Apple to 'Switch' to Windows?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 16, 2006 @07:00AM from the we-all-scoffed-at-an-intel-move-too dept.

JFlex writes "PC Mags writer John C. Dvorak discusses the idea that Apple may dump OS X and 'switch' to running Windows in a recent column: "The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process had already begun. I was amused, but after mulling over various coincidences, I'm convinced he may be right. This would be the most phenomenal turnabout in the history of desktop computing.""

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Re:Dvorak: wrong, again. by schmidt · 2006-02-16 07:27 · Score: 1, Troll

So we'll just ignore that the iPod is one of the most successful consumer products ever [...]

I agree that the iPod has been successful. However, some people seem to overestimate the number of units actually sold.

The iPod has currently sold 42 million units. For comparison, the Nokia 3310 cellphone has sold over 100 million units. The total market for cellphones in 2005 was 800 million units of which Nokia sold 265 million.