Apple Gaining Marketshare, Mindshare
The latest numbers are looking good for Apple, especially in the Laptop market.
According to a ChangeWave survey, Apple's laptop share gained 5% over the past 90 days and is roughly 5% higher than a year ago, now sitting at 17%. The survey also indicates that 28% of potential buyers over the next 90 days will be choosing an Apple Laptop, and 23% choosing an Apple desktop.
In addition to the survey's findings, NPD data reported by Macworld pins June 2007 notebook retail market share at 17.6%, an increase of 2.2% over last year.
Overall, NPD places Apple as the 3rd largest US computer manufacturer, with a 5.9% U.S. market share, up 1.1% from last year's numbers.
According to a ChangeWave survey, Apple's laptop share gained 5% over the past 90 days and is roughly 5% higher than a year ago, now sitting at 17%. The survey also indicates that 28% of potential buyers over the next 90 days will be choosing an Apple Laptop, and 23% choosing an Apple desktop.
In addition to the survey's findings, NPD data reported by Macworld pins June 2007 notebook retail market share at 17.6%, an increase of 2.2% over last year.
Overall, NPD places Apple as the 3rd largest US computer manufacturer, with a 5.9% U.S. market share, up 1.1% from last year's numbers.
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59 months ago
Great to see the marketshare gaining. Hopefully Apple can keep up with rising demand and consumer expectations. There are also potential QA issues due to production scale which hopefully Apple remains on top of.
59 months ago
More job opportunities for me. :D
More Macs out there is a good thing for a number of reasons. ;)
59 months ago
More Macs out there is a good thing for a number of reasons. ;)
Still, being an Macintosh administrator and being able to handle nearly any out of warranty repair doesn't hurt either. :p
59 months ago
How could a machine with such crippled graphics sell so well? Could it be that Apple has a good idea of who their customer really is?
59 months ago
this is negative! more market share means more reason to development osX viruses, no?
59 months ago
this is negative! more market share means more reason to development osX viruses, no?
That's entirely debatable.
59 months ago
My question is when will developers start paying attention? Blackbaud, ArcView, QuickBooks (which is definitely not the same between Winsows and OS X), Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Glidepoint (USB Overdrive is not a substitute for real drivers), and a bunch more. Even SPSS and Palm (before they realized they have nothing to sell) abandoned Macs for a while.
Switching to a Mac is great, but having to kludge stuff that has been on the Windows platform for years could just as easily turn a lot of folks off after that first purchase.
Hell, I'd be happy if some of these folks even used Cider.
Switching to a Mac is great, but having to kludge stuff that has been on the Windows platform for years could just as easily turn a lot of folks off after that first purchase.
Hell, I'd be happy if some of these folks even used Cider.
59 months ago
Just waiting for those negative votes...!
They'll be there - probably from people complaining that someone snuck in another story about Apple computers rather than music players and telephones....
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