XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:53:46 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:40:02 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >   
   >> In fiscal year 2025, Apple's revenue by segment is as follows:   
   >>    - Mac generated $33.71 B in revenue,   
   >>      representing 8.1% of its total revenue.   
   >   
   > What would the unit sales be, though? Assuming an average selling price   
   > of, say, $3000, that translates into 11 million units for the year. If   
   > the average time a user keeps a machine is 3 years, that means the   
   > installed base is a bit over 30 million Macs.   
   >   
   > This would be roughly consistent with the idea that something like 10%   
   > of users on each platform have Steam accounts. It also means that macOS   
   > is left in the dust by desktop Linux.   
      
   Not one person who wants to play games regularly would choose a Mac over a   
   Linux machine. The Mac, especially today, requires you to use MacOS which   
   has little to no support for games. Linux, on the other hand, can be run   
   on the same gaming machines that Windows runs on. A guaranteed 90% of   
   games will run because Wine will do the job, but they will also run _well_   
   because the machine has a discrete GPU.   
      
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