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Ratio of PCs sold over Macs drops to 1985 levels


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Can (do) you believe that ?

Ratio of PCs sold over Macs drops to 1985 levels - at least this is what an analyst from Asymco claims (looking only at computers sales) :

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The ratio was about 20 to 1 in 1985 following the 1984 launch of the first Mac.

From there, the ratio went through some ups and downs for a good 10 years until around 1996, when it moved up to 15 to 1 and then started to rise every year. PCs continued to enjoy a huge and growing demand over Macs through the next several years as the ratio hit a high of around 55 to 1 in 2004.

But then the gap started to narrow. From a ratio of less than 45 to one in 2005, the gap continued to drop each year until reaching a low of around 20 to 1 last year, as narrow as it was in 1985.

The original article here : http://news.cnet.com...col;latestPosts

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Another crappy news story from cnet, afterall, they are being paid heavily by Apple (not joking, seriously).

This sums it all:

They shot up 26% from the NOTHING they had previously. Their OS still about 5% PC market share. Don't make it sound so Herculean.

Even Vista has more marketshare than MacOS. :lol:

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AlienForce1

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I`m not believing this either . The article was writed in the Apple category :

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Psycho-gHo

The source is a Horace Dediu -- writer of a blog and Mac Apps -- not somebody I would trust for factual information.

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