“The popularity of Apple Computer’s iPod digital music players is helping it sell more Macs, but so far it hasn’t been enough to spark a rise in the company’s share of the personal computer market,” Kasper Jade and Katie Marsal report for Apple Insider.
“According to research firm Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 57 million units in the first quarter of 2006, representing a 13.1 percent increase over the same period last year. But in that time, Apple’s share of the worldwide market slipped from 2.2 percent to a mere 2.0 percent,” Jade and Marsal report. “Similarly, Apple’s share of the personal computer market in the United States also remains relatively flat at 3.6 percent. Although this figure is down from 3.8 percent in the first quarter of 2005, Gartner’s data indicates that Apple gained one tenth of a percent in share over the fourth quarter of 2005.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Q1 2006 (and Q2, too – no figures for that quarter, yet) were in the heart of the Intel transition. Let’s see what happens from here on out.
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