“We have all heard about the ‘iPod halo effect’ where iPod owners increasingly are buying Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL) computers. Well, it appears that the iPhone has kicked that effect into high gear. First, Pacific Crest Securities has used NPD data to claim that Apple computer unit sales are up 101% year over year, with revenue up 108%. That is a a lot of Mac and MacBook business goodness that we can relate to; we were responsible for three MacBook and MacBook Pro purchases ourselves in that period. Then, we have data from Net Applications showing that Apple computer market share has risen two points in the last six months to more than 6% world-wide,” Carl Howe (Blackfriars Communications) writes for SeekingAlpha.
MacDailyNews Note: As Howe links to MacDailyNews, we will reiterate: Net Applications’ “Market Share” uses a unique methodology for collecting this data. The company collects data from the browsers of site visitors to their exclusive on demand network of small to medium enterprise live stats customers. The sample size for these sites is more than 40,000 urls. The information published is an aggregate of the data from this network of hosted website statistics. The site unique visitor and referral information is summarized on a monthly basis. The websites in ther population represent dozens of countries in regions including North America, South America, Western Europe, Australia / Pacific Rim and Parts of Asia. Different companies uses different methodologies, so the actual percentage figures (6.38% for Apple Mac) aren’t as meaningful as the trends they show. The important point is that Net Applications’ measurements show that Mac’s share continues to increase – up over 2 percentage points in just the last 181 days (Aug. 31, 2006 to Feb. 28, 2007). Apple’s 6.38% is simply a snapshot of Mac’s share of all computers accessing those websites monitored by Net Applications last month.
Howe continues, “And then we have securities firms like Goldman Sachs predicting that iPod sales, despite their first quarter seasonal dip, are also rising year-over-year and could approach 11 to 12 million units in the first calendar quarter of 2007. And finally, we have a survey done by Morgan Stanley noting that iPhone interest is actually larger than what the market currently anticipates, with 20% of the respondents who had heard about the iPhone and its features being ‘extremely interested in purchasing one.'”
“What does all this data mean? It means that a virtuous marketing cycle is dramatically improving Apple’s already robust business,” Howe writes.
Full article here.
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I bought a black MacBook 3 weeks ago, so I did my part.
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I’m waiting for Leopard. Then I’ll buy my new computer.
I’m waiting for Godot!
I want a new MacBook Pro to replace my PowerBook! Does that count?
Me too.
2 new iMacs on my house since September, 20 and a 17.
already got my C2D MBP 17″ and iMac this year, if they are really putting out a 12″ or smaller MBP, I’ll be all over that.
I needed a laptop. Bought one. I’m waiting for Leopard.
What it means is that Apple sales, when Leopard is released, will be hot while Vista sales are about as cold as Ann Coulter’s bony ass.
Oh….and am waiting for the next revision of MBP 17 inch. I suspect it will be the same time as Leopard so I can kill to birds with one stone.
Who’s Ann Coulter?
Worth waiting for?
I now have 3 macs at home: 20″ and 17″ imac plus a 15.4″ macbook pro…I love it.
Got a MacBook for Xmas and a new Airport Extreme. Will get leopard when it’s ready too. Would really like the AppleTV but hesitate on first generation products. Probably wait until May, then get one…
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Got 2 iPods nano for Christmas, 1 each for my twin daughters. One of those just bought herself a black Macbook for school and for chatting with friends. My “year 2001” G4 500 MP is still going strong (after many upgrades)…
Gee i hope Machopeful and those other Windows trolls are reading this…
Are you sure you’re not waiting for iGodot?
I’m still trying to get these boots to fit.
Apple is addictive!
We switched in July, 20″ imac, got our university student daughter a Macbook in December,
for xmas, the wife got a 30gb iPod, another daughter a shuffle, the same universty student recieved a Nano.
Got a work bonus last week, and ordered a mini 500gb external hard drive, Airport Extreme, and a Macbook for the wife.
We have been tracking FedX all day, left for delivery this morning at 8:05.
Soon a new Apple TV and 2ea iPhones, and we will be set,…………….until Apple come out with something new!
I’m still waiting for Vista.
Didi: It’s already here?
Gogo: Where?
Didi: It was here, I think. Didn’t you see it?
Gogo: I saw something, but it sure wasn’t a great Vista.
Was it?
Didi: I don’t know anymore. Perhaps if we wait a little longer.
Gogo: Yes. Where’s my hat?
@Godot….in a single word….no.
new iMac, Iis’ be needin’ some new iMacs aaarh!
Buster,
Take your derogatory hateful remarks against Ann Coulter somewhere else. This is a Mac forum, remember?!
My new iMac 24″ is on its way, to sit next to my new 23″ HD. This is going to be a sweet setup – Lightroom on the 23″ and Photoshop running on the main monitor. I can hardly wait!
-c
@ R
Wow, fending off derogatory remarks about Ann Coulter. Maybe if she shut her uninformed, small minded, vindictive little trap people wouldn’t be so mad. Trust me, she can take it. ;P And whenever the topic turns to politics around here, the boards light up for 4 and 5 pages, and I’l bet you MDN really likes the hits, which is why they chime in to stoke the fires up with anonymous postings.
But I digress. What were we talking about?
-c
Oh yeah, Ann Coulter is a waste of human flesh and nice hair.
;P
MW: ‘blood’ (makes noise)