[imajoredinecon]

You estimate how many people use computers and how many people use computers you make. When you subtract the two, you get how many people use computers that your competitors make.

Not every “internal metric” is something you can measure directly.

[alpaca128]

Most active Linux PCs were made by Windows PC manufacturers.

[marginalia_nu]

If that is how sketchy the data they are using to make decisions is, that would explain a lot about their decisions.