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Apple by now has half the market capitalization of Microsoft, which says
something as it is bigger than Oracle, IBM, Intel or HP. Its market
share probably grew 37% last year (estimate for 4th quarter). It is
currently at 8% market share.
And its newest operating system release (Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard") sells
at USD 129 (everyone gets the "ultimate" version) - and is in many ways
more advanced.
But still, in absolute numbers of operating systems sold, Microsoft
rules.

Marc

But Apple also includes the selling of 90 million Ipods. Lot of profit
there.

Above numbers of market share are for computers (desktop and laptop - in
laptops it is even higher).
in iPods it is rather like 70%.
As for the valuation: it also includes the iPhone - but luckily all
three divisions are profitable.
Anyway: Back to boating :-)

Marc

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