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Windows computers cost half as much, more or less, for the same specs so the replacement rate is probably much higher. Like for the same price you can buy a PC laptop every 2 years vs 1 Mac laptop every 4 years.

When I worked at Apple, the plastic MacBooks outsold everything else because they were cheapest. It was weird that we did all our power/performance benchmarks on a $2000 15" MacBook Pro when they only made up 10-15% of Mac sales.

From that time, we also knew that Macs were extremely popular for home use, IIRC something like 30-40% penetration, but people were using Windows for work or being given a Windows laptop from work for personal use.

One of the reasons Apple never made a Netbook was that it was an inferior good. People, when asked, prefered a larger screen and trackpad but couldn't afford it. The bottom-tier 11" MacBook Air and the iPad were a response to upsell that demand.



Price has nothing to do with replacement rate. There are many bad laptop brands, though.

30% penetration in the USA. Here we are talking about global usage. In many other first-world countries Macs are nowhere to be seen, eg 3%.


> 30% penetration in the USA. Here we are talking about global usage.

Then later in this same thread you say:

> Webpages in non-latin alphabets probably use way less fonts from Google Fonts.

So uh, which is it?


I don't follow. Precisely because we are talking about the global usage you have to consider webpages in non-latin alphabets which increase the ratio of Macs for latin alphabet countries.




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