PeterN wrote:
On 9/16/2011 5:07 PM, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
wrote:

Unanswered question from earlier.

"If market position is on a periodic basis how is period of sale
accounted for by casual observation."

OK. I *have* to spell it out, I see.

Now, would you agree that laptops being seen have been bought?
Would you agree90% have been bought within some reasonable time
frame, no more than, say 5 years ago?[1]

If they have been bought within a certain time frame (and they
have), then that is the periodic basis on which the period of
sale is accounted for. OK?

And that's good enough to get a ballpark check on the quoted
market share numbers, and to find out it doesn't fit.

BTW what is the factual basis for you answer that Macs have a 2.5 x
longer life cycle than Windows PCs

I'm perfectly happy to assume they have a shorter lifecycle than
Windows laptops --- in which case Apple mustr sell even more
of them.

Your choice:
- Either Mac laptops are not long lived, then Apple must sell
much more for the observed numbers to happen consistently
= Apple has an even larger market share and the quoted
market share must clearly be bogus
- Or Mac laptops are long lived, then they are better ... and
they must be *very* long lived to be the factor explaining
the consistently observed numbers.
= Apple builds devices that are much longer useful and
therefore much cheaper dollar for dollar than equally
priced Windows laptops-
Choose your poison.

-Wolfgang

[1] Or 3 years, or 7 years --- doesn't matter, just pick a number.

Shoveling rapidly.

Indeed, PeterN's reported to strike gold any day now at 3km down.
However he'll be reportedly unable to distinguish between it and
fools gold or even coal ...

-Wolfgang