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by CaptainZapp 1597 days ago
> Apple controls 50+% of American computing.

Do you have a source for this assertion?

That Apple controls more than 50% of American computing seems, well, a bit on the high side.
1 comments
cehrlich 1597 days ago
If you measure it by browser market share, which is obviously not a flawless metric but the best one I can think of, Apple controls 37%.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-s...

OS market share is higher than that as some Mac users will use Chrome or Firefox, but no users of other platforms use Safari.

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9935c101ab17a66 1596 days ago
So, by a metric you yourself admit is flawed (and I assume it is flawed, I couldn't find any methodology from statcounter), the initial claims were off by 15%, which is a huge mistake and significantly weakens any 'monopoly' argument.

> OS market share is higher than that as some Mac users will use Chrome or Firefox, but no users of other platforms use Safari.

No, and the source you initially provide show this not to be the case: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-states...

OS marketshare is actually lower than browser marketshare. Mac users using Chrome or Firefox have nothing to do with it, since the heuristic statcounter relies on, the User Agent, contains clear information about which OS is being used.

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CaptainZapp 1597 days ago
Thanks.

50% still seems a bit excessive, but no question that Apple is very widely used.

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