“Apple Computer saw its personal computer shipments jump considerably during the first quarter, as we reported Friday. The numbers got even better this week,” John G. Spooner writes in the CNET Personal Computers Blog.
“That’s because IDC, which published its first quarter PC shipment figures last Friday, left out a chunk of Apple shipments from its U.S. tally. It said at the time that Apple turned out 450,000 units in the United States during the quarter. But on Monday it quietly revised that figure upward to 565,000. The increase in Apple’s unit shipments bumped it up to a 3.9 percent share of the market, making it the fifth largest computer maker in the U.S. for the quarter,” Spooner writes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: On April 15th, Gartner reported 571,000 Mac units shipped in the U.S., so now IDC’s new Mac numbers don’t look so out of place.
[Thanks to MDN reader “TheRealist” for the link.]
[UPDATE: 11:40am ET: fixed headline typo: changed “chuck” to “chunk.”]
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Conspiracy! Flame! Flame! AAAAHHHHH!
Poor Chuck, always left out…
Yeah, but of course all the analyts are going to use the old numbers, if they haven’t already. Shame really, oh well.
Why’s everyone always picking on me?
OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
…now Apple’s stock will fall even more!
Woohoo! At 4% now…here we come 10%!
Gee MDN, it’s good to know that you thank people for links when it’s good news but it took you almost a full day to post the problems with Java and the 10.3.9 update…
Filter much?
IBM shipped out only 62,000 more units than Apple. Next quarter and Apple should be in the four spot.
2005: 7% share
2006: 14% share
2007: 20% share
(don’t worry, is the last time… until Christmas 2005)
Hey, bad news bear — I don’t use filters on my smokes. Noooooo. The quality leaf doesn’t come with de filters, at least not in my preferred cigars! Yeh-hesssss. I think MDN usually goes filterless too.
Maybe you should filter your thoughts before they spill onto de page!
Apple market share predictions (avg. over entire year):
5% for 2005
10% for 2006
15% for 2007
(though I hope professor is right…)
Triumph… go poop on yourself…
What idiots…
And they’re paid to make these mistakes….
“Whooops” they say… whatever. Morons
I wonder where the “tipping point” is, where Apple’s sales would really start to grow.
There’s a saying from the military: Lead, follow, or get out of the way! After experiencing Apple’s Bad Old Days (much of the 90’s), it feels pretty damned good to see Cupertino in the lead again. Almost as good as it feels to see anal-ysts “revise” sales numbers significantly in Apple’s favor.
Sounds like the early ’90s again when so many developers jumped ship due to reports like this from hardware and software groups controlled by MS.
They would show one statistic in the main report that the IT and Corperate world would read, and then next month quietly revise the figures.
Also during that time, Almost ALL CD shipments that had programs PC and Mac programs were listed under PC shipments, giving a greately distorted view.
That was done quite intentional and exposed as such in the mid ’90s, after the damage was done.