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Nearly One in Four Windows Users Surveyed Plan to Switch to Mac Within Next Six Months
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They'll buy using a credit card. And yes, people really do that.
Historically, I've noticed that about 1/5th of the people who are interviewed and say they're going to do something, actually end up doing it.
I would question the monitoring tools used on your work computer.
We had similar issues here when we rolled out Win 10.
Out of the box, all our new laptops were screaming fast. A few pilot users got to run them clean and loved them.
Once the corporate image was finalized, they became turds.
Between the McAfee suite of garbage and a host of other security "modifications", these machines are worse than the Win 7 until they replaced.
For the record, I opted for a 2016 MBP with Core i7 and 512gb SSD. They still killed it a bit with MDM tweaks, but it's usable.
I don't use a mac, but I do use windows 10 and it's awful... Cortana and One drive are won't get out of your way... Windows app store insists on installing and reinstalling after you remove apps like candy crush...In addition the OS is bloated with useless apps including the new Edge...
I'm having trouble making the numbers line up in this article. Mac Rumors please show your work.
Also, interesting curve there by income. highest at both ends with a fairly smooth curve between.
edit: I went and read the source article three times now too and I'm at a loss as to how they support that assertion. The headline claims nearly one in four Windows users surveyed plan to switch to Mac within the next six months. That's an unbelievable claim and would represent a seismic shift in the market with Windows currently having roughly 80% of the market we're talking about 20% shift to Mac, that sounds like a flawed study.
But then we look at the data, they don't even support the headline. Presumably these data are for Windows users intending to switch (as the source article calls the Mac users out separately) so with the highest percentage being at 20% there's no way the average across the population works out to "nearly one in four." Maybe my brain is a little foggy today, would the author care to explain how they support these conclusions?
edit 2: also the source article lists "next 6 to 24 months" as the window in the survey rather than "six months" as claimed in the MR article.
edit 3: the wording in the source article doesn't even make sense...
that's not mathematically possible.
Also, interesting curve there by income. highest at both ends with a fairly smooth curve between.
edit: I went and read the source article three times now too and I'm at a loss as to how they support that assertion. The headline claims nearly one in four Windows users surveyed plan to switch to Mac within the next six months. That's an unbelievable claim and would represent a seismic shift in the market with Windows currently having roughly 80% of the market we're talking about 20% shift to Mac, that sounds like a flawed study.
But then we look at the data, they don't even support the headline. Presumably these data are for Windows users intending to switch (as the source article calls the Mac users out separately) so with the highest percentage being at 20% there's no way the average across the population works out to "nearly one in four." Maybe my brain is a little foggy today, would the author care to explain how they support these conclusions?
edit 2: also the source article lists "next 6 to 24 months" as the window in the survey rather than "six months" as claimed in the MR article.
edit 3: the wording in the source article doesn't even make sense...
that's not mathematically possible.
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not all of us have macbook money to make that jump.
but yes im one of those getting a macbook pro in the next 4 months moving from a PC
Interesting. I'm moving from Mac to PC, because, yeah. Um. Stoopid prices and nearly 10 years of ignoring pro users. And when they finally say "we haven't forgotten about you", even though 1 legit Mac Pro update in 10 years suggests otherwise, they throw a starting price for a $5,000 iMac Pro at us. LOL
Buh-Bye! Mac.
which pc are you getting?
My wife has a macbook pro 2017 and it's pretty sweet.
i just hate that she already had to purchase a $90 dongle not to mention the lack of ports.
I agree, the idea that a quarter of windows users would plan to switch in the 6 months would equate in a unimaginable increase in Mac sales, and a dongle demand that even Apple couldn't meet!
Seriously, how could anyone manage to believe 200 million plus windows users would change in 6 months, I.e 400+ million a year run-rate, or basically more than the top 10 pic manufacturers combined not selling another pic for the next year and you still wouldn't get enough switchers.
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No wonder, with all these ransomware attacks hammering Windows machines, the average Joe is probably remembering that clever marketing campaign about how Macs don't get viruses.
I find it more revealing that those with so little income plan on switching! I mean come on it's like 10-20% of their annual earnings for a machine? I'd consider those in the middle are those with jobs and little need for a laptop who can't afford it. The sample size of 2000 is WAY too small and the round 20% figure suggest they only had 5 people in the 150K bracket too!
The majority of those attacks are occurring on non-updated computers in places like Ukraine. Doubtful they'll be moving to expensive Macs.
Grass is always greener... While I love OS X, iOS, and the Apple ecosystem, I am becoming fed up with Apple hardware.
> MBA 11" dead after 3 yrs (bricked).
> Mac 27" dead after 2.5 yrs (all ports dead)
> Mac Mini life span = max 24 mos after two tries
> MacBook Pro (super slow after 18 months, even after clean wipe and reinstall)
> iPhone 7 Plus - haptic home button has become laggy and slow to respond
> iPad Pro 9.7 - touch disease (very frequently, several swipes or touches are required to get a response)
This is expensive stuff! I still suspect Apple has a secret hardware deceleration and self-destruct button in the HQ basement! My MBP took a major performance dive about a week after WWDC this year.
I have two PC's running W10 and don't have the problems you are having. Cortana can be disabled and one drive also. I don't use either one and no issues. I also removed Candy Crush from one of them and no reinstalling occured. I would suggest you wander around W10 and google how to disable those programs that are bothering you. Edge isn't "useless" it just doesn't warrant my time to learn a new browser. Firefox working great in W10.
Good luck.
It's not MacRumors. They are reporting what the market research firm said almost verbatim. I agree it is odd.
That's what I was thinking. How many Mac users plan to switch to the PC in six months?
your macbook is already failing? that's a serious lemon if it only lasted two years...maybe the Arizona heat fried some internal components????
They don't line up. Either Verto Analytics has made a mistake or they are misrepresenting what the numbers refer to.
The breakdown by income purports to show what portion of respondents from each group (of current Windows owners) intends to switch to a Mac. The 21% and 25% purport to be for the whole group - again, what portion of respondents intends to switch to Mac - broken down into current Windows laptop owners and current Windows desktop users.
You can't get to 21% of the total if no subdivision within it is above 20%. That doesn't work arithmetically. (And the Simpson's Paradox, e.g., would not apply here.)
The only things I can think of which could reconcile the numbers - other than a mistake or mislabeling - would be: (1) that there's another category of Windows owners (i.e. other than laptops and desktops) which has a low intends-to-switch rate and which makes the (unreported) total lower than 21+ %, or (2) that the 21% and 25% numbers are for respondents intending to switch within the next 6 months and the numbers broken down by income are for respondents intending to switch in 6-24 months and, for some reason, the portion intending to switch soon is considerably higher than the portion intending to switch later. Neither of those possibilities seem likely to me. So I'm pretty sure they've made a mistake or mislabeled something.
This whole post-PC era doesn't appear to be catching on as Apple thought it would. I enjoyed my iPad while I still had them; but once the iPhone plus series arrived, I didn't really use them anymore. I regifted them to my friends and picked up a 12-inch MacBook. Unfortunately, I found myself wanting something more robust. I ended up ordering the new MacBook Pro because I can do more things' with a full-fledged laptop than I ever could on the iPad.
I have no doubt that tablets will eventually replace the laptops, and I look forward to that future. In the meantime, I'll continue to lug around the extra hardware. I have already divorced the desktop machines with standalone displays' and that is progress, but more bandwidth and a faster processor is needed for the iPad.
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That's what I did.. From macOS no less.
It's a shame because I really liked Mac OS while I used it (since 2004). But it's becoming too dumbed down. It's getting harder to do simple things in the filesystem (/etc /usr, stuff like that) with System Integrity Protection and POSIX compatibility is suffering. A lot of apps from 'brew' have issues now. I've especially had lots of issues with forwarded X-Window apps not working well with XQuartz (which should really still be part of the main OS). Xauth failing even though it's set up correcly, weird black borders around some input controls, stuff like that.
The bug in which the intel HAXM driver (which is needed for Android studio's emulator) breaks connecting to Samba shares was the last straw. Still not fixed in OS X Sierra
The lack of upgradability was another thing - my current main box is a 2011 Mac Mini (Dedicated GPU version). With 2 SSDs and 16GB RAM. If I couldn't have upgraded it would have been long obsolete. In fact I don't think I could buy this config in the current model if I wanted to.
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More like "We'll think of you next year, promise!"
Also, there's no mid-pro range anymore, the mini is no longer a capable machine with everything soldered down. An iMac could never work for me as I need to use my screens with multiple computers (not to mention the glossy screen).
And yeah it's great to be able to buy cheap hardware now. But still... I wish I could still use macOS. They do a lot of stuff right too.
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