Re: Mac shipments up 12% [Was: focus!]

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

Gartner has the overall PC market up 11% last quarter, so this isn't
as impressive as it sounds.

http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/gartner_apple_sees_154_percent_in_year_over_year_mac_sales/

Still, the 4.6% overall market share in that article is the highest
I've seen cited for Apple in years.

Luis

On 7/20/06, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> <quote who="Jeff Waugh">
>
> > <quote who="Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller">
> >
> > > Actually I have to say we should stop idealizing Apple that much, they
> > > are a company which basically has gone from being the desktop leader to
> > > today being a fringe player. They have survived partly by clinging onto
> > > a couple of niches like graphical design and to some degree education.
> >
> > That was true five years ago.
>
> Good timing:
>
>   Macintosh shipments were up 12 percent compared with last year, Apple said
>   on Wednesday during its third-quarter earnings call.
>
>   ...
>
>   Macs accounted for 55 percent of Apple's revenue during the third quarter,
>   ended July 1, said Peter Oppenheimer, the company's chief financial
>   officer. Notebook shipments and revenue both increased by 61 percent, and
>   Apple believes it doubled its share of the notebook market in retail
>   channels, he said, citing data from research firm NPD.
>
>   About half the Macs sold at Apple's own retail stores during the quarter
>   were bought by people who had never owned a Mac before, Oppenheimer said.
>
>   ...
>
>   Gartner and IDC reported PC market share numbers on Wednesday, and overall
>   shipment growth was only around 10 percent worldwide. Apple's 12 percent
>   shipment growth outpaced the market during what is considered the slowest
>   quarter of the year.
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Macs_see_growth_spurt/0,2000061702,39264094,00.htm
>
> - Jeff
>
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