“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.
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iPhone OS is full blown OSX! MicroS#*t is still in the dark. The OS war is so NOT over; it just started! On the mobile front! Winblow CE is going to DIE, bitch!
Windows CE (now rebranded.. again.. by MS to “Windows Mobile”) is already dead.. it just doesn’t know it yet.
I expect Apple to expand OS X far beyond the iPhone into MANY embedded products and markets.. wait a few years and just watch.
MDN keyword “Spring” as in this is going to be a Spring to watch!
oooohhhh sounds like you belong the AC fan club. Hey R…have you kicked a faggot today? Whoops…looks like I will have to go to rehab now. I mean I dodn’t mean queer, I meant ummmm I meant wuss…yeah thats it. Thats the ticket.
Twit.
You are right, this is a Mac forum.
Go Apple!
Ann Coulter is the one whose mere name spins up liberals (esp. on MDN boards) to the rafters. It’s kinda fun to watch, even though the topic gets trashed. And Chrissy’s right (or left, I guess) – at least about one thing – she does have great hair.
And Godot – you were better as an MST3K joke than a play.
I own 17 Macs starting with a LC575… I havent got a Intel one just yet, but theres always tomorrow.
I’m not altogether on anyone’s side, because no one is altogether on *my* side.
@Godot
Here in Canada we have what one may call…class. This has NOTHING to do with liberal or conservative leanings. It has everything to do with decency and respect neither of which AC has. She can call an American presidential hopeful a faggot and YOU don’t find this offensive? I do not care what political stand you may hold or your sexual leanings or your views on social wlefare, if you support this sort of trash talk, then this speaks volumens about your personality.
If this happens up here, people are generally unanimous in their condemnation.
Oh yeah and…Go Apple.
Go south, Chrissy – it feels like downhill…
Easy there, Buster… I know all you Canadians speak with one voice, and I find it heartening that everyone up there sings in unison with the cosmos. Down here, however, it’s hotter. we bitch. We gripe. We complain. We call people faggots, even when they’re not gay. We become ambulance chasers down in North Carolina, like John Edwards.
It’s fun, man – you should try it just once. The next time some nice Canadian walks up and wishes you all the best in life, just call him a faggot for no good reason. It’s not fair, exactly, but it sure is a hoot.
Lighten up.
Is this a forum for Mac discussion? Okay, just checkin’.
…and by the way, all political hacks are fags.
My new 20-inch 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo iMac is by far the fastest and most satisfying Mac I’ve ever owned in the 22 years I’ve been using Macs. When I occasionally house-sit for a friend who has a top-of-the-line PC, I have to laugh. Saying that the Mac user experience is “better than Windows” is like saying that a Ferrari is “better than” a Ford Fiesta: an understatement without equal!
I’m waiting for a refresh of the Mac Mini before I buy one. The current configuration has been out for a long time, and I expect that the very day I buy one they’ll announce the refresh … so I’m probably the one that is delaying the Mac Mini refresh … SORRY!! 😀
Listen – Ann Coulter is off limits. Know why? She’s no do-gooder like Bono. Only do-gooders are allowed to be hateful against. And Ann Coulter – she doesn’t give a rats ass about the poor. So lay off…
It’s not just you, Rev – I’m waiting for C2D Minis and Leopard before I put one in the upstairs office. It’s only n speeds from now on.
(I would’ve posted sooner, but I just regained consciousness from the blink-ad-induced seizure… thanks MDN)
“Only do-gooders are allowed to be hateful against.”
Hateful against what?
Oh, and Bono’s a faggot.(See how easy, Buster?)
Ann Coulter is a self loathing dyke.
to: Pat
If you sell your Powerbook to someone who uses it to replace Windows PC, of course it counts.
If all the people who own 3-5 years old Macs would sell ’em to people who don’t have Macs, the marketshare would jump up like a muh’fu**a.
My friend is currently in between of pismo and iBook.
MW: plan
And here’s a special replay of tonight’s left-wing tantrum:
“…as cold as Ann Coulter’s bony ass…”
“…uninformed, small minded, vindictive…”
“…a waste of human flesh…”
“…have you kicked a faggot today?”
“…doesn’t give a rats ass about the poor…
“…Ann Coulter is a self loathing dyke.”
If you don’t leave liberals in a sputtering impotent rage, you’re not doing it right.
– Ann Coulter
The Age of Apple dawns
Again?
First the Apple II in the 70’s.
Then the Lisa, the Mac, desktop publishing, and “1984” in the 80’s.
Now the i-killers today. iPod, iPhone, iTunes, iMac, iLife, TV, etc.
Maybe the third time really is the charm?
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GO APPLE!!
Close to the mark, has it right.
Liberals get their panties in wad and then spout worst things than the word “faggot”.
WHat a bunch of hypocrites.
Later.
Ok here goes…@ TakeCare and Close to the Mark, you are both a bunch of faggots.
@Godot, nope….its not really as much fun as you make it out to be. I am not a prude and I don’t have a rod up my assd. But for the rest of you that didn’t read my post properly, (you can read can’t you?), its not about politics. I have voted conservative myself a number of times but that is beside the point. People in the public eye like Coulter does this for self promotion. Denigraating people in public is just plain low class.
Spouting all this pollitical ideology and ignoring human decency puts you right there with her. If it wasn’t for low class she would have no class at all.
G-spank….I assume you were trying to make a point but for the life of me, I can’t figure it out.
Go Apple.
“Merican poli-ticks = a blood sucking pain in the arse… The hypothetical two party system is impotent because of the buyouts of the pollys by big & little interests… You have no real political voice. Think about it. You have money – you have a modicum of influence. And all of you Republican supporters… how many of you have been under fire in Iraq or Viet Nam (if you want to go back that far)? If you haven’t shyte your pants while under fire then STFU about how great this war is serving ‘Merica. Ann Coulter is a bright woman who has no class. Just like men and women on both sides of the isle. She absolutely knows how to push people’s buttons. As do some of the trolls here.
As far as Mac dominance in the world… there are actually only two types of personal computer users: The bright intelligent sophisticated forward thinking well-educated creative Apple Mac users and those that wish they were. The true installed base is over 20%.
It really is that simple. Remember that Bill Gates actually owned a Mac when they first came out and prefered it to the world of green screens and no graphics. That is on video.
I find it interesting that Windblows users think that ALL Mac users are liberals. Is that because a liberal is defined as someone who is bright, intelligent, sophisticated, forward thinking, well-educated and creative? And a conservative is someone who is not?
Some of us are liberals and some of us are conservatives and some don’t really give a fat rats (or maybe you want to say “faggots” there) arse about “show” politics. Oh, and some of us REALLY don’t care about ‘Merican politics… we have enough bureaucratic BS in our own countries to contend with.
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As for me and Macs – been using since 1984 and had a Lisa before that. It is in my veins and I refuse to go into rehab!!!
Apple & Mac not Politics Please!!!!
For that crap you want http://www.politicsdailynews.com
All this over Ann Coulter? At best, she’s the political equivalent to Britney Spears. Only, she still has hair.