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Sounds like Steve was trying to break into the Asian market. Mac OS has always been a mostly North American phenomenon but Steve liked to think big.

Mac OS world marketshare: http://www.webdeveloper.net.au/web-usage/operating-system/ap...

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Wow, Iceland really likes Macs. Can anyone explain why? I suppose the population is small enough that it only takes a few adopters to drive up the percentage, but still.

It could be due to localization issues. Is Icelandic OS X better than Icelandic Windows? The availability of an Icelandic keyboard?

Could be that pre-OSX was built with very good localization for more obscure* languages and it carried over into today.

*(Icelandic has at most has ~350k speakers)

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