Making sense of Mac market share figures: “

Mac market share has been a hot topic ever since Apple staggered into (and subsequently crawled out of) the gutter in the mid-90s. It has been a slow but steady climb to the point where, as of late, Apple has set quarter after quarter of records when it comes to both Mac and iPod sales.

But, as even the casual Apple-watcher knows, there are many different metrics for measuring Mac market share these days, and they often don’t match up. Browser stats, sales figures, notebooks versus desktops—it can all get a little muddy after a while. Here, we try to analyze these different statistics to get a bigger picture of what’s really going on with the long-time underdog of the PC world.

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(Via Ars Technica.)