Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share • Hacker News Board

Re: Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share

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Post by tx » Wed, Jul 02, 2008, 12:18 AM UTC

cstejerean wrote: post #11

halo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think I'll ever understand this. Unless you own shares, one company's success over another isn't really anything worth celebrating. This isn't a good vs. evil situation no matter how much some people want to paint it that way. Personally, I'm just happy that I can use any of the 3 major OSes these days without a problem, which is largely thanks to FireFox eating IE's marketshare on Windows.

If you're an OS X user it is worth celebrating. Increased market share means more companies start paying attention to OS X which means more games, more software, better support and more employers starting to support/allow Macs.

I disagree. One of the reasons why Linux (and to a much lesser extent, OSX) rock so much is precisely because they aren't hugely popular.

Everything-windows is so commercialized, that even googling for home networking issues will keep landing you onto commercial message boards overloaded with ads and polluted by retards. And every little piece of shit software utility is $9.99 shareware.

10% won't be much of a problem, but I'm quite happy with how things are right now.

Re: Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share

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Post by gojomo » Wed, Jul 02, 2008, 12:24 AM UTC

I remember when Apple "approached" an 8 percent share from the other direction. :(

Re: Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share

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Post by nailer » Wed, Jul 02, 2008, 1:44 AM UTC

Hexstream wrote: post #19

Soon we'll see whether or not Apple gets viruses proportional to its marketshare. This old, tired debate has been going on for way too long.

Apple doesn't get viruses proportional to its marketshare at present. Neither do most Linux distros.

In terms of majority market share, it's already been proven bunk for server software by Linux and Apache.

Re: Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share

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Post by wheels » Wed, Jul 02, 2008, 3:12 AM UTC

st3fan wrote: post #8

iron_ball wrote: post #4

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And that's totally bizarre, because I've seen people wearing Linux-branded portable music players everywhere, and I've seen Linux distro logos in major motions pictures and even Metal Gear Solid 4. Given Linux's all-encompassing focus on making their software beautiful and easy to use, and their extensive TV and print ad campaigns, I'm amazed we haven't seen a major uptick in installs.

"""Given Linux's all-encompassing focus on making their software beautiful and easy to use""" Personally I find Linux desktops to be extremely frustrating, buggy, inconsistent and not well designed. Many applications are ugly. If you live in a terminal/firefox world you probably won't notice this though :-) S.

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