“Microsoft has on a number of occasions reported that Vista sales are strong, higher than expected, and that Vista is doing much better than XP did when it was launched. What it never talks about is how Vista is affecting the Apple Mac OS market. There certainly seems to be evidence that the Macintosh is only getting more popular, despite the launch of Vista,” Ruben Francia writes for VISTA.BLORGE.com.
“In April, Apple said it sold a record 1.52 million Macs in the quarter that Vista debuted. Apple executives boasted that Macs were ‘clearly gaining market share’ as sales for the quarter grew three times faster than the over all worldwide computer market, up 10.9 percent, according to research firm IDC,” Francia reports.
“Another fact worth mentioning is the number of people surfing the Web using a Mac has doubled in the past eight months. Measurements from WebSideStory and rival Net Applications put Apple’s Mac OS X at close to or just over 6 per cent of all machines in the US that connected to the web last month,” Francia reports.
“Since August, the percentage of online Macs running Apple’s operating system has climbed from the long-flat 3 per cent to 5.6 per cent, according to Geoff Johnston, an analyst at WebSideStory. Net Applications data, which splits the Mac’s share between computers running the PowerPC version of Mac OS and those with an Intel edition of the operating system, pegged the total share at 6.2 per cent for April,” Francia reports.
Francia writes, “There seems to be ample evidence that Vista is doing nothing to dampen the Macintosh revival, with the new version of Max OS, Leopard, almost upon us, this is unlikely to change in the near future.”
Full article here.
“That’s not a fact, thats an opinion, loosely based on a fact.”
No, sorry it’s fact. Microsoft is outselling Apple 20 to 1. If your favorite sports team scored one point for every 20 their opponent did, you’d say that their ass was being handed to them on a plate. If they lost every year for the last 20 years. You’d say that they were a bunch of losers.
“This means that following the progression that’s occurring in the market, Mac will surpass Windows at some time in the future.”
That would be true if growth went on forever. You sound just like the FireFox and Linux guys did when they were going to take over the world by now. The truth is all products with tiny share have some scope to grow, but at some point that growth tapers off and stops. For the last 3 quarters Mac sales have been flat or shown negative growth.
So to reiterate, Apple is getting their ass handed to them on a plate.
No sorry, it IS an opinion…
and Re your so called fact; announcing 40M copies of Vista shipped to stores around the world amounts to nothing more than a clever marketing ploy. One intent on masking the fact that their monopoly has clearly been compromised for the first time in 10 years. Each percent of their user-base that is lost represents a huge threat to the future of their empire, and you’re the only one here who doesn’t ‘get’ what’s being referred to. Reality my ass, your either ignorant or deceitful.
Oh yeah, I could care less whether or not Apple increases its market share, seeing how effective they have been in building great products (and how well they’re doing financially) I just want them to keep the incredible software /hardware coming.