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For those of you who don't know who APK is, he's a rather completely insane person who registered on ars a few years back, tried to spam his worthless do-nothing utility shareware junk, got roundly thrashed, and then started lashing out at anyone he could get his hands on (at one point, he was convinced that I was MWNH, and he thought that I had "stolen" his software, that's an example of how loopy things got. And of course he registered as APK on OSY, got banned, registered again as APK1, got banned again, I emailed Road Runner (his current ISP) about his email abuse, and then things sort of stopped.

THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER, I get this in my mailbox:

From: APK

Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:06 AM
Subject: Remove this page from your forums due to myself being impersonated there, thank you... apk

http://www.pegasus3d.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=1&topic=10

I did not post that, & it's criminal impersonation, which carries legal implications.

(Thank you for your cooperation, and I am sure you do NOT want that kind of thing on your forums!)

Sincerely,

Alexander Peter Kowalski
apk

Okay, that is a nearly four year old forum post he's complaining about. And apparently he's forgotten the whole exchange where he was banned from OSY, and he's forgotten about how he thought I was MWNH, and so forth. So I decided to have a little fun with him. If he's complaining about someone "impersonating" him, that opens up a whole neat metaphysical area for jokes at his expense.

I reply back:

How do I know you're the real APK and not an impostor?

About half an hour later, he replies:

Check my email @ www.ntcompatible.com if you wish, I post there as AlecStaar.

(Thank-You!)

Sincerely,

Alexander Peter Kowalski
apk

So, clearly, it's the real APK. But is this any kind of proof of that? And where's the proof that the APK on OSY 1.0 wasn't the real APK? And who would care anyway?

So let's see if I can't have some fun here. I'll start out all polite:

Hello,

I have found this "AlecStaar" poster on www.ntcompatible.com that you are talking about, but I have two problems: 1) There is no email address listed so I have no way to correlate "AlecStaar" with apk4776239@hotmail.com, and 2) There is no proof that "AlecStaar" is in fact the real APK!

You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event!

Within 15 minutes came the reply:

Well, ask anybody there if you wish... That's easily done. Many of them know who I am, & also what my email is.

Perhaps, the best/easiest way to check that is to write the webmaster there:

Philipp@NTCompatible.com

He & I often correspond & can verify who I am & what my email is.

Thanks!

APK

P.S.=> Whatever the case may be, my attorney's being forwarded this information just so you are aware of that as well. He is on retainer each year, & I get my money's worth from him each year for said retainer... he is advising me to advise you of this, & also what this is about, etc. apk

Oh noes! He's got a virtual lawyer on virtual retainer! And he's advising me to advise me of this! What to do????

The only way to beat virtual lawyers is, of course, with virtual lawyers:

Well, the question then becomes, how do the fine people at www.ntcompatible.com know that you are the true APK? Perhaps your account history there has been an elaborate ruse, designed to build up a trust which you can then use to deceive people all over the web in order to get them to delete messages from the true APK! I've read up on stories of ident

"I think it's HILARIOUS to harass YOU online. Just you. Only you." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Friday March 30, @12:21AM (#18539431)

StarKruzr,

I looked you up @ slashdot, because of the lunacy you posted @ Jeremy Reimer's forums here about myself & yourself:

"Hi guys. I'm another Arsian who has managed to get entangled in APK's dumbassery" - StarKruzr Midshipman

You started it up with myself, everytime, & evidence of that is below - you kept it up here @ slashdot, after you did it at techpowerup.com forums, & lastly/lately @ WindowsITPro! Evidences of that are all over the web where you cannot edit it out or impersonate me, & they are below.

Same stuff I showed the police yesterday (and they told me I have a definite WIN vs. Jeremy Reimer & Jay Little on Aggravated Harassment AND Libel as well).

This URL (the same one Jeremy Reimer posted my families' home address in, & Evil_Merlin made threats vs. they in):

http://www.wowdailynews.com/pegasus/phpbb2/viewtop ic.php?t=4128&start=500&sid=837c7981b75f7ed3faaf3b da68f73b22

Listen starkruzr:

I never wanted any hassles with you, why are you trying to ruin your life over Reimer, when he is showing you he does not care WHO he takes down with him?

Heck, I did not even KNOW who you were, until you posted here bothering myself first (after you tried it @ techpowerup.com, noted below):

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=889 edb5f1ee4cd22eee33bc580b0e190&p=207262#post207262

And started up crap with me. I knew you were an arstechnica member though, and sure enough: You are, & I caught you in your lunacy, posting as others no less (what you say I do? You all do, yourselves, as your std. practice/modus operandi).

I don't understand you - I had nothing going with yourself, whatsoever! Don't you understand that nut Reimer is obsessed with myself (is he gay or something? I don't get it!)

After all, your fellow arstechnica friends Jeremy Reimer &/or Jay Little, not until they began pursuing me all over harassing myself, & libelling myself in edited photos & .mp3 files they sung (stolen from southpark - Reimer's trademark is a lack of originality) here:

http://www.pegasus3d.com/download/apk.jpg

http://pegasus3d.com/download/apksong2000+++.mp3

pegasus3d.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=1& topic=10

"Anyway the "APK" registered here is just an affectionate clone of the original. In fact I prefer him to the original." - Jeremy Reimer - March 25, 2005

& they many times harassing myself under "alternate guises" (as you had in your JTD/StarKruzr fiasco that got you caught @ techpowerup.com).

HONEST QUESTION:

"I think it's HILARIOUS to harass YOU online. Just you. Only you." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Friday March 30, @12:21AM (#18539431)

Don't you know, that your stating that, is only going to get you into trouble?

Why are you doing this to me? What had I EVER done to you?? I don't even KNOW you man! Why? Just because I have gotten the better of yourselves head-to-head, getting you to admit you are WRONG (as I did with Jay Little regarding what he said he was "an expert in", in Exchange Server (windowsitpro.com), & on Ramdisks (ntcompatible.com) & yourself lately here, on Windowsitpro.com, saying my points (only a couple you admit make sense, the portions on DLL's you noted I am correct on as well (read it, know it, drink it in & digest it for your own skillset - it is HOW IT IS, & how I state

"I think it's HILARIOUS to harass YOU online. Just you. Only you." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Friday March 30, @12:21AM (#18539431)

StarKruzr,

I looked you up @ slashdot, because of the lunacy you posted @ Jeremy Reimer's forums here about myself & yourself:

"Hi guys. I'm another Arsian who has managed to get entangled in APK's dumbassery" - StarKruzr Midshipman

You started it up with myself, everytime, & evidence of that is below - you kept it up here @ slashdot, after you did it at techpowerup.com forums, & lastly/lately @ WindowsITPro! Evidences of that are all over the web where you cannot edit it out or impersonate me, & they are below.

Same stuff I showed the police yesterday (and they told me I have a definite WIN vs. Jeremy Reimer & Jay Little on Aggravated Harassment AND Libel as well).

This URL (the same one Jeremy Reimer posted my families' home address in, & Evil_Merlin made threats vs. they in):

http://www.wowdailynews.com/pegasus/phpbb2/viewtop ic.php?t=4128&start=500&sid=837c7981b75f7ed3faaf3b da68f73b22

Listen starkruzr:

I never wanted any hassles with you, why are you trying to ruin your life over Reimer, when he is showing you he does not care WHO he takes down with him?

Heck, I did not even KNOW who you were, until you posted here bothering myself first (after you tried it @ techpowerup.com, noted below):

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?s=889 edb5f1ee4cd22eee33bc580b0e190&p=207262#post207262

And started up crap with me. I knew you were an arstechnica member though, and sure enough: You are, & I caught you in your lunacy, posting as others no less (what you say I do? You all do, yourselves, as your std. practice/modus operandi).

I don't understand you - I had nothing going with yourself, whatsoever! Don't you understand that nut Reimer is obsessed with myself (is he gay or something? I don't get it!)

After all, your fellow arstechnica friends Jeremy Reimer &/or Jay Little, not until they began pursuing me all over harassing myself, & libelling myself in edited photos & .mp3 files they sung (stolen from southpark - Reimer's trademark is a lack of originality) here:

http://www.pegasus3d.com/download/apk.jpg

http://pegasus3d.com/download/apksong2000+++.mp3

pegasus3d.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=1& topic=10

"Anyway the "APK" registered here is just an affectionate clone of the original. In fact I prefer him to the original." - Jeremy Reimer - March 25, 2005

& they many times harassing myself under "alternate guises" (as you had in your JTD/StarKruzr fiasco that got you caught @ techpowerup.com).

HONEST QUESTION:

"I think it's HILARIOUS to harass YOU online. Just you. Only you." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Friday March 30, @12:21AM (#18539431)

Don't you know, that your stating that, is only going to get you into trouble?

Why are you doing this to me? What had I EVER done to you?? I don't even KNOW you man! Why? Just because I have gotten the better of yourselves head-to-head, getting you to admit you are WRONG (as I did with Jay Little regarding what he said he was "an expert in", in Exchange Server (windowsitpro.com), & on Ramdisks (ntcompatible.com) & yourself lately here, on Windowsitpro.com, saying my points (only a couple you admit make sense, the portions on DLL's you noted I am correct on as well (read it, know it, drink it in & digest it for your own skillset - it is HOW IT IS, & how I state

As to starloser's honesty here? Take a peek:

The IP Address is: 76.208.2.84. The host name is:
adsl-76-208-2-84.dsl.sbndin.sbcglobal.net

"Also, I never said I was from Staten Island. You did. I never said I was the girl in that picture either, you did." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Thursday March 29, @06:16PM (#18536049)

APK's Feature Film, Coming Soon!

I'm pretty sure OS X adoption is increasing over the long run. Sure every day brings a reason why it will be OS X 97.86% and Windows .05% (iLife 07, Microsoft is doomed!!!!!) but Apple is making progress. 14BC-2005,2006?
The app for Macs isn't univerrsal yet (photoshop)

Probably because the Amiga was, in its past, one of the most popular computing platforms in the world.

Uh no, it has never been anywhere close to 'one of the most popular computing platforms in the world', see http://www.pegasus3d.com/total_share.html and http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-shar e.ars

Theres about 200 million computers sold each year nowadays (http://www.pegasus3d.com/total_share.html). Take away a few %s for Macs. Take away a few more %s for linux users. And a few more for companies that aren't looking to use the latest OS. So even if half of that number comes with a Vista OS preinstalled, they're about on target for 200 million in two years.

And thats not counting over-the-counter, just-the-OS sales.

I'm not saying these numbers are scientific, except for the 200 million new computers sold, but its definitely a goal they can obtain.

Spin in any way you want, spear somebody in the chest, mod pro-apple posts up. Whatever.

Final Score :
        Internet Freedom 1
        Steve Jobs 0

Given that Apple's lost about 80% of their market share, I'm still going to bet on Freedom and not Apple.

Depends what you consider a "benefit for Apple." Maybe people like the ads, but the bottom line is that the Mac's market share has been dropping since the early 90's. So whether or not the ad campaign makes people think about buying a Mac, it doesn't make them actually buy one.

Meanwhile, Apple market share continues to dwindle downward.

Well one could go with history and note the fact that EVERY new version of Windows has been a lot slower than the predecessor. Meanwhile every version of OS X has been faster than the predecessor.

If you look at the unit sales of Macs from Apple quarterly reports, you'll see that they is usually significantly larger growth YoY that in the overall PC market. That means growing market share.

Or confirm it by looking at sites browser stats. This one shows Mac userbase doubling in 3 years. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a sp

yup, and the column view even goes back to the Apple Lisa http://www.pegasus3d.com/apple_screens/Dec1980.gif

> Macintosh quarterly unit sales: 8 million > Xbox entire lifecycle unit sales: 22 million (2.4 million/quarter average)

You seem to have confused Mac sales with iPod sales. The iPod sold 8mln last quarter. Macintosh quarterly unit sales has been hovering around 1mln for years, see this and this for figures. Apple only buys the 970 from IBM, the G4s all come from Freescale. This means at best about 2mln IBM PPCs per year. Now what was your last question again?

You want the whole story? Here's the whole story. You only need to look at two lines, the blue rising one (total PC sales) and the flat purple one at the bottom (total Mac sales).

Bzzzttt!!!

The chart of iPod sales over the past few years is all anyone needs to see the massive drop in sales for the first time since the iPod was introduced:

http://www.pegasus3d.com/macsales9904.gif

Throwing around unitless words like 'strong' mean nothing. Apple themselves are warning that next quarter is looking weak, too.

Something is clearly rotten in iPod land.

You are out of your fucking mind if you think anyone at Apple is anything but in a panic over this chart:

(red line, a little hard to see)
http://www.pegasus3d.com/macsales9904.gif

Apple's main cash cow just had a 50 percent drop in sales! Wake the fuck up!

Well, Apple's global share is around 1.9% as of 2004. Dell's market share is around 18% as of 2004. So that means, Apple has about 1/9th of Dell's market share. In terms of number of computers sold, they're still smaller than Acer. I mean, you could also rephrase your statement to say that Apple has nearly 2/3 of Acer's marketshare (or 66%). That makes Apple even larger, right?

I don't know where you get your figure of 80M chips per year, but sites like this one list Macintosh sales for 2004 at approximately 3.5M units. Even if all were dual processors (they're not), you are overstating processors by more than an order of magnitude.

Even at current sales Apple might have become AMD's biggest customer, but not overwhelm them at all like you suggest.

I also agree that Apple wouldn't be where it is today if Dell were running the company (I said as much in my original post). I don't know where Dell gets such a crappy reputation... I would much rather own a Dell than a Gateway, HP (now), Sony (rootkits preinstalled!), etc, and all my past experiences with Dell (my own computers and working tech support on a college campus) have been fine (far more Windows problems than Dell problems). The world needs cheap computers, and Dell does a good job meeting that need. Of course, I prefer Apple most of all...

>Personally, I'm already using Linux exclusively as a desktop on my new system

What, you and the other two fanatics.

http://www.pegasus3d.com/osshare.html

So, the TRS-80 available in 1983 fit in a backpack?

Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying.

No?

Yes! Yes! That's what I'm saying! Yes! Yes they did!

You're talking about something totally different. Sure, it's interesting that Tandy eventually built a portable computer. How many did they sell?

Tandy built a portable computer in 1983 that had PDA functionality. That was all I was saying. I wasn't saying it was a Newton or a Palm or even a Sharp Wizard. I wasn't talking about the Pocket Computer line, either, which was actually made by Sharp, and was a "personal organizer" like the Wizards. I wasn't even slamming Apple (hey, the Model 102 is 11.8" x 8.5" x 1.9" -- compare to my 12" Powerbook at 10.9" x 8.6" x 1.2")

I'm not sure how many they sold. According to this site, their total sales were 200,000 computers that year, so probably not a whole hell of a lot. But, frankly, I don't see that as being the point.

OK. I've said more than enough. But as a Mac guy who started as a TRS-80 guy, I get defensive when people bash my platforms.

Well, after your attempts to make up a lawyer, I don't know whether to believe you that you have a job. But it would be interesting to know if your job(s) are going well for you.

Nope. I wasn't suggesting that.

I was just talking about how the "dominant format" of a given time falls out of dominance very quickly when it goes. Obviously, even when TRS80 was one of the big two or three formats, there were still only a few million of them out there (source: http://www.pegasus3d.com/total_share.html)

But look at 8-track audio tapes. At one time, they were quite popular. You could buy 'em in every dimestore. You can still play 'em, if you're willing to spend a lot of time and effort. But it's getting harder and harder. Audio cassettes are heading in that same direction. They're rarer and rarer.

As for the eBay/OCR situation: it might be possible. Every few months, there's a similar machine for sale. I've tried reading the disks in other machines, and haven't had much success. I think that the data integrity must be fading over time.

... so it will be up to Apple to prove, if it can, that its interface was documented and notarized before Creative.

Will a December 1980 Prototypedo?

Clearly x86 BIOS is dying

Who was being petty? I was responding to a guy who was scolding someone for using a boot loader instead of coming up with a new BIOS. I was being reasonable. If you figure out who was being petty, think about letting me know... then think about whether or not I care.

Gee, I remember something called the Apple II doing this long before microsoft was the force it was. What a maroon.

While the Apple II was revolutionary, there were only a million installed at its peek. The PC (with MS supplied software) surpassed this within 3 years of its launch, and after the same length of time the Apple II took to reach that figure, had over ten times as many installed users. It didn't reach figures that I'd call "mass acceptance" until around '99 (another order of magnitude on top of that), which is the point at which I think it's safe to say that few people in the technologically advanced areas of the world did not have access to a personal computer of some kind (although it's still only one computer per... what, 10 people in america, europe and the pacific rim?).

[Source]

HP has a fairly long history of getting rid of geniuses. Doubtlessly there are a few who remain well employed, but rejecting Wozniak and Jobs' idea for a personal computer has to rank with one of the all-time mistakes in corporate America, up there with the Coca-Cola Company not buying Pepsi when it had the chance, IBM giving a small software company a monopoly on its PC operating system, etc.

I suspect that somehow HP will muddle through, just as IBM did. They're still a good company, despite the damage Fiorina caused them with their expensive and ill-considered buyout of Compaq Computers.

You probably have figured it out, but always
like that.

Check out the nice straight lines here: http://www.pegasus3d.com/osshare2.gif (original source, Google). In 18 months XP had the Windows marketshare lead.

Please think about what the figures in that graph represent for a minute. For example:

• The Win2K market share has been almost completely unaffected by the arrival of WinXP.
• It took longer for WinXP to hit majority market share than Win98.

Also, notice that WinME isn't shown at all. There's a whole operating system that isn't there. If it's been merged into the Win98 figures, then that suggests that the adoption of WinXP was only around half as fast as its predecessors.

Slashdot FUD isn't much of a predictor of anything.

However, official announcements from Microsoft that they're dropping the two most useful pillars out of the original three that were supposed to be the heart of Longhorn are likely to be, well, representative of Microsoft policy, no?

New PCs, on the other hand, are the irresistible force.

Only measured over a period of years. The day after Longhorn comes out, if IE7 doesn't work with existing web sites, it's unlikely many of those sites will care at all. The same "support the majority player" mindset that has held back W3C standards compliance for years is going to come back and bite Microsoft in the backside now if they try to play proprietary again. Too bad.

Well, I've provided an argument why it will mostly "just work", so you will need to provide one why it won't.

No, I don't. My argument (see my original post) is simply that the best strategy for web developers is to do nothing special for IE7. If it "just works", that policy won't cost them anything. It if doesn't, I think it will hurt Microsoft a lot more than it hurts the WWW. My position doesn't lose either way.

Utter bullshit. Check out the nice straight lines here: http://www.pegasus3d.com/osshare2.gif (original source, Google). In 18 months XP had the Windows marketshare lead.

Which still left around 40% of the market in the hands of win98 and win2000, assuming you trust the figures here. While approximately 60% may be a "marketshare lead", it sure as hell isn't enough of a lead to dictate much of anything.

In any event, take a look at the graph and this time look closely. Almost all of XP's gains came from Win95/98 users, who decided not to switch to win2000. It's extremely unlikely that these folks will be looking to throw away all their software again simply to upgrade to what (from Joe User's perspective) appears to be another version of XP. And from the graph it appears that the win2000 users probably won't bother with Longhorn at all (they blew XP off completely).

I'd say it's probably fair to assume that Longhorn is going to have the lowest adoption rate of all MS OS's, with the possible exception of WinME. At least for a couple of years.

Max

Adoption of new operating systems from Microsoft has been slowing dramatically since Win2K.

they've cut most of the potentially great stuff out of it already; see Slashdot discussions passim. There's not much of a compelling driver for upgrades, which means the only way it's getting out there in serious volumes is via new PCs.

If they're lucky, they get a month or two, by which time if there are serious incompatibility flaws, every magazine, on-line review site, CIO journal and tech news forum is going to be carrying the fact that IE7 breaks web sites and the damage really starts, crippling further spread of IE7.

But if it was going to "just work", Microsoft wouldn't need to spend a fortune trying to get everyone to check their sites and fix the breakage early. They're worried it won't "just work", which is pretty telling

Gecko-based browsers have around 10% market share today, depending on who you ask, yet we're only just now seeing some key web sites (particularly those dealing with financial matters) upgrading in the face of customer pressure and bad PR.

most of the pros I know (of which there are quite a few, given I work in a big tech centre) are more than familiar with the W3C standards, and curse IE's insistence on doing things its own way regularly

Gee, I wonder where Apple got the navigation idea.

Here are real market share figures, year by year. The Mac peaked at 11.20% in 1991. Every year since then, it's dropped. For 2004, the figure is 1.8%.

But the awful year was 1996, when Mac market share dropped from 9% to 5.1%. Just at the PowerPC transition. And in 1997, it was 3.45%.

That's reality.

If we assume that every single Mac sold ever was still in service as of 2005/1/1 (51.044 million) . . .

And that the number of all other personal computers in the installed base on 2005/1/1 equaled only the number of IBM clones sold in 2003-2004 alone (320.795 million, for a combined Mac+Others installed base of 371.839 million) . . .

Then the Mac had an installed base of 13.7% (51.044/371.839) of personal computers as of January 1, 2005.

(Sales figures provided )

There is no non-ludicrous way to reach a figure of 16% for the Mac installed base. The numbers just don't work.

I agree with your assesment, but wanted to mention that market share for Apple has never been 20% and now hovers near 2%. Just found out myself from: http://www.pegasus3d.com/total_share.html/

> There are as many Mac users now as there were
> windows users not that long ago.

? When, like 1985?

Would you also like to hear a song by the author of this article?

It's where Jeremy Reimer libels another person, and Jeremy Reimer (author of this article, heck this term paper where he spits back the ideas of others only re-reciting them) wrote and composed it:

http://www.pegasus3d.com/download/apksong2000+++.m p3

Jeremy Reimer is 33 years old and acts like a child and is an incredible idiot apparently. Some wanna be with no degree or professional experience in this field either.

Exhibit A
Yeah, they weren't at an all-time high in 2004, although they were on an upswing in terms of raw numbers sold.

Exhibit B
But come 2005, their unit sales were up 43%. So, taking a 3500KMac as the 2004 number, that means the 2005 number is around 5000KMac, which beats the 1996 spike.

So, apparently the ad campaign is working better than you think.

the market share for apple has been steadily decreasing since about 1993. in total numbers, there is more apple hardware out there, but in terms of percentages they continue to lose ground to x86 systems. currently, it stands that about 98% of PCs are x86 based, with 2% for apple.

When Jobs actually figures out how to sell computers, as opposed to operating system service packs at high margins, let me know.

Apple sold 4.5 million Macs in calendar year 1995; since Jobs took over in '97 they've never managed to sell four million in a single calendar year. And that's despite the whole personal computer market selling 3.5 times as many units in 2004 as in 1995. Data here.

Today, more than 130 million personal computers are sold each year!

Everything Apple's ever done has, according to people who get paid to be taken seriously, been the death knell of the company.

Let's look at the figures. Apple had about 16% market share with the Apple II, with the Mac, they had a peak of about 12% in the early 1990's. In 2004, they are down to about 2%. They must be doing something wrong, and I don't think it's just games.

Dammit...

http://pegasus3d.com/mac_sales.html

It's the second graph

Anecdote != data. Even at it's peak, the Mac didn't account for more than 13% of the market.

http://pegasus3d.com/mac_sales.html/

Yes, I do!

The iMac was in development before Jobs came around. Other than that brief shining moment, and ipod, Jobs doesn't have much to show for himself.

According to this in 1993 apples share was 10%. While this chart gives no idea on actually installed base we do know the PC market is MANY times larger today then it was 10 years ago resulting with a small % that apple can serve.
But you are very right in apple still has a LONG road ahead, hopefuly apple from one side, Linux from the other and the PC market can be broken into three dominant platforms.
Hey, I can dream can't I? ;)

This table shows that market share on the mac has been flat for about 10 years.. Given that last time I had real numbers (the 1999 mac sales demographics) Apple was running about 45% new users or PC switchers (only on the imac, though, I admit I don't have the tower or portable's numbers which probably constitute quite a few repeat sales bringing the ratio down a bit on average). If this trend continued since then, either the users from 1995-1999 haven't upgraded or they have switched to something else.

In any case, I still submit that falling share in established markets are more of a worry than flat market share. (They also might account for the bulk loss in repeat customers!)

Yep, that's 'cause I'm a moron and pasted the wrong link. The correct one is below.

http://www.pegasus3d.com/total_share.html