These stats are so disingenuous! What's particularly depressing is that some people will look at them and simply say, "Macs are in a tiny minority - fact. Why bother?'. It's not that that is a simplistic analysis, it's a simple-minded one.
Although it's clearly unarguable that Windows has a massively superior market share, it's a 'dumb' stat in that it takes no account of any particular market sector or country. Does it include embedded systems? This sounds ridiculous, but consider that a lot of the market share of Windows phones, surface and Windows RT systems were based on figures that included those manufactured and in stock, not just in use. It's another demonstration of "lies, damned lies and statistics".
For example every small company that buys a computer for every individual secretary/admin person, all the corporations that standardise on Windows, and all the home users that can't afford Macs (particularly in the second and third world) are used to Windows and are worried about the unfamiliarity of switching to a new OS even if they have heard good things about it. My neighbour is a case in point. He has his own small business, Windows based, and he has the common Windows issues of his machine getting slower and slower, Browser hijacks, viruses etc. He knows that the Mac has none of these issues, and that there is some fabulous software for his specialised area, written specifically for the Mac, yet he's reluctant to move away from what he knows on the basis of "better the devil you know".
In particular market sectors (video production for example and graphic design) the Mac has a much, much larger market share. The creative industries generally have a much higher proportion of Macs. There are lots of architecture practices who use nothing but Macs.
Similarly, if you look at universities and computer science labs, the proportion of Linux users will be way higher than 0.95%. Same goes for network administrators.
So please, let's be a little bit more open-minded 🙂
