Few Japanese might buy an Intel Mac
japan.internet.com, in conjuction with Cross Marketing, performed a survey regarding Operating Systems for their home PC. They surveyed 150 men and 150 women who own computers at home via an internet-based questionnaire. The age demographics were equally split with 16.6% in their teens (actually only 18 and 19 year olds), twenties, thirties, and so on up to 16.6% in their sixties. It is not stated whether each age band was split equally between male and female.
I’m surprised to see that 12.0% of users are still limping along with one of Microsoft’s 16 bit operating system. Whether the one single Linux user reflects the demographics of Cross Marketing’s monitor pool or whether that is a true reflection of Linux in the Japanese home market, I do not know.
Although my headline says few Japanese may buy an Intel Mac, the 14.3% who responded with varying degrees of positivety represents almost four times as many people as the current Mac OS user base, suggesting that the figures are much more positive than at first glance.
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