Mark, you are right on!
Apple revealed that there are now nearly 100 million active Mac users
Windows 10 is now four times as popular as the MAC
Of course, Apple sells mostly hardware, Microsoft sells mostly software. But in the end, Microsoft is doing very well ans Apple has to catch up.
Consider:
400 million machines are now running Windows 10Not counting all the other windows versions...
- just the ones called
Windows 10.A 3 % growth means 12 million copies of Windows 10 is sold every year, if they keep up that 3% growth. The cost of distributing the software is very small when compared to hardware. Now if MS gets $30 for every copy sold to OEM, it is a lot of cash for a product that can be distributed for near zero cost.
Do the math. Here is another reference:
https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/26/13057980/microsoft-windows-10-400-million-devicesThat is not news, it is two years old. So by now there could be 410million.
The windows phone is near dead, yet there are many other devices doing Windows 10. Every copy represents more cash into Microsoft.
Microsoft expects to hit its 1 billion devices target for Windows 10.
Soon.