Mac Install-Base Shown to Be 16%

Posted by Zonk on Saturday June 4, 2005 @08:37PM from the thats-a-lot-of-fruit dept.

Kelly McNeill writes "MacDailyNews has an editorial which summarizes reports from various research groups that analyzed the number of computer users affected by viruses. The conclusion was that 16 percent of all computer users are not affected by viruses because they use Macs. The lack of viruses on a Mac is commonly known, but the interesting thing is the fact that the results finally provide the first set of conclusive numbers which illustrate the Macintosh's install-base. So far only "market-share" statistics are commonly published for the public and do not convey install base. (If for example 2 people are using computers and one replaces his 2x in a 3 year period and the other only does once, market-share dynamics dictate that one demographic has 75% market share while the other has only 25% -- even though install base is still 50/50.)"

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Re:Sigh ... by Udo+Schmitz · 2005-06-05 01:29 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Notice how he said shiny new G5, G5's have not been around for years. So his assumption of Mac's shiny obnoxious colors could be correct.
Hm. What he wrote was:

"I constantly hear Mac zealots all excited about their new shiny G5 in some overly pretentious colour like magenta or something"

The last colorful Mac was the iMac (Summer 2001). The G5 was announced in June 2003 and its predecessor wasn't what I'd call overly colorful either. That's why I smelled a troll.