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Ok? And in the PC market they're also referring to Mac vs. Windows... I'm not seeing your point.
Flase, in the pc market they compare Apple to Dell and HP, not windows as a whole.
That was tossed in as an extra statistic, just pointing out the two top sellers in the PC market. The article still referred to Mac vs the entire Windows PC market as a whole, stating that Apple only holds ~12% of that market. If the author threw in "IDC reports that the two market leaders, Samsung and HTC , hold X percent and Y percent of the smartphone market share, respectively," that doesn't suddenly mean the author was comparing Apple to Samsung and HTC, does it? He is still comparing iOS to Android, but just threw in that extra fact of how much of the market the top two manufacturers hold.
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The 15 percent share that Apple holds in smartphones is just a slight improvement on the 12.5 percent they hold in the U.S. PC market, according to IDC.
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IDC reports that the two market leaders, HP and Dell, hold 26 percent and 30.7 percent of the market share, respectively.
That's only 56.7% of the market, where Apple only holds 12.5% of the market. That leaves 30.8% for all other Windows PCs.
Edited by Stealth Pyros - 11/8/12 at 8:01am