Post by sms<snip>
Post by Thomas E.Agreed, we need another year to say it's a trend. However, the headline is that Mac sales fell more than the overall market, share dropped. The Statistica Mac data do not account for overall market size.
What matters is profit, not market share. Apple has never been that
interested in expanding the market share of Macs.
With the move to their own silicon, Apple wrote off a lot of users that
used to be able to dual-boot MacOS and Windows and that required Windows
because the applications that they used have no MacOS version, or a
limited functionality MacOS version. The applications I see like this
the most are Solidworks, Cadence, Autocad (Mac version available but
limited functionality), and Altium. We also use Statistica which is
Windows-only. Look at the recommendations for computers that
universities publish. If you're in a technical field they will
inevitably tell you not to buy a Mac. This is not good for Apple in
terms of getting users into the Apple ecosystem.
No doubt Apple was aware that the move to their own silicon would have
side effects and determined that the cost savings of moving away from
x86, as well as other benefits like thermals and power consumption,
outweighed the lost market share.
Macs are great for some things, but if you're in a technical,
scientific, programming, data analysis, medical, or research field then
you can't really get away from Windows.
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