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by toomanybeersies 3450 days ago
A lot of that is due to the fact that most businesses use Windows almost exclusively.

Even in the tech world, outside of startups and hipster tech companies, there are a lot of developers using Windows (i.e. the vast majority of .NET developers).

I'm not sure what you mean by Apple failing to make inroads outside of the USA as well. They've made inroads all over the western world.

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Also according to the Android team on the Android Developers Backstage podcast, the majority of Android Studio installations are on Windows.
Makes sense. People on OSX are probably investing in Xcode, which leaves the majority user share on Windows and in second place, Linux.
Have you actually seen the numbers in the article?

MacOS has about 1% market share worldwide.

1% market share worldwide. I was just recently in Vietnam, unsurprisingly I didn't see a single Apple computer, and most of the computers were running Windows XP.

Apple has around 10% [0] of the market for laptop sales (most consumer computers are now laptops, I don't know any non-enthusiasts who have bought a PC in the last 5 years).

Now, factor in that those sales figures include less developed countries as well as developed countries, and you're probably look at at a decent margin about 10% of personal computer sales for home use as Apple products.

[0]: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-2015-notebook-m...