The new products are awesome, the next OS will be so "cool", but in listening to Steve's message I noted the following:
With 157 stores during the last Quarter the Apple stores had 17 MILLION visitors! (for each store this equates to around 109,000 for the three months, or around 1200 per day)!! Of the Mac sales last quarter, 50% of them were NEW to Mac! Last quarter the growth rate of PC's was 6% to 7% (hard to tell on the chart) Last quarter the growth rate for Mac's was 16% to 17% (hard to tell on the chart) Mac notebook market share of ALL U.S. retail sales was 6% in January, doubling in just six months to 12%!! So, good news indeed, and with all the Gee Whizz of the introductory products and software these numbers may have been overlooked! John R. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060809/659fe2d0/attachment.html
