industries).


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