Apple Computer Croatia official Nina Bulovec, during a presentation of the latest Apple Mac computers and software packages, reported a 47-percent increase in sales, “higher than Apple’s worldwide sales averages,” according to Croatia Today. The positive momentum has continued into 2006, with first quarter sales up 40-percent year-over-year, with 19-percent more Macs and six times more iPods being sold versus the same quarter last year.
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From 100 computers sold the previous year to 147? Is this market worth writing about? Just wondering…
no jake, all that matters is usa – obviously, they rule the world dont they? ? (sarcasm)
Cool!!
100 to 147!! Apple found a nich untouched by the likes of any other computer company.
Go Apple, die “Mike” (da MacDude)
Great. So what’s the total market share then?
do you know where Croatia is? Yestaerday I was calling with a sales guy from bif SW company he didn´t even know where Prag or Bratislava is.
No comment. “Genius”
It’s spelt ‘Prague’
I love Croatia, best beaches in the world. Don’t believe all the crap you hear about it and go see for yourself. I particarly recommend Dubrovnik.
At least someone is buying Macs somewhere in the word.
So what if they sell few Macs. The fact that they’re on the increase in a market that probably has been all-but void of Macs is the interesting thing.
Jake, you beat me to it.. that’s exactly what I thought of when I read this..
RS, it’s spelt “spelled”
Prag is a legit way to spell Praha, btw.
Go Croatia!!!
1) Croatia’s economy is growing massively as everyone is expecting it to join the EU shortly.
2) This increase is being mirrored all over Europe. Apple is leaping back to relevance over here.
3) All markets are worth writing about. Every Mac sold means more Mac software titles.
This is good news, but this is only the start of something much bigger. Expect even bigger growth when next year’s figures are released.
From i heart macdude:
RS, it’s spelt “spelled”
Nothing wrong with spelt, unless you’ve been subjected to the American education straitjacket.
Shouldn’t Croatia be working on things like better irrigation for crops, criminal justice system, etc. before worrying about how many computers they have?
No knock on Croatia, but this reminds me of the confusion people have when discussing relative versus absolute risk. If you have a certain base line risk factor of contracting a disease of 2 out of 1,000, and taking some form of drug cuts it to 1 in a 1,000, you have cut the risk in half. The point is, though, it didn’t amount to much of a risk to begin with.
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Looks like that ethnic cleansing managed to wipe out a few Windoze users.
Go Milosevic!
Great. How’s Apple doing in BFE?
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Seriously, this is good news for both Apple and Croatia. Congratulations.
Peace.
Noah, it’s spelled “straight jacket”.
Noah, it’s spelled “straight jacket”.
Sorry, but that is one way it is not spelled, at least not in US English. Both “straitjacket” and “straightjacket” are acceptable spellings.
Some of you may not be aware of the dictionary available to OS X 10.4 users. Select a word, do control – mouse down, select “Look Up in Dictionary” from the pop-up menu.
In Safari you can also select Edit – Spelling – Check Spelling as You Type. That should alert you to spelling errors, but not to grammar errors so abundant on this site.
Here’s that grammar checker we need so badly here in MDN !!
Grammarian PRO X-Spelling and Grammar Checking for Mac
Add grammar to your spelling wars!
Hoorah for British spellings!
And all those who defend them.
You can also get the dictionary widget-esque thing by mousing-over a word (in any Carbon app) and holding ctrl+alt+d.
(what’s that? we call it English because it’s from England! and they still speak it there? THEY SPELL COLOR WITH A U!?…madness)
Jake and IT Guy ….. you know for a fact that it’s 100 now 147 … obviuosly it is more than that ….. I don’t know how much more and neither do you … flippant attitude on your part …
Well the cheapest imac there costs about $2000 (that’s intel imac 17″) and with the average monthly pay of about $750 (no increase there) I don’t see who’s buying all those macs. If Apple could match the prices to those in the US I assume everyone would buy a Mac
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crops and wars, they must be pesants and who cares. who cares about the mid west, detroit, and the floods in the south (you guys didnt even care about your own).
Its a very well educated country, and an excellent holiday venue, and a better place to live than most
It shows that the people are on to it when they have cottoned onto the fact that the mac is the way to go. if the US could get those numbers then perhaps then we could make judgements on the intelligence of the people.
Leave Croatia alone save your cheap jokes for the minorities