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What Percent of People Prefer Mac Over PC?
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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1821749" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>I am not trying to be controversial, but would like to inject a little scientific reality, having read the Link and a summary of the original paper. I have NOT read the entire original paper as that required a payment!!</p><p></p><p>This is the statement put out by the Study Group -</p><p></p><p>“Jamf is committed to enabling IT to empower end users and bring the legendary Apple experience to businesses, education and government organizations via its product portfolio, and the 80,000 members of Jamf Nation. Today, 30,000 global customers rely on Jamf to manage 14 million Apple devices.”</p><p></p><p>Conflict of interest? Truly unbiased?</p><p></p><p>1. 2200 is a tiny number in any scientific study where there are many millions of users (the original paper quotes 14 million Apple users alone. How many more Windows’ users?)</p><p></p><p>2. The 2200 were spread across five countries!</p><p></p><p>3. All were College Students or equivalent</p><p></p><p>4. Comparison was between Windows’ Laptops & Apple Notebooks</p><p></p><p>Suppose we looked at 750,000 users or more</p><p></p><p>Say we broke them up into age groups (18-25; 25-40; 40-60; over 60s)</p><p></p><p>Lets split them into Income Groups (crucial given the relative costs of the two products being investigated)</p><p></p><p>Divide usage into Social (ie private), Study, Business</p><p></p><p>Ideally one would like to look at other countries as they did, but the study numbers needed would escalate - and diversity of incomes, ethnicity, access to computers etc makes that a non-starter. So let’s stick with the USA.</p><p></p><p>I suspect the results would be very different.</p><p></p><p>And what a huge difference there would be if we compared Desktops!</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1821749, member: 83420"] I am not trying to be controversial, but would like to inject a little scientific reality, having read the Link and a summary of the original paper. I have NOT read the entire original paper as that required a payment!! This is the statement put out by the Study Group - “Jamf is committed to enabling IT to empower end users and bring the legendary Apple experience to businesses, education and government organizations via its product portfolio, and the 80,000 members of Jamf Nation. Today, 30,000 global customers rely on Jamf to manage 14 million Apple devices.” Conflict of interest? Truly unbiased? 1. 2200 is a tiny number in any scientific study where there are many millions of users (the original paper quotes 14 million Apple users alone. How many more Windows’ users?) 2. The 2200 were spread across five countries! 3. All were College Students or equivalent 4. Comparison was between Windows’ Laptops & Apple Notebooks Suppose we looked at 750,000 users or more Say we broke them up into age groups (18-25; 25-40; 40-60; over 60s) Lets split them into Income Groups (crucial given the relative costs of the two products being investigated) Divide usage into Social (ie private), Study, Business Ideally one would like to look at other countries as they did, but the study numbers needed would escalate - and diversity of incomes, ethnicity, access to computers etc makes that a non-starter. So let’s stick with the USA. I suspect the results would be very different. And what a huge difference there would be if we compared Desktops! Ian [/QUOTE]
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