Macs today

John Gruber makes an adept observation — While Apple is doing extremely well in the digital music market, they’re not really selling all that many more Macs than they used to. That seems right to me, since the energy is really strong and there’s a lot of developer and *NIX-fan focus on the platform now, yet it just doesn’t feel like Apple is any larger than when they were big a decade or so ago.

Gruber puts the numbers together and — surprise — that is indeed what comes out of the equation. So it seems that the success of the Mac today isn’t around the current masses of PC or UNIX users switching, but is about getting back to the cultural relevance and support where that switching might actually start taking shape.