Thursday, April 14, 2005

In my opinion, the tech world won’t be a healthy one until the three major desktop Operating Systems (GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows) have a more balanced market share. I therefore tend to follow OS statistics quite closely. After reading about Morgan Stanley’s positive projections for the Mac platform in 2005/6, I decided to plot the number of Mac units sold since 2001. Unfortunately, I haven’t plotted the industry-wide stats in order to compare with the sector at large (which is what really matters). But here it is anyway. The data comes from www.apple.com/pr.