http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/22/mac.pc.users/index.html Yes it appears CNN has brought back the age old debate. Apple or PC? I wonder if this study even took into consideration all the IT professionals who live in major cities. (Who happen to use PC's and Microsoft products everyday.) I don't know why they are bringing back this debate. Apple lost the desktop industry a long time ago, and the only computers they really have anymore are laptops. They've even discontinued their servers, and its no wonder why. I can't think of any network that I've been in that used Mac servers.
IT professionals do not a big impact on statistics have. Apple stores are in big cities. Computer stores are everywhere. Logically, apple has more customers in big cities. Higher educations get you jobs in big cities. Logically, more people with high education live in big cities. Therefore, apple has a higher number of users with high education. Same with fashion sense and "proper" culture. This is of course simplified as well.
LA, Atlanta, Austin, New York, and several other cities have massive IT industries, and with 3.3 million IT professionals in the US alone it definitely makes an impact. Big cities also have best buys, staples, frys, and even walmart selling PC's. And as far as education goes....I don't even think they even go into Apple in computer science majors anymore. In any case..... I still don't see how they call them "computer-savvy"... if anything Mac users are anything but.
Macs cost more thus the richer part of society will have a higher proportion of macs (Older rich people aren't as drawn to expensive tech ) and all the other stuff which that entails. But yeah it wasn't a real study and it's CNN.
yes, and small cities and towns shop at those best buys, staples, frys and walmart. Not at the apple store. There are probably as many computers as people in america, so that's 308,745,538 (back in 2010). So that's slightly more than 1% of an impact. And that's assuming everyone in the IT industry actually is actually an IT professional, and not the dude on the helpdesk phone who asks you if your computer is on when you report a malfunction.
Unfortunately, after looking into it the last conclusive study shows around 500-600 people out of every 1000 in the US own a computer, but that is from 2006. Which puts the number roughly around 150-210 million computers in 2006. So... its probably more like...... 228 million computers in the US. Unfortunately because so many computers are built at home, and because they've been massed produced for so long its really hard to get an exact estimate on how many exist. Also, everyone in the IT industry IS an IT professional. I can't think of any help desk job that doesn't require you to take an exam prior to being employed there, and that includes ones outside the country. The reason they ask you if your computer is turned on when you report malfunctions is because 40-60% of the calls they get are from people who either forgot to turn their computer/monitor on or accidentally kicked the power cord loose. So yes even those guys are IT professionals who've probably been working at a help desk long enough to know that most people who call with problems are too lazy to check if the computer is even plugged in or turned on.