“Technology research firm Gartner Inc. raised Thursday its 2005 worldwide personal-computer shipment forecast to more than 200 million units, due to greater strength in the mobile PC market than previously anticipated,” Rex Crum reports for MarketWatch. “Gartner said it now expects PC shipments to reach 202.1 million units for the year, up 10.2% from 2004. Gartner had previously forecast PC growth of 9.9%.”
“George Shiffler, a Gartner PC analyst, said mobile PCs are behind the sector’s growth. Gartner estimates that mobile PC shipments will climb 26.5% over a year ago, compared to 4.6% growth for desktop PCs during 2005,” Crum reports.
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MacDailyNews Note: Apple shipped 1,070,000 Macintosh units worldwide in the first quarter quarter of 2005 (Apple’s fiscal Q2 2005). According to Gartner, in the U.S. market, in the first quarter of 2005, Apple moved into the fifth position in the U.S. market, ahead of Toshiba. Apple’s PC shipments in the United States increased 45.1 percent in the first quarter of 2005.
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6.000.000 will be Macs
Unless, professor, you meant to type a comma (,) instead of a period (.) you believe that only 6 Macintosh computers are to be sold this year.
Wow. I would expect better news coming from a professor….
Sorry, JJ I was in a harry. I mean 9,000,000 all in all, and 6 for me
Good one Prof!
I’m guessing that Professor is from Europe where they use decimals where we use commas and vice-versa. Try not to be so US-centric.
I just want to know what harry thought about the professor being in him… to each his own, I suppose!!
can somebody who is actually working at a software developer tell me if they look at stuff like ‘installed base’?
200–> 202 million means the Mac unit shipment number is likely to waver a little
I like how Steve Jobs mentioned the Mac home marketshare as ‘between 5 and 10%’
the Bank Branch and Kwik-E-mart market is not for Macs
At my work they’re still using some ghetto GUI-less PC jr look-a-likes. I shit you not..
Unless he is in Europe, in which case six thousand is written as 6.000,00 (or in the US, it is written as 6,000.00). I was helping a guy in my lab with this issue in since he has a French computer and couldn’t get Excel to switch without changing the way all numbers are represented.
ME:
Umm, no.
English System or Metric System they still use commas in their numbers…
Sorry, we software developers don’t give a ticker’s cuss about market share and sales. We care about memory leaks, dangling references, subpixel accuracy, GPU acceleration, and so on. I think you’re looking for a marketing person.
JJ:
Umm, yes.
In much of Europe, they use a period as the thousands separator and a comma for the decimal point. This has nothing to do with the metric system. It is the way they format numbers.
This may be a shock to you, but English is not the native language in Europe either.
To be exact, at least in wide parts of Europe six million would be written 6,000.000. Six billion would be 6.000,000.000 and so on.
By the way, in most European languages a billion is called “milliard”, while “billion” denotes a million squared.
Globalisation is complicated, isn’t it?
JJ:
Umm, yes.
In France they prefer to use a blank space, in Spain they use a period separator and a comma as a decimal point. In almost all Latin America (except Mexico and Peru, as far as I know), they use a period separator and a comma as a decimal point.
And billion is a million of millions (twelve zeros) everywhere except for the US.
I just might buy 6. also.. or maybee 600,000,000,000…. wouldn’t that be cool
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JJ,
To see the numbers thing in action, do this: Apple Menu>System Preferences>International>Formats>Region and select Belgium. Then look at the example in the “Numbers” box to see how they format their numbers… It shows “1.234,56”
Still not convinced,? Then put a check in the “Show All Regions” check box and then select German, Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch (and many others), and any of the countries sub listed and you will see that all show numbers the same way.
Now try Afrikaans, French, and other languages to see examples of languages that use a space.
sarmona,
The chiefly British use of “billion” meaning “one million times one million” is dated and no longer in OFFICIAL use, though it is still common vernacular with people who learnt the numbering system before the British monetary system was decimalised. Both systems were originally devised by the French and either way is (in)correct elsewhere in the world.
Actually, it is more accurate if your audience is international to say “thousand millions” or “million millions,” or “thousand million millions,” or “million million millions,” etc. when referring to numbers larger than one million since there is NO INTERNATIONAL standard. For instance, a ‘British’ trillion is the third power of a million, while the ‘American’ one is the fourth power of a thousand, and the ‘American’ system continues out of sync with the arithmetic.
Remember, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Read an encyclopaedia sometime.
Oh, and no, the above are not typos… It is Oxford English.