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Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market

Posted by timothy on from the your-only-possible-choices-are-vista-and-os-x dept.

Tibor the Hun writes "According to Gartner and IDC, Apple now has between 7.8 and 8.5% of market share. While those numbers are not astonishing, they are not insignificant, and their growth does not seem to be slowing down. Will the pearly gates of acceptance open up for them once they reach the magic 10%, and will that have a positive effect on desktop Linux adoption? Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS, rather than staying with the headache-inducing Windows."

2 of 1,019 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Normal People? by cbreaker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You don't need full admin privileges to install Flash.

    These are lazy solutions, and you're full of them.

    --
    - It's not the Macs I hate. It's Digg users. -
  2. Re:Normal People? by locokamil · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What does *NIX store configuration files in? Text files you say? Oh...

    Brought to you from a Linux machine, of course.