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To: Don Green who wrote (44463)	4/30/2005 3:49:16 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213173

>>The point is can the $500 computer continue to be the driving force in Mac sales or will is it back to the sales to Mac upgraders.<< Don - A garbled sentence, that, but I think I see what you were driving at. Calculations of market share aren't affected by whether the computers sold are upgrades, switches, or whatever. If Apple's sales grow faster than the competition's sales, Apple's market share increases. Simple as that. Of course, two consecutive quarters of growth don't necessarily constitute a trend. Moreover, there is likely to be a certain ebb and flow, and one can't expect sales growth to remain constant. I should point out, however, that one of the two quarters of market share growth that Apple has just booked occurred before the introduction of the Mac Mini. - Allen