What a load of feces. I’m a consultant and see Windows users buying Macs like crazy nowadays. At least 50% of my business is Windows users switching to Macintosh.

This is bogus just like the supposed virsuses and WiFi crack. Another feeble attempt at attacking Apple while they’re kicking ass and taking names…
 

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I remember one study using website visitor statistics showing how low Mac penetration is, and when people started looking at which websites were represented in the study, it was discovered that a majority of them were targeted at PC users.

Now that Apple's PowerPC -to- Intel transition is pretty much wrapped up it'll be interesting to see over the next few years how things shake out.
 

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How about the fact that many Mac users have Safari set to display a fake user agent? In my case (as I'm sure it would be for many otherS) I've got Safari set to pretend to be 'Windows MSIE 6' in order to be allowed to visit sites that claim not to work with other browsers (though they often do) and lock them out. Are Net Applications able to work around this or is it skewing their numbers?
 

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Gartner has released preliminary market share numbers for 3Q 2006 (calendar, Apple's financial 4Q) which show Apple seeing substantial industry growth at 1.5%. Apple now ships 6.1% of all U.S. "PCs", 4th in the industry behind Gateway (6.4%), HP (23%), and Dell (32.1%). Apple did not place in the top-5 in worldwide PC shipments, so that data was not available.
 

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