Comments on: Mac Market Share Around the World: USA 15%, Canada 14%, Australia 14%, and more

By: rocky

rocky — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:46:01 +0000

Macs in India???? My foot .. we hardly get 1Mbps of broadband bandwidth to the maximum even the ISPs providing it are total ****. How you’re ever gonna download huge software updates and stuff without a high speed broadband connection of at least 2Mbps???

By: Damien Golding

Damien Golding — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:59:06 +0000

Interesting article. I am totally new to Apple products, and am trying to learn more about them.
I work for a software company, and would like to know more about the languages of countries that use Mac products.

From the data in this article, it seems that English based countries are dominant, do you think this is the case?

Are there any other languages that are important?

Thanks

By: Jimmy Carl Black

Jimmy Carl Black — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:57:24 +0000

What I would like to see is the breakdown of personal/home use of computers. The high market share of PC’s is still skewed by the fact that they are overwhelmingly purchased by offices for workers. If you take out corporate sales and look only at personal sales, I would imagine the Mac share would be much, much higher.

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By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:06:55 +0000

Why? Breaking it down globally on a country-by-country basis is hardly the same as doing it on a state-by-state basis! The difference between countries within continents is far greater than between states in the same country.

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Even Geniuses Can Get Bad Software — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:23:06 +0000

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Mac and Malaysia « Absolutely Inane… — Sat, 14 May 2011 01:07:25 +0000

[...] my prediction. Although I did not find any data in relation to Malaysia, I did find one that had Mac penetration rates for our southern neighbor – Singapore. If Singapore, the country with the world’s 3rd highest smartphone penetration rate [...]

By: dinadana

dinadana — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:49:04 +0000

If only i saw this report a year ago – i made a repport at the university about Apple market penetration.

By: clasqm

clasqm — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:59:58 +0000

Africa beats South America? Incredible.

Apple is very selective in how it supports users in different countries. Here in South Africa, for example, we get
- NO music downloads in iTunes
- NO movies and TV shows in iTunes
- NO ebooks in iTunes, except a few free classics that you can get from Project Gutenberg anyway.
- NO games section in ANY of the three app stores.

If you are going to sell a device based on the ecosystem, then shouldn’t you ensure that the ecosystem is actually in place?

Gotta go now. Have a ripped-from-dvd movie to watch on the AppleTV.

By: Olov

Olov — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:35:58 +0000

@Jonas: Where did you gather that info? I’d add a few points on the stats, considering a fair amount of web visits with a Mac is done in Windows via Bootcamp or Parallels. Me and many of my friends are regularly gaming in Windows, and I tend to start and end these gaming sessions with a bit of surfing in Chrome for Windows. Might not count for tons of visits, but still a fair number.

By: John

John — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:19:08 +0000

Then, what is the total number of computers having Mac OS X? Or I want to get the total number of PCs in the world otherwise.(From this I can calculate it.)

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:17:43 +0000

What you said about India isn’t totally true, especially as time passes. Here in Delhi, as well as in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, there is a growing middle and upper middle class. I see Apple products everywhere (iPhone, iPad). And with certified apple retailers here in India, the market share of macs will increase dramatically. Although internet cafes are popular, high speed internet and broadband internet is huge here, especially in metro areas. Also with more men and women going into IT and computer based careers, there will most likely be more macs in the future.

By: Carter

Carter — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:36:26 +0000

Mac market share in major cities worldwide are higher than these numbers reflect. I would be interested to see that data for NYC and SFC.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:37:07 +0000

This stat is rubbish. It only show data collected from websites that people with iOS or Mac OS has visited. Half the numbers would be more correct concerning actually owned Mac computers in my oppinion.