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Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013
zacharye writes "Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have long been considered the future of computing and a new projection from market research firm Gartner shows just how important the mobile market has become. According to the firm's estimates for 2013, Apple devices will outsell Windows devices for the first time this year. The estimate takes into account sales of Apple's iPhones, iPads and Mac computers as well as desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones powered by Microsoft's various Windows operating systems..."
MacTCP was released in 1988.
I tried to find data on historical accuracy of predictions by Gartner, but surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be any.
Here is one example (which is actually not that bad): http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/013108-gartner-it-predictions.html?page=1
You do realize that the iPhone makes more money than all of MS right? Quarter ending 12-31-2012: MSFT $21.42B Quarter ending 12-29-2012: Apple iPhone: $30.06B
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
So, Linux is winning overall and everybody try to capitalize on it by suing other entities ;-) Year of Linux on the whatever!
Tomorrow is another day...
As keeps being pointed out the real bearded ones: The operating system itself is the kernel together with the drivers and kernel modules. Everything else is either shell or application. You are messing up distributions with operating systems.
Actually, Google bought the original Google Maps too.