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Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013

Posted by timothy on from the well-they're-very-good-at-making-things-roundish dept.

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..."

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  1. Xbox and Windows CE? by Megor1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did they include Xbox and windows CE devices?

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  2. It's not so much Apple's superiority. . . by whozatmac · · Score: 5, Insightful

    . . . Microsoft has done this to themselves. Having failed to come up with a compelling mobile space product, they decided to force the half baked mobile OS on desktops, where they had, for better or worse, at least established themselves. No one is buying windows 8 machines that owns any previous windows computer. . . and those who hadn't bought a computer yet are buying tablets and phones and other internet consumption products. Now Microsoft wants to kill of thier segment of the content creation space. It's baffling.

  3. Re:Not the whole picture by skine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is interesting, though, that after all these years of /. saying that "20XX is the Year of Linux on the Desktop," Unix-Like devices actually account for more than half of computing devices.

    Granted, they aren't as FOS as we might have hoped for.

  4. Re:The King is dead by quenda · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not so fast! If we are going to start comparing counts of "Devices", the clear winner is neither, but Linux.
    Windows still rules the Desktop, and Apple the MP3-players, but all those millions of routers, TVs, Blu-ray players, TiVos, GPS units, Android devices and even kitchen appliances....
    Linux *Devices* clearly outsell any other comparable platform, by a huge margin.

  5. And the zune? by transporter_ii · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't forget the Zunes. Whatever their final total was, add +8 to it, so it reflects the Zunes.

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  6. Re:Interesting observation because MS != Apple by DrEldarion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You do realize that Jobs was the one who said "people don't know what they want"? Apple is the #1 perpetrator of dictating to users what they "should" want.

  7. Re: Interesting observation because MS != Apple by sodul · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But that's not what the masses want, you're a nerd (admit it you're on slashdot) and what you want is a microscopic market niche. Steve was right.