Turley Muller

What the recession means for the Mac

Money gets tight. Buyers get picky. Price-sensitive consumers -- the kind Steve Jobs  and Apple famously "choose not to serve" -- start shopping for bargain basement PCs and Taiwanese netbooks. Mac sales plummet.

That's the conventional wisdom. Or at least that's the line Morgan Stanley's Kathryn Huberty pitched in September -- when she lowered Apple's (AAPL) rating twice in two weeks -- and reiterated last week, when she earned the distinction MORE

Mac Internet share hits record 8.87%; Windows drops below 90%

Apple's (AAPL) slice of the Internet pie grew measurably in November as both the Mac and the iPhone hit record numbers in a Net Applications Web survey issued overnight Monday and updated Monday morning.

At the same time, Microsoft's (MSFT) Web presence crossed two psychological barriers, with Windows' Internet share dropping below 90% for the first time and Internet Explorer's market share retreating to less than 70%.

The Mac's share of Web MORE