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MacOS Market Share

The cluster debates the small market share of Macs and macOS (around 7-10%) compared to Windows-dominated PCs, Hacker News' Apple bubble bias, and shifts by developers to Linux or Windows.

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mavhc • Jul 23, 2020 • View on HN

MacOS is less than 10% of their sales, so makes sense.

AtlasLion • Nov 13, 2019 • View on HN

You seem to be living in an all apple bubble. MBP share is tiny when compared to windows laptops.

burnerthrow008 • Jun 24, 2024 • View on HN

Yes, it is! Look at how much smaller MacOS market share is compared to iOS in their respective markets. Stated preference vs. revealed preference.

bmarkovic • Jan 14, 2022 • View on HN

HackerNews is really a bubble sometimes. I don't get who the "many people" that "got used to macOS" are.Apple had fiery fest of sales in Q4 2021, outsold all Wintel manufacturers, let alone Chromebooks. And after that, guess what, they now have 8% of desktop/laptop market share, instead of 6% they used to have. You can guess who covers most of the other 90+ percent.Sent from my 2021 M1 Max MBP.

willyt • Jun 19, 2020 • View on HN

But 95% of computers sold ran windows then. 10% of computers run MacOS now and maybe 20% of phones. Just buy a different computer, or don't... Or if you are a developer, make software for Windows or Android instead.

sampsonitify • Oct 25, 2020 • View on HN

Mac Os X on desktop seems [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...

shortrounddev2 • Aug 9, 2025 • View on HN

Anyone not buying a macbook, which is still like 70% of the market

jamespo • Jun 17, 2025 • View on HN

Probably because macs are a small part of the market

Macha • Oct 2, 2022 • View on HN

It's very common on HN to forget that Macs have only a 10% share of the laptop market for sure

T-A • Dec 11, 2020 • View on HN

This is a very Apple-centric view. A reminder:https://www.statista.com/statistics/576473/united-states-qua...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_compu...