Personal & Technology 29 Aug 2006 02:24 pm
Venting, and anecdotal information on Apple marketshare
The PSR campus wireless has been down for three #!$*ing weeks now. And because I could get wireless in my room, about a month ago, I cancelled my DSL. So I am borrowing bandwidth from cafes, the computer lab, or, much more happily, my SO’s wireless. But, it has put a major crimp in my online style.
So much for that. The much more interesting part is that I am noticing a whole lot of Macintoshes in the world. Just about every cafe I go to, there is at least 50% Macs, usually more. There are less at the cafe right near campus - more in the cafes down the hill. Today, I was at this little cafe on the border of Oakland, and there were 2 macs to every PC.
Yes, this is a college town, and full of creative people. Yes, we are a stone’s throw (in the broad geographic sense of the phrase) from Cupertino. But it’s pretty interesting information. Lots of the Macs are new (I’ve been spying quite a number of the new black MacBooks.)