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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- > linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ > > What did the sausage say to the tomato at breakfast? > "There's not mushroom this morning, is there?" > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
