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both are monopolists
market share doesn't mean a whole lot when both Apple and Microsoft are effectively monopolists. You can buy any Intel machine to run Windows and you're locked in at the OS level. You must buy Apple hardware to run MacOS X and you're locked in at the hardware and OS level.
the difference in architecture, while important, makes it extremely difficult to write one program for both platforms which is another level of lock in albeit for software vendors.
Like so many things in the technology marketplace, choosing between Apple and Microsoft isn't really a choice at all but really choosing between variations of the same old story.