“Apple’s share of desktop and notebook sales online and through brick-and-mortar stores in May rose to 13% from 11.6% in April [in the U.S.], according to The NPD Group,” Antone Gonsalves reports for InformationWeek.
“Apple notebooks and desktops in May continued to take market share away from Windows PCs in the consumer market,” Gonsalves reports.
“Apple’s share of desktop and notebook sales online and through brick-and-mortar stores rose to 13% from 11.6% in April, according to The NPD Group. Apple notebook sales rose to 14.3% of overall purchases from 12.5%, while desktop sales inched up to 10.4% from 10.2%,” Gonsalves reports.
“In May, the overall notebook market grew by 40% over the same month a year ago. Apple outpaced overall market growth with a year-to-year jump of 65%,” Gonsalves reports. “Windows-based notebooks saw a 37% increase in sales… Desktop sales in general were far less than notebooks, and neither Apple nor Windows PC vendors showed much progress.”
Full article here.
Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld (Apple sells one of every seven notebooks), “Apple Inc. got help from the update to its MacBook laptops to push its share of the laptop market up nearly two points in May, to 14.3%, a research firm said today. ‘Whenever Apple gets a new product out, they get a nice bounce,’ said Stephen Baker, an analyst at NPD Group Inc. According to NPD’s data, the laptop ‘bounce’ was 14% month-over-month. ‘”Desktops sales are declining, but [Apple’s] are declining a little less than others.'”
“Baker also said he expects Apple will soon revamp its primary desktop line, the iMac, a move that Apple-centric bloggers predicted would happen at last week’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), but are now forecasting for end of July or early August,” Keizer reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Robert” for the heads up.]
This is good but how do you account for the people who by the macs and then use them to run windows on them?
Opps… Meant ‘buy’ them…
Poor winusers! are they becoming a dying breed?
I think not! though they have been partially brain dead for too long!
@ Mark,
Partially brain dead from the Balmy ones OS!
Mark,
Embrace first, then extinguish.
Mark,
You don’t have to account for them. It’s a small, irrelevant number. The fact is they bought a Mac. You can be sure that Microsoft gets credit for a lot of PCs that are running Linux.
“This is good but how do you account for the people who by the macs and then use them to run windows on them?”
A sale is a sale dude. Apple isn’t sharing any money with MS for those people that use them for dual boot. Thing is, how do you account for it once they stop using their Windows security blanket and switch to OSX?
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/06/22/ibm.on.iphone.security/
Check this out! IBM’s take on thi iphone’s security.
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Comment from: Mark
“This is good but how do you account for the people who by the macs and then use them to run windows on them?”
You don’t ‘account’ for them, you pray for them.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/062007-microsoft-we-patch-faster-than.html?fsrc=netflash-rss
And more FUD!!
<i>This is good but how do you account for the people who by the macs and then use them to run windows on them? —Mark
If they bought a Mac, they’re curious about the Mac. To run Windows, all you need is any old crappy pc. Even to install Windows, they get their first look at the stunning OS X interface. Sooner or later, logging into Windows starts to look like the shabby mess it has always been.
Comment from: Camel’s Milk Drinker
“http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/06/22/ibm.on.iphone.security/
Check this out! IBM’s take on thi iphone’s security.”
Why? They didn’t say a thing other than a lot of people will try to hack the iPhone. How is that news worthy or interesting?
@Mark
This is good but how do you account for the people who by the macs and then use them to run windows on them
you account them like me, I switched, cause I could, (and thought I needed) to run windows. 9 months later, I only use windows IE, to check my website when I make a change (that I made myself using iWeb, that more than paid more my Mac)
Like Fred said
Embrace first, then extinguish.
It would be interesting to see, how many switched because they COULD run windows, and how many of them use windows now?
http://www.stthomasexcursions.com/
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=53230&page=1
Read this & Enjoy!!!!!
You missed the point! they say it is going to be very hard to launch an attack against it!
@ mark
I hear that both of them are doing fine in the new “quiet” wing of the facility…
Mark,
It has been said before, but the main reason these people bought a Mac is to get away from Windows, use iLife and enjoy great hardware design.
Some may use Windows for a program here or there, to check/proof a web design, but outside of that, they will use Mac OS as their primary OS, and many don’t ever install Windows, even though they thought they would need to.
For those people that buy a Mac just for the hardware, then install Windows on it, completely blowing away OS X – I would guess we can count those people on one hand – a hand who’s missing a few digits.
With the upcoming sale of the iPhone next week, I imagine the OSX platform and Apple products will only continue to increase market share. Apple is really on a mission here, with its full assault on increasing its user base with OSX, desktop and mobile computers, convergent consumer electronic products (iPods, iTV, iPhones), software, retail, server market, services, etc. Did somebody say ultra-portables?
Sorry, Zune Tang but it’s true. It only gets better!
i have worked over 23 years for this (since januari 84), i’m so happy, a child’s dream come true, and a right one, not a partizan.
There’s something funny about these statistics. The most recent market share stats we saw (a couple of months ago) had Apple at about 5% of the US market, and a little less of the world market.
These are so much higher that they must be calculated differently. I wonder, do they include 3rd party retailers, such as Walmart? That’s an area where the big PC manufacturers are much stronger than Apple.
Am I missing something?
“This is good but how do you account for the people who by the macs and then use them to run windows on them?”
A sale is a sale dude.
A sale is a sale, yet we demand figures on the number of Vista PC’s that are being upgraded to XP. Talking out of both sides of our mouths earns no points.
There has to be a way to get straight numbers on what’s actually in use…
@Jake
i believe that the previous stats are about the total base. that is of every 100 computers 4.7% are Macs.
these are new sales. of every computer sold today, 13% are Macs.
make sense?
MW: ask and i shall “provide” an answer. even if it is wrong….
NOBODY buys a Mac for the sole purpose of running Windows on it. If it weren’t for Parallels and Boot camp I would have to BUY a PC to run the Windows programs that are occasionally necessary. So, while I may have to still own a copy of Windows to run on my Mac, I definitely no longer need a PC. This study is about hardware sales, not OS usage. The impact of running Windows on Macs is providing tremendous incentive for their purchase.
i swear if i ever see someone use that tedious ’embrace and extinguish’ shit again I will scream.
its just stupid and puerile and fanciful, you may as well say sell out and extinguish.
“A sale is a sale, yet we demand figures on the number of Vista PC’s that are being upgraded to XP. Talking out of both sides of our mouths earns no points.”
You missed the point. The point is, if Apple sells a machine, it almost makes no difference what they do with it since Apple is primarily a hardware company. They could use it as a doorstop for all I care the bottom line is, they bought it from Apple and the money (thus the word ‘market’ in market share) goes into Apple’s coffers.
And “god delusional” if you don’t like the phrase embrace and extinguish, then you must not really understand the strategy Apple is employing, because that’s exactly what it is. Embrace the competition’s technology for the purpose of ultimately extinguishing it. Like it or not, thats what it is.