Windows Now Outselling Apple Products Only 2 to 1
The chart at right is getting all sorts of attention this morning, but I don’t think it means nearly as much as some tech bloggers are reading into it.
When the first Macintosh was launched in 1984, it sold 372 thousand units. In that same year, Microsoft sold over 2 million licenses for its competing operating system, MS-DOS. As time went by, that ratio grew even larger.
The ratio between the 2 OSes has been a favorite topic for tech bloggers, who’ve used it to judge the relative market dominance of Windows vs Mac.
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