“Put Windows on a Mac, toss in many with Intel chips, mix with the public’s passion for the iPod—and you’ve got big market-share gains for Apple,” Arik Hesseldahl writes for BusinessWeek.
“In case you hadn’t heard, Apple’s Macs can now run Microsoft’s Windows. Also, by the end of the year—with luck, by the end of the summer—all Macs will be built with microprocessors from Intel (INTC). That, combined with the runaway success of the iPod music player, augurs a considerably brighter picture for Mac sales and worldwide market share starting about 2008,” Hesseldahl writes. “Charles Wolf of Needham and Co. says Apple could end up with a global PC market share north of 5% by 2011, compared with a 1.9% sliver in 2005. How does he reach that conclusion? He asked Windows users… Assuming that the Mac cannot run Windows applications, 4.3% indicated an interest in switching from a Windows PC to the Mac. That translates to about 90 people out of the 2,092 in the sample. When asked if they would switch to the Mac if it could run Windows, the percentage saying yes doubled to about 8%. Some of the people in the survey group owned an iPod. And here the results are stunning. In this category, 7.6% say they’d switch even if the Mac can’t run Windows. With Windows, that percentage swells to above 20%. One starts to see some statistical evidence that iPod is giving Mac the “halo effect” you’ve no doubt heard about.”
“Wolf stresses that he ‘bent over backwards’ to interpret the survey results conservatively. Even then, they suggest 772,000 Macs, about 17% of the 4.3 million units expected to be sold this year, will be purchased by people switching away from Windows, Wolf says. He bases that projection on forecasts for future PC sales growth from market research firm Interactive Data (IDC),” Hesseldahl writes. “But in the following two years the phenomenon gathers steam. His figures for 2007—the year the Intel transition is complete and Windows-ready Leopard launches—show 1.7 million Windows users switching to the Mac out of 6.7 million Macs sold, implying a 25% rate. The year after that shows nearly 3 million switchers, or about 29% of a total 10.2 million Macs sold… That’s more progress than Mac users have seen in many years.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we have always said, even as many short-sightedly threw in the towel, the war is not over. And, yes, we shall prevail. For the naysayers we trot out our favorite example once again: In 1929, Ford held just over 61% of the U.S. market for automobiles. GM’s market share stood at just 12%. Ford was thought to be invincible, with GM regarded as a niche auto maker. But, in 1936, just seven years later, Ford held 22% of the market for new automobiles while General Motors held a 43% share. No company is invincible. Not even Microsoft.
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I’ve helped switch a number of people in the past few years, but now I’m really noticing that kids in my family and friends of theirs are switching, too. These will translate to longterm user and buyers.
Cool stuff.
What this means is that the current dip inthe stock price is a golden opportunity to buy.
Over the years I’ve switched several… but it is getting easier all the time.
More and more are threatening that their ‘next’ computer will be a Mac.
Some said that last time round too… mmm
Magic word Future!
This news plus the “Vista is a memory hog” news plus the reviews that the MacBookPro is the best “Vista Ready” laptop and the iMac the best “Vista Ready” desktop make it a no brainer to guess that a combo of OS X switchers and people wanting decent Vista performance will increase Mac sales (though I hasten to suggest that Apple hardware running non-OS X be called something other than a Mac – perhaps an “Apple PC”?)
What the survey overlooks is that switchers will create even more switchers. Often, recent converts to anything become the best “sales people” around, making the effect actually an exponential situation.
Look for Mac to have 17% to 23% of the consumer market with a year!
I’ll believe it when I see it. We’ve heard for years that Apple’s marketshare was supposed to increase, and it’s been more or less flat. Perhaps the Intel move is the thing that will finally push them over the edge, but I won’t hold my breath.
Soon 100% of all computer users will be running Windows on their computers – whether it be a Mac or PC.
Steve Balmer thanks Steve JObs.
MDN the car analogy does not work.
Apple is making it so one can run Microsoft on its machines – how does that hurt Microsoft? It may hurt Dell or Gateway or Sony, but not Microsoft.
because people love their cars, but they don’t love their computers. That means they don’t HATE their computers, even if they should, and that means “good enough” is “good enough.”
Even Vista with bugs and viruses is “good enough.”
The Ford-GM comparison would only be valid if everyone changed to a different kind of road–but it wasn’t like that.
If Ford vanished the world would work the same. Microsoft is more entrenched.
Apple will stay in business, but most people will always choose Microsoft.
Hal,
Actually Apple is making it so one can run Windows applications on OSX. Boot Camp is just a Beta. Leopard will allow Windows apps natively, and yes, that’s gonna hurt Microsoft BIG TIME!
the intel thing is the REASON sales are flat instead of going up.
short term Intel impact = lower sales while everyone whimpers about loving IBM.
then that effect ends, but better yet, a new effect comes into play: people snapping up Intel macs.
I’m no Mac fan, but Intel is the best move they’ve made.
Agreed, the MDN analogy is wrong. Their analogy is more like people shifting from Dell to say Gateway while switching from Windows to OSX is more like changing the type of vehicle altogether.
If a conservative guesstimate is 1-in-5 Mac sales will be to an ex-Windows user, that certainly indicates market-share growth. Not mentioned is share of New Purchasers. When Apple stores and the Switchers Campaign were new, there were as many sales to the New To Computing crowd as there were to the Switchers crowd. Should this hold true, and should there be few reverse-switchers, then Apple’s sales would be 60% return customers (2%+ market share) plus 20% Switchers plus 20% New Owners. Possibly 60% growth in unit sales in a market growing by 10% to 15%. Even if you go extra-conservative and bring that down to 75%+13%+12% you end up with a 33% unit growth in a 16% market growth environment.
MDN is insanely optimistic with the Ford/GM analogy, but there’s no reason Apple can’t get to #3, #2, or even #1 manufacturer in a decade. But even reaching #1 in unit sales would not displace Windows as #1 OS and may not displace Linux as #2 OS. Many of those Macs will be running something other than OS X at least a part of most weeks.
I agree. Apple will grow a lot. Will it have more computers running OSX than MS does today?. No! Most of the gains will be in the consumer market. There are still large markets such as Latin America that Apple is pretty much ignoring.
Large corporations will live and die with Windows regardless of what OS Apple computers can run.
maczeus: “Actually Apple is making it so one can run Windows applications on OSX. Boot Camp is just a Beta. Leopard will allow Windows apps natively, and yes, that’s gonna hurt Microsoft BIG TIME!”
You do not know that or have proof of it. Wishful thinking.
And if Macs could run Windows apps without Windows OS then there is no longer any need for any more software written for Apple OS computers.
So everything goes Windows.
MDN – your Ford and GM market facts are total B.S.
Ford never had 61% of the market in 1929 – try 32% and that was after slipping the previous years.
In 1929 Ford’s production and market share doubles to 32% of the market, well ahead of Chevrolet; Hudson-Essex is third. Independent luxury car firms control 5% of the US market, their peak
1929 Production figures
1. Ford…………………………………1,507,132
2. Chevrolet………………………….. 1,328,605
3. Hudson/Essex……………………………300,962
4. Willys-Overland/Whippet………………….242,000
5. Pontiac/Oakland…………………………211,054
6. Buick………………………………….196,104
7. Dodge …………………………………………124,557
8. Nash…………………………………..116,622
MDN quit spreading the lies.
Let’s not be too big too soon. Bad karma!
Slowly does it, nice and even and structured.
One step at a time.
We have to go slow, because the people we are trying to impress are slow. They are windoze followers. Operative word being followers, that’s why M$ is so popular because 95% of people on this planet are followers.
Apple, take the time to show them the way and they will follow.
Leo
Jesus Randy Deems, get a life!!!!
I bet you are a social handgrenade?
Jan and Dean,
And if Macs could run Windows apps without Windows OS then there is no longer any need for any more software written for Apple OS computers.
So everything goes Windows.
Your logic is flawed!
If macs can run windows apps without windows, how can everything go windows?
Please re-read your statement and have another go!
Big Peter – so you like believing the FUD MDN pumps out? Why aren´t you criticizing MDN´s faulty info instead attacking the person that found the truth?
After reading Randy´s post I did a little looking around and the reason that Ford´s market share did fall in the late 1920s was because Ford refused to bring out any new car models – sticking with the Model T and A. It would not change.
Microsoft changes – it copies Apple.
I am surprised that none of us here have ever looked into MDN´s Ford GM markets share hocus-pocus before. We all sheep believing anything MDN spits out?
Big Pete – confused you are.
Today 98% of the computer market runs Windows-version software.
If Macs will now be able to run Windows-version software (without having to go to the expense or effort to actually install Windows OS) then everyone can run the Windows-version software.
Then there is no need for Adobe (or other software maker) to make a Mac-version of the software if the Mac can run the Windows version, too.
Within the next 5 years the only one making Apple-version software will be Apple.
A little pre 1929 Ford history for MDN to ruminate over:
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On June 4, 1924, the ten millionth Model T Ford left the Highland Park factory, which would remain the main facility for T production. While the flivver outsold its nearest competitor by a six-to-one margin that year, its unbridled run was nearing an unforeseen conclusion. After years of conceding the low end of the market to Ford, another automaker was setting its sights on that very sector.
At the beginning of the decade, General Motors was an awkward conglomerate of car companies and parts suppliers, managed more for the sake of its whipsaw stock-price than for efficiencies in automaking. In the middle of the decade, though, a revitalized GM, under the brilliant leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., began to offer inexpensive Chevrolets with amenities that the Model T lacked. Instead of the sturdy but antiquated planetary transmission, it had a smooth three-speed. The market began to shift; price and value ceased to be paramount factors. Styling and excitement suddenly counted to the customer. Even though the Model T cost a mere $290 in the mid-twenties, dealers clamored for a new Ford that would strike the fancy of the more demanding and sophisticated consumers.
But Henry Ford refused even to consider replacing his beloved Model T. Once, while he was away on vacation, employees built an updated Model T and surprised him with it on his return. Ford responded by kicking in the windshield and stomping on the roof. “We got the message,” one of the employees said later, “As far as he was concerned, the Model T was god and we were to put away false images.” Only one person persisted in warning him of the impending crisis: his son, Edsel, who had been installed as president of the Ford Motor Company during the dividend trial and its aftermath in 1919. It was the first of many arguments that Edsel would lose, as the once adoring relationship between the two deteriorated into distrust and disrespect on Henry’s part and woeful disillusionment on Edsel’s.
The Chevrolet continued to take sales from the dour Model T. By 1926, T sales had plummeted, and the realities of the marketplace finally convinced Henry Ford that the end was at hand. On May 25, 1927, Ford abruptly announced the end of production for the Model T, and soon after closed the Highland Park factory for six months. The shutdown was not for retooling: there was no new model in the works. In history’s worst case of product planning, Henry sent the workers home so that he could start to design his next model. Fortunately, Edsel had been quietly marshaling sketches from the company’s designers, and he was ready and able to work with his father on producing plans for the new car, called the Model A. It was a success from its launch in December 1927, and placed the company on sound footing again.
The Ford Motor Company, having survived its own crisis in the twenties, was one of only forty-four U.S. automakers left in 1929, out of the hundreds that had entered the fray since the beginning of the century. That year, Ford, General Motors, and the newly formed Chrysler Corporation — known then and now as the Big Three — accounted for 80 percent of the market.
More info:
The Ford company lost market share during the 1920s due to the rise of consumer credit.
The company’s goal was to produce an inexpensive automobile that any worker could afford. To keep prices low, Ford (at the behest of its owner, Henry Ford) offered few features. General Motors and other competitors began offering automobiles in more colors, with more features and luxuries. They also extended credit so consumers could buy these more expensive automobiles. Ford resisted following suit, insisting that such credit would hurt the consumer and the economy. Due to market constraints, however, the company finally gave in and followed its competitors’ lead when on December 2, 1927 Ford unveiled the redesigned Ford Model A and retired the Model T.
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company
we shall prevail?
jesus christ this site keeps getting worse and worse. well, there’s some of us who visit this site that recall days when this site was a great place to read mac news without endless commentary and pervasive fanboi-ism.
we fight to see those days return.
the war is not over, but we shall not prevail.