Thanks for those sales figures. It's refreshing to see a post about Apple's relative market share rather than about how much the Dock sucks.
While I'm sure nobody at Apple is proud of having sunk to a 2.35% market share in the first place, at least the decline has been stopped.
I'm also glad that Apple's iPod has been such a shocking success, since the PC market has stagnated (actually a 1.75% y/y shipment decline). I predict that it will not be long before the iPod is responsible for a larger share of Apple's earnings than Macintosh desktops. We'll have to wait to see if Apple's future digital appliance ventures are equally successful.
Question for the forum: If Apple could somehow pull a rabbit out of a hat next year, and once again produce a machine that had better benchmarks (Photoshop, video compression, number crunching, etc.) than the fastest PC, would Apple then gain market share? If so, where, desktops or servers? Education, home, or business?
Dave |
