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To: Edward Boghosian who wrote (15595)	7/15/1998 6:41:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Regarding market share the problem is that it is taken by most analysts as percent of units sold, not percent of units already in the market plus new units. That leaves analysts open to make the same claim, ie. that Apple is not really increasing marketshare even if the numbers indicate that. They can simply say Apple is selling to it's core users at a faster pace relative to Wintel due to the pent of upgrade demand that exists in the Apple market. Hence my opinion it will take 3 qtrs or so of increasing revenue and marketshare before analysts stop using tired old lines regarding Apple. Don't count on analysts helping the stock. I doubt it will happen. Rich