“In Q4 06, Apple market share in France was 3.3%, up from 2.6% in Q4 05. This is the best performance in France for Apple since Q1 2002,” MacGenration reports.
MacGenration reports, “Mac sales were up 31% over the previous quarter. As in the US, the Mac is growing faster than the Market. Average growth of the PC industry in France is 5.3%. Apple has strong results in France, better than the average in Europe. Apple Market Share in EMEA Market (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) during Q4/06 was only 2.1%.”
“France’s top Mac sellers are Mac notebook sales grew up 67%,” MacGenration reports. “For the entire year 2006, Apple accounted for 2.9% of the market in France.”
More information (in French) here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Christophe” for the heads up.]
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***Insert obligatory anti-French comment here***
Ahhhh les française les française…….
Cheese and a baguette and an MBP in an outdoor Bistro (with wireless internet access). Does it get any better than that?
Aw, come on. We all LOVE the French. Properly prepared, they’re delicious. (With apologies to W.C. Fields.)
yes it gets better:
if that bistro is not in france and is in the US effin A
Why do you think we have theese silly accents? Because we are French, English pig-dogs!
Oh la la! c’est vraiment bon cette nouvelle.
“it iz not becoz you arrr, it’z becoz I am”
The only good things about France are the accents attached to the hot women there.
And the fries. Those are good too.
And yet not a single Mac-related announcement from Apple in 2007. All rumors and speculation. Waiting is not easy, even if the news down the road makes it worth it. I want to spend from freaking money NOW!!!!
@Cynic821
Yeah so we can be exposed to drive-by shootings, people bitching that they thought a baguette was actually a cheese burger, squalling kids, plastic table tops and a wonderful view of the Denny’s and Arby’s across the street.
Really, who cares? No where except here would it occur to you to celebrate this tiny, fingernail hold on the market that belongs now and forever to the king: PC.
With numbers like this, PC makers ought to just call it quits.
“With numbers like this, PC makers ought to just call it quits.”
Yeah WOW just Wow!!!! Wooo Hoooo, … In a for or five years, MS may down to a 88% market share.. WOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!!
I’m moving to France for the summer, and taking my trusty TiBook 550.
France is awesome, and far more balanced that American lifestyles.
And, with this statistical tidbit, apparently they are smarter than Windows users,as well.
Vive la France! Pass that wine and stinky cheese, Francois!
I am announcing today that Steve has won, we’re shutting down – with only 97% of the French market how can we survive?
The Germans go south every few decades and strighten things out down there. If they aren’t at 5% by next year, then I’ll put in a call to Berlin.
We love our new Mac. The time saved not having to run anti-virus and anti-spyware allows me to consume mass quantities.
@ who cares
Ummm… Apple notebook sales up by 67%
With that growth rate, Apple’s tiny market share won’t be tiny for long will it…
We have all been focusing on Microsoft. But the casualties of a continued growth of Apple Mac sales include all the hardware vendors. They currently have no answer to the Apple juggernaut.
What will HP, Dell, Acer, Lenovo etc do to counter the loss of lucrative notebook sales?
If they lose confidence in Microsoft, perhaps they will begin developing their own operating systems.
HP could do that – they have the software expertise, and they have had their own flavour of Unix (HP-UX) for a long time now.
If Apple market share grows beyond 20% I predict that HP will release a corporate-flavoured, Unix-powered, desktop operating system to compete with Windows. In fact, I would not be at all surprised to discover that HP are already working on it.
If I am right, then it could be this that has Microsoft rattled… HP would be a formidable competitor for the corporate desktop. With a unix-based office package that can read and write MS format files, and a half-decent user interface, HP could present a real alternative.
If this keeps up and Apple’s growth continues to be 5x that of the PC, then in 20 years Apple’s grasp on the market will have grown to a whopping 06.17%.
Now, that ought to scare the pants off MSoft and the rest of the PC world.
The French Windoze users should just lay down their computers and surrender. The MacOS X special forces are coming!
Do the Math.
I did. Based on the growth rates quoted in the article (31% for Mac and 5.3% for PC), current marketshare numbers (3% Mac and 97% PC), Mac marketshare would overtake PC in 17 quarters.
That’s just over 4 years, Do the Math.
Simple reason—Windows PC sales were dampened because people were waiting for Vista.
Dion “The Germans go south every few decades and strighten things out down there. If they aren’t at 5% by next year, then I’ll put in a call to Berlin.”
Showing your ignorance there, D. France is west of Germany….
In 20 quarters (4 quarters = one year), Mac marketshare is 61.17%.
That should scare the PC world.
is it me or do I smell a lot of ignorant PC trolls on here today?
Go away trolls, go away….especially tose who flunked math in elementary school.
Va-t-en maudites especes de pas d’allure!
mais wee mon amis and we like ze white MacBooks so we can wave them in surrender