20 May
2010
20 May
'10
11:53 a.m.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 5/20/10 2:36 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
[Blinks] It's been fairly widely discussed. I have seen an effort at
totting up the numbers but not for some time.
SCO and Solaris both claim to have been the biggest seller in terms of
licenses, but that's still only in the millions at best, and some of
the more optimistic claims of desktop Linux are around 12 million.
Maybe 20-30 million if you count all distros, the BSDs etc.
But every iPhone and iPod Touch runs OS X. Apple have been selling
many tens of millions of these a year for 3 or so years, plus a decade
of sales of Mac OS X machines, which I believe are at something like
one third of the USA notebook computer market for systems over $600.
Apple is doing very, very well, and all its computers since about 2001
have run OS X in some form, plus all its phones and all the high-end
iPods. That's a /lot/ of boxes.
And every one is a certified Open Group UNIX?? machine.
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(On the same note, by any measure, Mac OS X is
the most-successful
UNIX there has ever been. The number of users basically equals the
number of installations, which again is many hundreds of millions -
more than all other forms of Unix ever put together, including all the
open source ones, even if you count users on terminals as opposed to
host systems.)
?Wow, this is an interesting claim. ?Got any data to back that up?