Re: The Apple II Now and Forever

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <mattd-071292115413@city-lights.apple.com> mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage) writes:

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>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. Noone
belives it. It's an upper bound.
 
Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
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